LIBRI DI MARIO POMINI

The theories of progressive income taxation developed in the Italian debate of the last century have been discussed in depth in a review article by Domenican-tonio Fausto (2008). Italian economists have taken an active part in the debate on the progressive taxation of income and wealth. In general, despite a few oppo-nents, the idea of progressive taxation is agreed upon for political and social rea-sons. In this broad debate on progressivity developed in Italy, there is also an ana-lytical path that Fausto’s article does not consider. The first mathematical contri-bution on this topic was put forward by Tullio Martello in his polemic book against the progressive tax, La progressività in teoria e in pratica (1895). The debate was concluded in the 1950s by a mathematical economist and follower of Pareto, Raf-faele D’Addario. D’Addario is worth considering because he explicitly introduced the revenue curve. The decreasing part is well known today as the Laffer curve.

La ricognizione storica sviluppata in questo volume si inoltra, con una prospettiva interdisciplinare, nei molteplici problemi che hanno riguardato le montagne venete nell’ultimo secolo, dalla Grande guerra alla tempesta Vaia del 2018. Il testo, corredato da immagini, intende raggiungere non solo gli specialisti della disciplina storica, ma anche il mondo della scuola con l’obiettivo primario di rafforzare la conoscenza e conservare la “memoria” delle montagne, salvaguardando la natura ed educando al rispetto dell’ambiente.

In this article, we focus on the figure of Eraldo Fossati, He was a protagonist of the development of Italian economic thought in the central decades of the last century. At the beginning he tried to dynamize the Paretian theory of general equilibrium. In the first phase he emphasized the role of true uncertainty following the Austrian tradition. Ended a short corporatist parenthesis, after the second world war he supported the Keynesian theory and made an original proposal to reconcile Pareto and Keynes, considering the latter not as a revolutionary economist but rather as an innovator who furnished new tools to understanding the real workings of contemporary economic systems with their chronic unemployment. In fact, after the Second World War Fossati was one of the main exponents of the Keynesian turn in Italy.

Il volume prende in esame, in prospettiva storica, la figura e l’opera di Angelo Tomelleri, presidente della Regione Veneto nelle prime due legislature (dal 1970 al 1980). Il libro, che contiene anche numerose testimonianze di colleghi e collaboratori, offre un bilancio complessivo dell’esperienza decennale del Presidente, che ha avuto il compito di impostare e consolidare una “macchina regionale in azione”, destinata poi a proseguire la sua vita istituzionale fra vicende locali e nazionali.

This volume contains twenty papers presented at the IX AISPE Conference. The conference examined the theory and practice of “economic policy” during the 20th century, focusing on both historical aspects and present experiences. Although already introduced by the mercantilist doctrines and classical theories, during the past century economic policy acquired the full status of a discipline endowed with its own theoretical corpus and a wide range of applications.