Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith's notion of value, his understanding of the economic...

The article is part of the special issue of the journal on Charles P. Kindleberger (CPK). It is here reported one of CPK's articles published in Moneta e Credito (vol. 33 n. 131, settembre 1980, pp. 253-58). The article presents a short piece of scientific autobiography by Kindleberger, and it...

During his honours research on an index of industrial production at the University of Western Australia, Salter gained an understanding of the composite commodity theorem. The applied work on the index of industrial production provided him with the analytic foundations for his two famous...

Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith's notion of value, his understanding of the economic...

In the context of the special issue on Joseph Steindl, we offer here a republication of Steindl's contribution to the series "Recollections of Eminent Economics", originally published in vol. 37 n. 148 of "Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review". With the series of Recollections the journal...

In the context of the special issue on Joseph Steindl, we offer here a republication of Steindl's contribution to the series “Recollections of Eminent Economics”, originally published in vol. 37 n. 148 of “Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review”. With the series of Recollections the...

Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith’s theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith’s notion of value, his understanding of the...

The aim of this paper is to explain what philosophical commitments drove mainstream professional economists to understand their own discipline as leaving no space for ethics (including virtue) between, say, 1887 and 1971. In particular, it is argued that economics embraced a technocratic...

The article is part of the special issue of the journal on Charles P. Kindleberger (CPK). It is here reported one of CPK's articles published in Moneta e Credito (vol. 33 n. 131, settembre 1980, pp. 253-58). The article presents a short piece of scientific autobiography by Kindleberger, and it...

Economics in Switzerland: What has changed over the last 20 years? Swiss economics and economists have opened up vis-à-vis the rest of the world to a considerable extent. Today, the degree of internationalisation and research orientation is markedly higher than it was 20 years ago....