In the period straddling the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the most significant bases of the fundamental framework of modern economic theory were extended and studied in depth. A significant number of Italian economists and thinkers furnished contributions of great originality to these foundations, so much so that talk of an Italian school of economics and finance is wholly justified. Since the second half of the nineteenth century, this school has produced contributions of great importance which undoubtedly include some of the most significant milestones of economic theory, extremely stimulating and relevant even today. For most of these works, however, their publication in Italian only was a serious impediment to their dissemination in the broader European and international context. Hence we believe it of considerable interest to collect some of those contributions and publish them in English. This is the third volume in a set of three.

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MARIO BALDASSARRI is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is the editor of the journal Rivista di Political Economica and of several books in the field of macro and microeconomics.

PIERLUIGI CIOCCA is Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy. He holds appointments in Committees and Working Groups within the OECD, the G-10 and the European Union as the Bank of Italy representative. He is the author of two books in monetary economics and economic history and several articles in Italian and foreign economic journals.

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PART I: WEALTH, LABOUR MARKET AND PENSIONS On the Probable Amount of Private Wealth in Italy: From 1872-1889; M.Pantaleoni The Labour Market; G.Montemartini On the Reform of Civil and Army Pensions; L.Amoroso PART II: NORTH AND SOUTH The Mezzogiorno and the North of Italy; E.Ciccotti To the Italians of the Mezzogiorno; E.Ciccotti North and South: Preliminary Study of the Distribution of State Revenues and Spending in Italy; F.S.Nitti Sicily in 1876: Political and Administrative Conditions; L.Franchetti & S.Sonnino PART III: EMIGRATION Capital Lost to Italy by Emigration Abroad; A.Beneduce The Cost of Production of Man and the Economic Value of Emigrants; F.Coletti The Cost of Production of Man and the Economic Value of Emigrants (Regarding an Article by Professor F.Coletti); V.Pareto Personal Capital and the Economic Value of Emigrants; A.Beneduce Again on the Cost of Production of Man and the Economic Value of Emigrants; F.Coletti PART IV: INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC WORKS AND ENTERPRISES A State Within a State; L.Amoroso 'Related' Costs and the Economics of Transport; E.Barone The Telephone Industry and State Exercise of Said; A.de Marco The Municipalisation of Public Services: Theory, Debate and Practice: Various Papers; G.Montemartini Index