The rise of classical political economy has certainly marked a change in the way economic theory dealt with monetary issues, as it combined the microeconomic knowledge of the problems of metallic circulation with a macroeconomic analysis of the causes of monetary disturbances (balance of...

Commodity markets are characterized by high price volatility, inefficient resource allocation and the cyclical reappearance of excessive surpluses and shortages. Historically, these problems and their relevant socio-economic implications have been tackled by means of protectionist measures at...

In this paper the authors present the findings of their research on a vast database containing the relevant information on the scientific characteristics of the three cohorts of assistant professors recruited in Italy in the early 1980s, the 1990s and the first few years of the new millennium....

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Before the two world wars -- 1 The food weapon: milestones in the history of a concept (17th-19th centuries) -- 2 Why the wars? And how to pay for them? A comparison between Hume...