The conventional version of Austrian business cycle theory focuses on a temporary imbalance between natural and monetary rates of interest. When, because of the role of monetary authorities in defining the monetary rate, the two values are in a situation of imbalance, the resulting expansion...

While in the early 1930s Keynes and Hayek were the major figures in a heated academic debate about money and capital, in which Keynes also and especially involved the Italian Piero Sraffa, it might seem at first sight that the Austrian economist set aside an organic demolition of the ideas...

Focusing on the urban context of Verona (a major city in the Venice Republic) during the XVIII century, the paper aim to clarify if, and in which measure, the cost of living of the employed population changed along the century. Instead of simply analyzing salaries and prices, the Author built a...

Italian Abstract: Scopo del presente saggio e` ripercorrere le teorie economiche elaborate dal giovane Guido Menegazzi durante gli anni Trenta, al fine di evidenziare come in questo periodo si formino i fondamenti del pensiero che andranno a costituire i capisaldi della piu` matura elaborazione...

Italian Abstract: Quello degli intacchi e` un problema che ha riguardato la vita del Monte di Pieta` , ma non solo di quello scaligero, sin dai suoi esordi. Si tratta di illegalita` attinenti propriamente i servigi svolti dai ministri piu` direttamente coinvolti nella gestione del banco di...