The Paretian tradition has been one of the most important research strands in the interwar period in Italy. It included a small but strong group of economists, among them the notable Luigi Amoroso and Giulio La Volpe. The more ambitious project carried out by the Paretians was the dynamization...

This paper aims to highlight the main features of Amoroso's reflections on macroeconomic dynamics to which he dedicated a large part of his scientific activity. He developed an original theory of business cycle and he formulated a dynamic generalisation of the Paretian theory of general economic...

Economics education is essential in all nations to prepare students for the changing world economy. The paper offers a description and an assessment of how secondary school economics is currently provided and how it ha changed over the last decades in Italy. The analysis covered some topics:...

Introduction -- 1. Luigi Amoroso's early contributions -- 2. The birth of microeconomics. The Lezioni of 1921 -- 3. The ideological turn: Amoroso as corporatist economist -- 4. Amoroso and the first revolution of imperfect competition -- 5. From Fisher to Keynes. A mathematical business cycle...

In the mid 1980s there was a remarkable revival of interest in growth theory and once again this became a very active area of macroeconomic research. A relevant strand of this approach is characterized by the departure from the usual assumption of diminishing returns of capital or, more...

This paper aims to highlight the main features of Amoroso's reflections on macroeconomic dynamics to which he dedicated a large part of his scientific activity. He developed an original theory of business cycle and he formulated a dynamic generalisation of the Paretian theory of general economic...