Conference theme: "Institutions and socio-economic changes: Italy and Europe in the international context in a historical perspective". AISPE and SISE invite scholars to offer their contribution regarding the role played by the institu-tions (understood in a broad sense: public, private,...

Possible questions to be addressed are: - The relationship between economic inequality and other inequalities in historical or comparative perspective; - The role of multilateral organizations in dealing with global and domestic inequality; - New assessments of inequality trends in specific...

The topic of the XV Aispe Conference is: “Towards a Comparative History of Economic Thought”. The Conference aims mainly at raising a series of correlated questions, which are both historical and methodological. Is it possible, and desirable, to write a comparative history of economic...

During the three days of the Conference almost one hundred papers were presented in parallel sessions either in Italian or in English on various subjects, among which: growth in Asian countries, corporate governance, China, Russia, theories of the firm, transition economies, industrial and...

Investments are the gamble on the future of a community. Their benefits span over the present. They stimulate aggregate demand. They have positive effects on expectations as well as spin-offs in terms of knowledge and innovation. Their benefits also project into the future adding productive...

Aispe invites historians of economic thought, economic historians, economists and interested scholars to present proposals for papers and/or sessions along the lines listed below, or on others relevant to the subject of the conference: a) Power and markets in an historical perspective:...

The AISPE invites historians of economic thought, economic historians, economists, and interested scholars to submit proposals for papers and/or sessions on the topics listed below or on others connected with the theme of the conference: a) Economists and the First World War (on the occasion of...

The XII AISPE conference will revolve around the relation between facts and thought in economic historical research, looking for an answer to the question if it might be possible to contaminate the history of economic thought with economic history and vice versa, producing scientifically...

Environment, energy, health, food safety and food security are among the most important nowadays issues linked with the challenge of a sustainable development of the so called bio-economy. Agriculture is a core sector of the bio-economy but the latter includes other important industries...

Proposals for sessions or submissions of papers concerning any aspect of the history of economic thought are welcome. The special theme of the conference is "Economic development and social cohesion: converging goals?".