Mario Cedrini

Gianfranco Tusset “From Galileo to Modern Economics. The Italian Origins of Econophysics” Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 210 pp. eBook ISBN 978-3-319-95612-1 DOI10.1007/978-3-319-95612-1 Hardcover ISBN978-3-319-95611-4 Empirical laws are rare in economics. This book describes efforts to anchor economic knowledge to invariant empirical laws. It links 17th and 18th century Galilean monetary economists to econophysics, a field that […]

Unproductive Labour in Political Economy The History of an Idea By Cosimo Perrotta Routledge, 2018 270 pages Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consisting of the public and private resources of a nation. This led them to explore the idea […]