Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rog?ro Arthmar Author-Name: Michael McLure Title: A. C. Pigou and the ?Real Purpose? of the 1924-25 Committee on the Currency and Bank of England Note Issues Abstract: Brian Reddaway has argued that the title for the Committee on the Currency and Bank Notes served as a smokescreen to hide its real purpose of advising the government on Britain?s return to gold. When A. C. Pigou was invited by Sir Otto Niemeyer to serve on that Committee, there was no mention of gold. Only the title of the Committee was mentioned in the letter. The objective of this study is to establish whether Pigou appreciated the real purpose of the Committee or whether he was misled by the title of the Committee that he was invited to serve on. Classification-JEL: B13, E52 Keywords: Note: Pages:5-19 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56666&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesco Farina Title: The Path Dependency of Poverty Reduction Policies Abstract: The evolutionary paths followed by poverty reduction policies in the advanced and in the developing countries have been quite different. The paper endorses the view whereby the higher is the initial level of income inequality in a country, the less the subsequent GDP growth is bound to "trickle down" to the poor. Due to the perverse interplay between growth, income inequality and inequality of opportunity, the tight correlation between material and non-material conditions of life often prevents low-income countries to reduce the size and the intensity of poverty. After the low-income countries? involvement in globalization, the construction of indices of multidimensional poverty is taken as decisive by international organizations to carefully design anti-poverty aid policies by taking into account the specific characteristics of the area of intervention. Classification-JEL: I31, I38, D63,P36 Keywords: Note: Pages:21-42 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56667&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuela Mosca Title: Antonio de Viti de Marco as a Political Commentator in the Daily Press Abstract: The Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco is well known as the founder of the pure theory of Public Finance, and as one of the inspirators of Public Choice. However, outside Italy nothing is known about his political commitment, an aspect that was truly important for him and closely linked to his scientific work. This paper explores his collaboration with daily newspapers in the context of early 20th century Italy, in order to project information beyond Italy?s borders about his political role. Classification-JEL: B1, B31, D72, F13, H3, R11 Keywords: Note: Pages:43-63 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56668&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Filip Birsen Title: The Converging and Diverging Views of Wilhelm von Humboldt and John Stuart Mill on the Subjects of Self-development and the Role of the State Abstract: This article shows that a number of the key points expressed by Mill in On Liberty (1859) were very similar to many ideas that Humboldt presented in The Limits of State Action (1792). In fact, it was by Humboldt that Mill gained an appreciation for the concept of self-development. The primary goal of his paper, however, is to find significant differences in their respective ideas on the role of the state as a way to facilitate the development of individuality. It also claims that these differences can be mainly attributed to Mill having had the opportunity to directly observe the negative impacts of industrial capitalism, which led him to defend a positive state role in counteracting them. Classification-JEL: B12; B15. Keywords: Note: Pages:65-83 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56669&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Comitato di Redazione Title: Book reviews Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:85-118 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56670&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roberto Scazzieri Title: Political Economy as Intellectual History: Pier Luigi Porta (1945-2016) Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:119-132 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56671&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Dardi Title: Tiziano Raffaelli 1950-2016 Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:133-139 Volume: 2016/1 Year: 2016 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56672&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2016-001007 Number: 7