Federico Caffè e la diffusione del pensiero economico (Federico Caffè and the diffusion of economic thought)

Monika Poettinger
Additional contact information
Monika Poettinger: Università ‘Bocconi’, Milano - Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2015, vol. 23, issue 2, 61-84

Abstract: Federico Caffè (1914-1987) was a renowned Italian economist particularly dedicated to political economy. He also acted as an extraordinary agent of diffusion of economic thought through a relentless publishing activity. Caffè’s diffusing effort was motivated by his personal historicism and his philosophy of history. His effort proceeded over three channels: academia, trade unions and newspapers. He registered his main success in teaching. An entire generation of economists absorbed his lesson of eclecticism transferring it in their own activities and workplaces. Among the economic actors of big business, big labour and big government, instead, Caffè could only testimony the permanence of old ideas. His articles, published by independent newspapers over decades, had a wider audience and appreciation, but his preaching remained unheeded. He nonetheless believed that his writings would be part of future historiography, pointing at those possible civilizations that, ignored at present, could become reality in future

Keywords: xx secolo; pensiero economico italiano; Federico Caffè; economia del benessere; J. M. Keynes (xx century; Italian Economic Thought; Federico Caffè; Welfare Economics; J. M. Keynes) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B20 B31 B41 D60 E12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201506302&rivista=63
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pei:journl:v:23:y:2015:2:5:p:61-84

Access Statistics for this article

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano is currently edited by Massimo Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi

More articles in Il Pensiero Economico Italiano from Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Carlo Cristiano ().