Italian Abstract: Per giustificare l’autorità e la validità della scienza economica, gli economisti sono spesso ricorsi all’argomento che le leggi e i postulati di questo sapere sono verità scientifiche, nel senso di verità empiriche, logiche o autoevidenti. Tuttavia, questo discorso, in...

The present study seeks to extend the depth and scope of a very useful earlier study published in 2004. Using that study as a starting point and using more recent data [for the year 2009], this study seeks to provide a broader and more in-depth perspective on the role and relative contribution...

Italian Abstract: Mosca, Ruffini ed Einaudi vennero da molti riconosciuti come “Maestri di libertà”, soprattutto in virtù della loro strenua difesa della libertà durante il consolidamento del regime fascista. In questo articolo miro a ricostruire l’idea di libertà che emerse nelle loro...

According to Sohn-Rethel there is a “secret identity” between commodity form and thought form. Commodity exchange is a real abstraction – embodied in money – and constitutes a social a priori which reflects itself in the conceptual abstraction, i.e., in the abstract thought typical of...

A közgazdaságtan áldása és csapása, hogy mint alkalmazott tudomány" ott jelenik meg, ahol a legritkább az egyetértés, a legkisebb a társadalmi konszenzus, a legnagyobb a valószínűsége a félreértelmezésnek és torzításnak, ahol a leghangosabbak a féligazságok és...

Luigi Bodio (1840-1920) was an Italian economist and statistician, considered one of the founders of the Italian Statistics. He was one of the 21 founding members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1885, ISI Director-General during the first 20 years (1885-1905) and ISI...

The article introduces the special issue on Paolo Sylos Labini's contributions published in "Astrolabio", the Italian review founded and edited by Ferruccio Parri in 1963. The editor, guest editor of the current issue, explains the rationale of his selection of articles and discusses the...

Die ordonomische These, dass man von Walter Eucken als einem Klassiker der Ordnungsethik auch heute noch wichtige Lektionen lernen kann, wird in diesem Beitrag in fuenf Schritten entwickelt. Der erste Argumentationsschritt identifiziert einige Rezeptionsschwierigkeiten, die einem angemessenen...

The paper is a survey of the Aumann's and Schelling's main contributions to game theory. For Aumann, a distinction is made between his works devoted to cooperative and non cooperative games. As for Schelling, pure coordination games and focal points are underlined on one hand, and the collective...

In the history of economic thought Walter Eucken is mostly known for his impact in establishing the Social Market Economy in post-war Germany. Even though there is a growing interest in his ideas especially from an Austrian and a Constitutional Economics perspective, his influence on the...