Paolo Sylos Labini's Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress (1957) is considered one of the major contributions to entry-prevention models, especially after Franco Modigliani's famous formalization. Nonetheless, Modigliani neglected Sylos Labini's major aim when reviewing his work (1958),...

According to Bhagwati the really fundamental innovation in the oligopoly theory came with the realization that oligopoly must deal with ‘potential' competition as distinct from ‘actual' competition. Paolo Sylos Labini's "Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress" (1957) is considered one of...

Paolo Sylos Labini's Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress (1957) is considered one of the major contributions to entry-prevention models, especially after Franco Modigliani's famous formalization. Nonetheless, Modigliani neglected Sylos Labini's major aim when reviewing his work (1958),...

In "Models of my Life" Simon reminds that it was not a coincidence if Carnegie-Mellon has been the incubator of the two antithetical schools of thought: Behavioral Economics and the Rational Expectations theory. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct Franco Modigliani's contribution (as well as...

The article reconstructs how the Phillips curve was embedded into the Fed-MIT-Penn macroeconometric model of the late 1960s. My aim is to integrate James Forder's (2014) narrative about the Phillips curve myth by looking at the macroeconometric model that should have been devoted to guide the...

The paper reconstructs the origin of the large-scale macroeconometric model Modigliani and Ando built for the Fed (1965-1970), and discusses its place within the monetary debate of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly with reference to the Keynesian and Monetarist controversy. The main purpose of...

The paper investigates how the Fed-MIT-Penn model incorporated the Phillips curve within its larger system of equations, after Milton Friedman's Presidential Address. Forder (2014) reconstructs the history of the Phillips curve's parabola arguing that the standard narrative is a myth; a myth he...