LIBROS DE POLÍTICA Y SOCIEDAD

Giorgio Freddi
Gius. Laterza & Figli

Pierluigi Ciocca, Gianni Toniolo
Editori Laterza

Pierluigi Ciocca, Gianni Toniolo
Editori Laterza

Paul Patrick Streeten
Cambridge University Press

In these lectures Paul Streeten provides a major statement on his approach to the development problem. The principal theme of the lectures is that human development, not simply income growth, should be the focus of all strategies to eradicate hunger and poverty in the world. His argument allots an important role to reformed government, both in providing social services and in facilitating the functioning of markets, in opposition to the prevailing view that minimal government is more often than not the optimal solution. He also outlines a normative political economy--how to mobilize reformist alliances, how to use interest groups, how to harness coalitions--in the pursuit of effective development.

Richard F. Kahn
Cambridge University Press

This 1984 book describes the development of thought, both of Keynes and others, culminating in the publication in 1936 of Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. As one of Keynes' close collaborators - from December 1929, when the writing of the Treatise was nearing its completion - Richard Khan provides a uniquely insightful analysis of these events. The author starts with a brief survey of the contributions influential in forming Keynes' early ideas, and moves on to explore the significance of the Quantity Theory of Money, and traces the development of Keynes' attitude towards the theory through his published books. Subsequent lectures are devoted to Keynes' Treatise on Money, and to his more popular writings as an economic adviser which marked the transition from the thinking in the Treatise to that in the General Theory which the author critically examines. The final lecture records the author's memory of his personal relationship with Keynes.

Franco Modigliani
Cambridge University Press

This 1986 book examines some of the main issues that have characterized macroeconomics: the debate between 'monetarists' and 'Keynesians'; the response to demand shocks and supply shocks, by which the monetary authorities control aggregrate nominal income and the use and relevance of the money supply as a target; and the consumption function and the determinants of wealth. It shows that Keynesian stabilization policies succeeded in reducing instability due to demand shocks dramatically, but that no aggregrate demand policy can stabilize both price and employment simultaneously after a supply shock. However, by assigning an overall 'social cost' to (excess) unemployment and (initially) unexpected inflation, an optimism path can be derived. In looking at the consumption function and determinants of wealth the empirical evidence is shown to be most consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis. A concluding section is devoted to the impact on private and national society of the 'social security revolution'.

Richard Stone
Cambridge University Press

These lectures focus on twelve pioneers of economic, demographic and social statistics ranging from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The first lecture discusses the work of the political arithmeticians including William Petty, Founding Fellow of the Royal Society. The second lecture considers three steps in the development of quantitative economics in the form of Bishop Fleetwood, Arthur Young and Patrick Colquhoun. In the third lecture Stone turns to demography, and to John Graunt, Edmond Halley and William Farr. The fourth lecture deals with social statistics in the persons of Frederick Morton Eden, Florence Nightingale and Charles Booth.

Herbert A. Simon
Cambridge University Press

In his Mattioli Lectures, Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon directs attention to the kinds of empirical research that are necessary for progress in microeconomics. He traces the development of neoclassical economic theory and its gradual retreat from empiricism to abstraction. He then discusses the importance of business firms to the economic system, and the need for a thoroughly empirical understanding of how organisations work and reach their decisions. Finally, he examines innovative approaches to empirical research, including experimental economics, observational methods for studying economic behaviour, and the kinds of simulation models that are needed to interpret decision process. A round-table discussion of these issues follows; the participants, in addition to Professor Simon, are Professors Claudio Dematte, Massimo Egidi, Richard M. Goodwin, Robert Marris, Aldo Montesano and Riccardo Viale.

[Gian Domenico Romagnosi]
Stamperia del R. I. Monast. di S. Salvatore

Giuseppe Lo Bianco, Sandra Rizza
Chiarelettere

Molto è stato detto per celebrare la figura eroica di Paolo Borsellino. Molto poco invece si sa degli ultimi 56 giorni della sua vita, dalla strage di Capaci all'esplosione di via D'Amelio, quando qualcuno decide la sua condanna a morte. Lo Bianco e Rizza ricostruiscono quei giorni drammatici con l'aiuto delle carte giudiziarie, le testimonianze di pentiti e di ex colleghi magistrati, le confidenze di amici e familiari. E ci restituiscono le pagine dell'agenda scomparsa nell'inferno di via D'Amelio, in cui Borsellino annotava le riflessioni e i fatti più segreti. Qualcuno si affrettò a requisirla: troppo scottante ciò che il magistrato aveva annotato nella sua corsa contro il tempo, giorno dopo giorno. Chi incontrava? Chi intralciava il suo lavoro in Procura? Quali verità andava scoprendo? E perché, lasciato solo negli ultimi giorni della sua vita, disse: "Ho capito tutto... mi uccideranno, ma non sarà una vendetta della mafia... Forse saranno mafiosi quelli che materialmente mi uccideranno, ma quelli che avranno voluto la mia morte saranno altri"?

Attilio Cabiati
Giulio Einaudi Editore

Giuseppe Zaccaria
Edizioni Lavoro

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Facchi Editore

Vincenzo Gioberti
S. Bonamici e compagni, tipografi-editori

Subcomandante Marcos
Mondadori

In che cosa consistono la novità e l'originalità dello zapatismo, nato nelle montagne del Chiapas, la regione più arretrata (e potenzialmente ricca) del Messico? Il subcomandante Marcos, in questo libro, parla di sé, del movimento di cui è il simbolo, di come è sorto e si è evoluto. E' un racconto corale in cui i veri protagonisti sono le comunità indie, emarginate, sfruttate e private di ogni diritto civile, e lo zapatismo che, dopo la fine del comunismo e del guevarismo, è oggi un tentativo di individuare strade nuove per far politica alle soglie del terzo millennio. moderne hanno saputo eguagliare.

AA.VV.
Edizioni Santa Caterina

Giorgio Torelli
Edizioni del Borghese

Luigi Alibrandi
La Tribuna Editrice

AA.VV.
Edizioni di Comunità

Federico Rampini
Carocci editore