Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William VanLear Title: Copernicus and the Quantity Theory of Money Abstract: This paper examines Nicholas Copernicus? monetary thinking to ascertain whether he is an early expositor of the quantity theory of money. The paper reviews the historical setting of the 1500s, considers the history of economic thought that pertains to the quantity theory of money, and considers prior translations and interpretations of Copernicus? manuscript "On the Minting of Money" with our own translation. The paper finds that Copernicus? monetary thinking is noteworthy for associating monetary policy instability with various economic effects, but he is not a quantity theorist or an advocate of policy positions associated with quantity theorists. Classification-JEL: B11, B31, N1 Keywords: Note: Pages:5-20 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55397&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Persefoni Tsaliki Author-Name: Lefteris Tsoulfidis Title: Classical Economists, Marx and Marshall on Dominant Technique Abstract: The focal point of this paper is the notion of the dominant technique and its treatment in the theories of value and distribution. Our argument is that neither the average nor the minimum cost production are necessarily identified with the dominant technique in an industry. The dominant technique is in fact approximated with the types of capital, where expansion or contraction of accumulation actually takes place, and in this sense, the dominant is perceived as marginal technique used by firms entering (or leaving), and, therefore, expanding (or contracting) industry?s supply. Such a concept is absolutely consistent with the classical theory of value and is at odds with the neoclassical (not necessarily Marshall?s) theory despite of the adoption of marginal analysis. Classification-JEL: B10, D40, O30 Keywords: Note: Pages:21-36 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55398&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Michelagnoli Title: The Shaping of Incomes Policy in the Eighties. The Contribution of Ezio Tarantelli Abstract: This paper aims at providing some historiographical perspectives on the shaping of incomes policies in Italy in the eighties. It chiefly takes into account the contribution of the economist Ezio Tarantelli and his innovative approach to the accomplishment of the economic policy in Italy. The paper will eventually focus on how the potential benefits underlying the policies he supported can actually be considered a mislaid opportunity. Classification-JEL: B22; B31; E24; J01 Keywords: Note: Pages:37-56 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55399&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Covi Title: Puzzling Out The First Oil Shock. History, Politics and the Macroeconomy in a Forty-Year Retrospective Abstract: The paper aims to understand if the First Oil Shock has produced long-term effects to the international economic system and its fundamentals. Herein a historical perspective will be used as an interpretative tool in order to discern the causes of the events of 1973 and its long-term consequences on the world economy during the four decades following the First Oil Shock. The circumstances and the causes that led to the shock, the events during the conflict, and the changes in the structure of the energy market, play a key role for the analysis and will be investigated according to the historical specificity. In the end, a statistical analysis is developed in order to shed light on the oil price GDP growth conundrum, to discover that for economic growth, volatility matters more than the average price of oil. Classification-JEL: E52 - P28 - O11 - Q32 - Q33 - Q43 Keywords: Note: Pages:57-91 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55400&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: n.d. Title: Glimpses of Henry Schultz in Mussolini?s 1934 Italy Abstract: Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Henry Schultz spent a sabbatical year in Europe in 1933/34 working on his forthcoming monograph The Theory and Measurement of Demand (Schultz 1938). During the year, he found time to travel to 6-7 countries, meeting economists and other scholars. This article describes and comments on his seven weeks? visit to Italy in March-April 1934. The glimpses of Henry Schultz in Italy are provided by his own brief diary notes. He met with virtually all the leading econometricians of the time, and was interested in the stand taken by Italian economists on Mussolini?s corporative state, as well as in the situation of the Jews under Fascism. Classification-JEL: B31, D11 Keywords: Note: Pages:93-113 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55401&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Comitato di Redazione Title: Book reviews Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:115-151 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55402&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivo Maes Title: Alexandre Lamfalussy (1929 - 2015) Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:153-158 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55403&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002007 Number: 7 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Comitato di Redazione Title: Aurelio Macchioro (1915-2015) Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:159-162 Volume: 2015/2 Year: 2015 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=55404&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2015-002008 Number: 8