Upon leaving Tuscany to become Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II left some notes (1790) that prove very interesting to today's economist. They show how a holistic approach to the socio-economic characteristics of a region should always be considered, starting from a people's spirit, or...

En 1531 el jurista italiano Andrea Alciato (1492-1550) publicó la obra Emblematum liber que tuvo una gran influencia en toda la Europa de la Edad Moderna. El trabajo de Alciato estaba compuesto por una antología de textos poéticos que estaban ilustrados y que a su vez contenían cada uno de...

The present paper aims to disseminate the impact of globalization on the nation-state throughout the history. The research objective consists in the reviewing of the assertion of the globalization phenomenon and the conflicts it stirred at the national level by reasons related to cultural,...

Bu makalede W. Petty’nin (1623-1687) iktisadi düşüncesi, merkantilist iktisadi düşünce ile ilişkisi bağlamında değerlendirilmektedir. Çalışmanın temel konusu, genel olarak, W. Petty’nin iktisadi düşünceler tarihi içindeki konumu hakkında, özel olarak ise onun merkantilist...

The methods England took to restructure its public debt during the British Financial Revolution consisted of improving liquidity. Accordingly, the State sought to reestablish its solvability by basing its debt on tax revenues as well as to homogenize it, reduce its cost and improve the operation...

The methods England took to restructure its public debt during the British Financial Revolution consisted of improving liquidity. Accordingly, the State sought to reestablish its solvability by basing its debt on tax revenues as well as to homogenize it, reduce its cost and improve the...

From 1759 to 1762, François Quesnay had systematically appealed to an obscure physiocrat, Charles Richard de Butré, when he had to make a numerical estimate or to do a nonelementary computation. In the present article, we use two important unpublished writings by Butré to discuss and assess...

The intellectual histories of economics and evolutionary biology are closely intertwined because both subjects deal with living, complex, evolving systems. Because the subject matter is similar, contemporary evolutionary thought has much to offer to economics. In recent decades theoretical...

Although the phenomenon of competition is fundamental of the economic theory and policy, the scientists have not yet achieved the consensus concerning the kind of competition which should be protected. Contemporary researchers striving to find the answer to this question rely on their...