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Author-Name: Gian Cesare Romagnoli 
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Title: Federico Caffè e la politica economica
(Federico Caffè on economic policy)
Abstract: Federico Caffè was a myth for several generations of scholars and students. He has fundamentally
contributed to the scientific statute of economic policy with his lectures and writings. His relationship
with this discipline, together with his continual urging for the application of measures aimed to
distributive equity, alternative to the ones adopted, may find support in the invitation, encouraged by
economic literature, to an economic interpretation of history. For his refusal to accept the hypotheses
and the propositions of the New Classical Macroeconomics, he has been considered a heterodox
economist. The intellectual legacy of Federico Caffè is huge. It was collected through a life entirely
dedicated to study and teaching and was expressed into his accurate and suggestive evaluations of
both the Italian and the international economic policies in the after second world war period. His aim, 
the same of John Maynard Keynes, was to free capitalism from its evident flaws represented by a persistent
unemployment and an arbitrary and inequitable distribution of income and wealth. His life
was pervaded by what he called the economic policy of the time lost
Classification-JEL: A13, B20, E12, F33, I31, J64, O15
Keywords: scienza economica; valori sociali; politica economica; pensiero italiano del Novecento;
J. M. Keynes; istituzioni monetarie internazionali; disoccupazione; economia del benessere 
(Economics; social values; economic policy; xx century Italian economic thought; J. M.
Keynes; international monetary institutions; unemployment; welfare economics)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 87-102 
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Year: 2015
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201506302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:23:y:2015:2:6:p:87-102