Villa Farnesina alla Lungara. Roma.

Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato - Libreria dello Stato 1988, cm.14x20,5, pp.86, illustrazioni a colori, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Itinerari dei Musei, Gallerie, Scavi e Monumenti d'Italia. Nuova Serie,2.

Pubblicazioni della Raffaele Mattioli Foundation. Edited By Diego Piacentino. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1992, cm.17x25, pp.XI,234, legatura editoriale in tutta tela con dorature, sopraccoperta. Collana Raffaele Mattioli Lectures. Design , Monotype composition anf printing by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. In this volume, Sir Alan Peacock, one of Britain's most noted public economists, poses the question as to whether the history of economic thought is an essential part of the training of public finance economists. He argues that the perspective gained by studying the origins of public choice analysis can offer an important stimulus to scientific progress. The first lecture analyses the increasing popularity in recent years of the modernist, anti-historical point of view. The second criticises those theories of growth in government expenditure which ignore the political process. The third lecture draws on Adam Smith and David Hume to extend the conventional economic model of bureaucracy. In the final lecture, Peacock considers the problem of controlling public sector growth and points to ways of overcoming them. The book ends with short commentaries by seven public economists.