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The neoliberal economic and political practice is still worldwide present. But deregulation is no longer very popular. New rules are imposed. Easy consumer credit and excessive issues of financial liabilities are recognized as directly responsible for the crisis. Neoliberal policies ultimately...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze Claudio Napoleoni's opinions on the epistemic status of labour and work in Marxian thought. Particular attention is paid to illustrate the position taken by Napoleoni as regards Lucio Colletti's idea of an identity of abstract labour and alienated labour in...

This is an essay on the concept of causality in economics, both in an ontological and in a gnoseological sense. That is both as a 'causa essendi' and as a 'causa cognoscendi'.

This article is an obituary, in memoriam of professor Claudio Napoleoni, an economist and politician.

The paper deals with the problem of the critical appraisal of the economic theory of fascist corporatism and of the place such doctrine should be allowed in the history of Italian economic thought. The ideological, political and economic beliefs of the various tendencies of corporatism are...

This is a review-article on a book edited by M. Guidi and L. Michelini on marginalism and socialism in Italy during the liberal age 1870-1925.

The paper deals with a fundamental issue in the history of economic thought: the alleged separability in the classical analysis of distinct and sequential logical stages. It will be recalled that the contested idea of an analytical separation of the theory of value (relative prices), the theory...

This is a memorial article to celebrate the Italian journal "La Rivista Trimestrale", edited in Rome by two critical communist scholars, Claudio Napoleoni and Franco Rodano, in the period 1962-1970.

This is an article on the economic policy in Italy today, written in a left-wing liberal perspective. It deals with the present logic of reproduction of capital, aimed at maximizing the extraction and private appropriation of surplus-value.