Economic Thought and Institutional Change in France and Italy, 1789-1914

Part I Fighting for identity, justice and liberty.- Economics and "civilization" in Gian Domenico Romagnosi (Edoardo Ciech, Riccardo Soliani).- Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), Lombard philosopher and economist, liberal beyond federalism (Enrico Ivaldi, Riccardo Soliani, Andrea Repetto).- Liberty, labour and human rights: institutional change and the intellectual debate on slavery in France from Condorcet to the mid-19th century (Simona Pisanelli).- Part II Economic freedom, free trade and equity.- Whose Sismondi? Which Italy? The Reception Italy Gave Sismondi's Economic Thought (Letizia Pagliai).- A comparative analysis of the relationship between Friedrich List and French and Italian culture (Stefano Spalletti).- J.-B. Say: political economy and social justice (Riccardo Soliani).- Pellegrino Rossi: A new approach to liberalism (Joël-Thomas Ravix).- Part III Liberalism and its alternatives in various declinations.- From the people to the Industrialists: Saint-Simon and the eclipse of sovereignty (Simona Gregori).- Institutions and development in saint-simonian political economy (Abdallah Zouache).- An economic philosophy for the Republic: Elie Halévy, Alain, André Maurois (Ludovic Frobert).- Economics and Sociology meet Socialism: Sombart, Durkheim and Pareto (Vitantonio Gioia).

Riccardo Soliani is Associate Professor in the History of Economic Thought and Macroeconomics at the School of Social Sciences - Department of Political Science, University of Genoa, Italy. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée économique. His main fields of research are the history of economic thought in Continental Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and postkeynesian economics.