FIRST EDITION BOOKS

Heinz Haber
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Antonio Quadri
Francesco Andreola

Giovanni Cosimo
Fratelli Treves Editori

Douglas Hofstadter
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Jeremias Gotthelf
Edizioni Studio Tesi

Gaetano Salvemini
Feltrinelli

Lawrence Wright
A. Vallardi

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.

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'.

AA.VV.
Fondazione Banca Agricola Mantovana

Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés

Attilio Bertolucci
Garzanti Editore

Giuseppe Prezzolini, Giovanni Papini
Francesco Lumachi editore

Gino Doria
Riccardo Ricciardi Editore

Gianni Bertini
Edizioni Castelli & Rosati

AA.VV.
Edizioni Santa Caterina

AA.VV.
De Sono

Giorgio Torelli
Edizioni del Borghese

Jean-Bernard Naudin, Odile Godard
Tecniche nuove

Pietro Ingrao
Editori Riuniti