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This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active participation of economists in the management of power. The book is organized into four main conceptions of power relations: i) Power as embedded in political institutions; ii) Power as emerging from the asymmetric relations caused by the unequal distribution of income and wealth; iii) Power as associated to the monopolistic or oligopolistic position held by some firms in the market; and iv) Power as the management of economic policies by the state. Mosca brings together contributions from a range of scholars to analyse how economists have considered the role of power, putting the discussion into a much needed historical context.
Lelio Basso was a major thinker and political leader of Italian socialism; his writings – translated for the first time – provide highly original contributions on anti-fascist struggles, and a rethinking of Marxism centred on Rosa Luxemburg, Italy’s radical politics and internationalism.
This book offers a complete presentation of the most important themes of Marx’s thought, following the development of Marx’s theory from the beginning to his death and offering a reconstruction and analysis that covers the whole of Marx’s life and works. Each chapter presents one of the central topics of Marx’s reflection: the confrontation with the Hegelian theory of the State (1843); the critique of political liberalism in the “On the Jewish Question”; the discovery of Political Economy in the Manuscripts of 1844; the new theory of history developed in The German Ideology; the political theory and the revolution of 1848; the critique of political economy from the Grundrisse to Capital; and the political thought of the last Marx (the Paris Commune and the critique of the German Social Democratic Party).Stefano Petrucciani is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.
The ongoing economic crisis has revealed fundamental problems both in our economic system and the discipline which analyses it. This book presents a series of contrasting but complementary approaches in economic theory in order to offer a critical toolkit for examining the modern capitalist economy. The global economic crisis may have changed the world in which we live, but not the fundamental tenets of the discipline. This book is a critical assessment of the relation between economic theory and economic crises: how intellectual thinking impacts on real economic events and vice versa. It aims at challenging the conventional way in which economics is taught in universities and later adopted ...
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Che i diari di Montanelli siano un'opera a sé, diversa dalla sua attività giornalistica, letteraria e storica, mi sembra dimostrato dalla modesta importanza che gli avvenimenti politici hanno in queste pagine. Nel diario parlò anzitutto di se stesso. Sergio Romano "Milano, 2 giugno. È la festa della Repubblica. Io la celebro ricevendo nelle gambe quattro pallottole di rivoltella, calibro 9. Me le sparano alle 10.10, appena uscito dall'albergo Manin, alle spalle. Aggrappandomi all'inferriata dei giardini pubblici, penso: 'Devo morire in piedi!'. Questo pensiero stupido, retaggio sicuramente del Ventennio, è forse quello che mi salva: cadendo, avrei probabilmente preso l'ultima scarica ne...