Reflections on political economy. For an inclusive and sustainable development

Abstract

This bio-bibliographic note presents the main aspects of the economic formation of the author, of the relations with important Italian and foreign economists, of the essential traits of his research on economic policy, the theory of economic growth and development, comparative economic development, labor economics. All this is accompanied by elements of contemporary economic history and by analyses and reflections, in a comparative context, on economic development trends and policies regarding the Italian and European economies, the United States, Germany and the main Asian economies: China, India, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea. The general conclusions are that without sufficiently inclusive and sustainable economic policies any economic development process tends to deteriorate or implode and that economic long-run trends are strongly interwoven to the evolution of historical, institutional, social and political phenomena.