This paper provides a brief exposition of financial markets in Post Keynesian economics. Inspired by John Maynard Keynes's path-breaking insights into the role of liquidity and finance in "monetary production economies" Post Keynesian economics offers a refreshing alternative to mainstream...

This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual circumstances. The economic literature on abortion policy is broad, studying abortion reforms that have...

In this chapter we argue that contemporary Democracies undergo intense political processes of competitive transformation, in such a way that they can be analyzed as evolving complex systems. We draw upon Schumpeterian evolutionary economics, to explore how local and global interactions between...

Italian Abstract: L'autore condivide alcuni ricordi sulla relazione professionale e privata tra Paolo Sylos Labini e Vito Laterza, suo commissario editore presso la casa editrice Laterza. Testo del discorso tenuto alla conferenza "Paolo Sylos Labini e la politica delle riforme", tenutasi...

This paper offers a historical account of competition theories in economics. It shows that most, if not all, of these theories do not offer winning strategy. It encourages students of economics to search for new, definite but honest winning strategy in competition