Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sattwick Dey Biswas Title: From Freehold to Social Function: Revisiting Bromley?s Rousseau?s Revenge in the Indian Context Abstract: This paper revisits Daniel W. Bromley?s claims about Rousseau?s Revenge through the longue dur?e of India?s land regimes to rethink the place of property in the history of economic thought. Bromley?s provocation, developed largely within an Anglo-Ameri-can property rights trajectory, frames the contemporary weakening of the freehold estate as a rediscovery of land?s social function. Considering this provocation, the Indian case reveals a historically distinct, but not exceptional, configuration in which land was rarely organised as absolute exclusionary private property, but instead governed through lay-ered institutions and social arrangements of caste, community, religious authority, colo-nial law, and postcolonial state building. Drawing on South Asian historiography and historical institutionalism, the paper treats the social function of land as an analytical category in which obligation, use, and public purpose coexist alongside title. In doing so, it challenges apparent universalist narratives of property that assume a unilinear progres-sion of land regimes from common tenure to private ownership. The paper offers a con-ceptual provocation for a more pluralist understanding of property, governance, and le-gitimacy beyond Euro-American frameworks. Classification-JEL: B11, B31, B52 Keywords: Note: Pages:5-27 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80096&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001001 Number: 1 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=80096 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luca Sandon? Title: The ?Single point? Wage Indexation and Inflation Control: The Lively Debate in Italy (1975-85) Abstract: This paper examines the Italian academic debate on inflation control after the 1975 single point wage indexation reform of the working collective general agreements through the 1985 popular referendum, which confirmed the revision of this act by Bettino Craxi?s government. This study aims to highlight how competing schools of economic thought ? neoliberal, heterodox leftwing, liberal, and reformist ? influence policy proposals, reflecting different political philosophies and social class allegiances. Consequently, this work focuses on key events, including the Modigliani controversy and Ezio Tarantelli?s predetermination proposal. The inflation interpretations are contextualised in the political, cultural, social, and historical scenarios in which they were elaborated. Finally, this study attempts to explain why the Italian economic culture rejected the idea of inflation as a consequence of monetary supply and emphasised inflation as a costpush phenomenon. Classification-JEL: B2, J38, N14, P11 Keywords: Note: Pages:29-53 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80097&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001002 Number: 2 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=80097 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Virginia Anastasia Fournari Title: The Reception of Bretton Woods Decisions through Unofficial Expertise: The Economist M. Goudi and the Greek Reconstruction Abstract: The paper aims to introduce into international economic developments the less discussed dimension of the unofficial expert for the understanding and significance of an international ?fait accompli? within a member state of an international economic conference. This expertise is most relevant to the conference of the twentieth century: the Bretton Woods conference, a landmark in world economic history. The study is intended to inform the banking elite of Greece. It was written a few months after the decisions of the Conference, during the crucial period for Greece of the armistice of the civil war and before the country decided to implement the obligations it assumed as a member state. The combination of epistemological and practical factors makes informal expertise important at the time the study was written. Its content lies in the Conference?s institutionalization of the liberal multilateralist perspective of an open economy, which reinforces new ideas in the macroeconomic management of a state facing the crisis of civil war. Classification-JEL: B26, F33, H30, N44 Keywords: Note: Pages:55-79 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80098&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001003 Number: 3 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=80098 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriele Guzzi Author-Name: Eleonora Sanfilippo Title: Marx, Keynes, Technological Progress and Labor: A Backward-looking Perspective on Artificial Intelligence and Time-use Abstract: The impact of technological progress on labor has always interested economists and policymakers, especially today with AI?s development. This paper examines the issue from a seemingly distant perspective, namely through the contributions of two giant economists of the past, Marx and Keynes. Regarding Marx, we reconstruct the link between liberation from alienated labor and machine neutrality. Regarding Keynes, we reconsider Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930), where the impact of technology on individuals is analyzed. Despite their wellknown theoretical differences, our main finding is that for both authors, time (whether saved, spent, devoted to work, or freed from work) and power (in terms of capital and knowledge access and distribution) remain fundamental to a full assessment of the impact of technology on human beings. Drawing on these insights, the final section addresses current challenges posed by generative AI - such as the reallocation of time, the preservation of creativity, and the cognitive risks of automation - and outlines a set of public policy suggestions inspired by Marx?s and Keynes?s reflections on the impact of technological progress. Classification-JEL: B10, B14, B15, B31 Keywords: Note: Pages:81-113 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80099&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001004 Number: 4 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=80099 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Juan Antonio Gim?nez Esp?n Title: Value Judgments and the Making of Economic History: From John Neville Keynes to Contemporary Debates Abstract: This article revisits the longstanding debate on the role of value judgments in economics by tracing its evolution from the late nineteenth century to the present. Beginning with J. N. Keynes?s tripartite distinction, it examines how leading figures such as Friedman, Robbins, Schumpeter, Myrdal, R?pke, Heilbroner, Sen, Wight, and Dasgupta conceptualized the relationship between positive analysis and normative commitments. By classifying these thinkers into three epistemological categories, the study shows that methodological positions on value judgments have shaped both economic reasoning and the interpretation of historical processes. Synthesizing in a single framework the perspectives of these principal economists, it highlights continuities and divergences that illuminate the intellectual history of economics. The article argues that recognizing the normative underpinnings of economic reasoning is essential for understanding the historiography of economics, the practice of economic history, and the pedagogical transmission of ideas. Beyond description, the proposed classification provides a framework to reassess how ethical and methodological commitments inform historical inquiry in economics. Classification-JEL: B10, B20, B41, A13 Keywords: Note: Pages:115-148 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80100&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001005 Number: 5 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=80100 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michel S. Zouboulakis Title: John Stuart Mill?s System of Taxation reconsidered Abstract: J.S. Mill?s tax theory and policy is commonly apprehended as aiming to preserve a maximum of incentives for accumulation, and longterm distributive justice. We believe that this assessment overemphasizes the liberal aspects of his economic analysis as against his broader Utilitarian perspective in policy matters. Mill?s fiscal policy was closely related to his strategy of political and social reform aiming at the elevation of mankind. This article aims to reconsider Mill?s system of taxation within the Classical School, under his three inseparable philosophical traits, i.e. Liberalism, Utilitarianism and Social Reformism. After reviewing the Classical principles of taxation of Smith and Ricardo, we present Mill?s own viewpoints on various categories of taxation, namely income, property and consumption, hoping that his ideas may eventually enrich this perennial debate. Classification-JEL: B12, H20, I30 Keywords: Note: Pages:149-159 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80101&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001006 Number: 6 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=80101 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuela Mosca Title: Piero Barucci, 1933-2026 Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:161-163 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80102&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001007 Number: 7 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A cura della Redazione Title: Book reviews Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:165-188 Volume: 2026/1 Year: 2026 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=80103&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2026-001008 Number: 8