Since the late 1950s Albert Ando and Franco Modigliani were engaged with the study of economic growth and business fluctuations with the aim of overcoming the separation between micro and macroeconomics and to integrate Solow’s growth theory with the study of economic cycles. This research...

This paper draws comparisons between the articles collected in a recent volume edited by Pecchi and Piga dealing with Keynes’s long period considerations set out in the essay Economic possibilities for our grandchildren. Comments concentrate on two of Keynes’s principal forecasts,...

This article reconstructs Franco Modigliani’s and Herbert Simon’s close collaboration over the 1950s on implementation of a decision theory under uncertainty that partly contributed to the genesis of behavioral economics and rational expectations theory. Their collaboration reveals how the...

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),...

This note discusses Modigliani's and Sylos Labini's unemployment theory starting from a long letter Modigliani wrote to his friend and colleague, commenting the provisional edition of "Oligopolio e Progresso Tecnico" (1956). While in his influential article review (1958) Modigliani especially...

This note discusses Modigliani's and Sylos Labini's unemployment theory starting from a long letter Modigliani wrote to his friend and colleague, commenting the provisional edition of "Oligopolio e Progresso Tecnico" (1956). While in his influential article review (1958) Modigliani especially...