Classical economic today. Essays in honour of Alessandro Roncaglia

Anthem Press eBooks, 2018

Classical Economics Today ii ANTHEM OTHER CANON ECONOMICS The Anthem Other Canon Economics series is a collaboration between Anthem Press and The Other Canon Foundation. The Other Canon-also described as "reality economics"-studies the economy as a real object rather than as the behavior of a model economy based on core axioms, assumptions and techniques. The series includes both classical and contemporary works in this tradition, spanning evolutionary, institutional and post-Keynesian economics, the history of economic thought and economic policy, economic sociology and technology governance, and works on the theory of uneven development and in the tradition of the German historical school.

2014

I say, in common with the rest of the Greeks, that the Athenians are wise. Now I observe, when we are collected for the Assembly, and the city has to deal with an affair of building, we send for builders to advise us on what is proposed to be built; and when it is a case of laying down a ship, we send for shipwrights; and so in all other matters which are considered learnable and teachable: but if anyone else, whom the people do not regard as a craftsman, attempts to advise them, no matter how handsome and wealthy and well-born he may be, not one of these things induces them to accept him; they merely laugh him to scorn and shout him down, until either the speaker retires from his attempt, overborne by the clamour, or the tipstaves pull him from his place or turn him out altogether by order of the chair. Such is their procedure in matters which they consider professional. But when they have to deliberate on something connected with the administration of the State, the man who rises ...

A Brief History of Economic Thought

The evolution of economic thought can be traced back from its beginnings in classical antiquity up to the present day. In this book, Professor Alessandro Roncaglia offers a clear, concise and updated version of his award-winning The Wealth of Ideas, studying the development of economic thought through perspectives and debates on the economy and society over time. With chapters on prominent economic theorists, including William Petty, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes, as well as on other important figures and key debates of each period, Roncaglia critically evaluates the foundations of the marginalist-neoclassical (scarcity-utility) approach in comparison to the Classical-Keynes approach. A comprehensive guide to the history of economic thought, this book will be of value not only to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying economic thought but also to any readers desiring to study how economics has evolved up to the present day. alessandro roncaglia is Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Editor of PSL Quarterly Review and Moneta e Credito, and was previously President of the Società Italiana degli Economisti. His numerous publications, translated into various languages, include The Wealth of Ideas, also published by Cambridge University Press (2005).

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2018

This book is a survey of the contributions by Italian economists who studied and worked at Oxford and/or Cambridge between the 1950s and the 1990s. It is something less than a systematic Who's Who of the entire roll call of approximately 300 hundred economists who went to Oxbridge during this span of time (100 to Oxford, at least 200 to Cambridgethe estimate is provided by the authors), because not all of them eventually found a place in the story. But it is also much more than a Who's Who, as it tells the story of "the circulation and cross-fertilization of ideas" between Italy and Oxbridge, tracing the main sources of inspiration and the further developments of a number of economic concepts. The focus is on pure economic theory. Personal, institutional and policy implications are not altogether excluded, but remain in the background. The structure of the book centres upon two main chapters (Chapters 2 and 3), on Oxford and Cambridge, respectively, preceded by a brief introduction (Chapter 1) and followed by two short chapters (Chapters 4 and 5) on the celebration of Oxbridge scientists by Italian economists and institutions and on the influence of Oxbridge-Italian economists within the Italian scientific community and civil society. The authors left for themselves only a brief chapter (Chapter 6), just two pages long, to draw some "Conclusions". The early experience of Pasinetti at Oxford, until he moved to Cambridge in 1961, offers a good starting point for the story in the opening pages of Chapter 2, where the controversy with Solow on the analysis of technical progress and the resonance that this controversy and Pasinetti's parallel work on cycles and growth had in Cambridge are briefly outlined. Much space is then duly dedicated to John Hicks and his (and his wife's) special relations with Italy. However, it is on the intellectual, rather than personal relations between Hicks and his Italian students and friends that the authors dwell. The role of Francesco Masera, and of the Bank of Italy's Servizio studi, in creating a link with Linacre College is briefly mentioned. But much more

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2004