Monika Poettinger is a Contract Professor of Economic History and Thought at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. Gianfranco Tusset is an Associate Professor of Economics, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.

• 1. History of Economic Thought and Economic History: Who Will Bring the Past to Life? 2. Economic facts, theoretical beliefs and the ‘double movement’ 3. Economic knowledge and value judgements 4. Between History and Theory: Otto Neurath’s Economics from 1906 to 1917 5. The Freiburg scholars and interwar Germany 6. When a generally accepted theory fails to meet the facts: the case of Real Business Cycles Theory 7. The cultural and psychological dimensions of economic development 8. Economics and history in Italy in the Twentieth century 9. Labour as culture: the Lombardo-Veneto School 10. Sergio Paronetto: An economist in deed, from Alberto Beneduce to Alcide de Gasperi, 1934-1945

Monika Poettinger is a Contract Professor of Economic History and Thought at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. Gianfranco Tusset is an Associate Professor of Economics, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.

• 1. History of Economic Thought and Economic History: Who Will Bring the Past to Life? 2. Economic facts, theoretical beliefs and the ‘double movement’ 3. Economic knowledge and value judgements 4. Between History and Theory: Otto Neurath’s Economics from 1906 to 1917 5. The Freiburg scholars and interwar Germany 6. When a generally accepted theory fails to meet the facts: the case of Real Business Cycles Theory 7. The cultural and psychological dimensions of economic development 8. Economics and history in Italy in the Twentieth century 9. Labour as culture: the Lombardo-Veneto School 10. Sergio Paronetto: An economist in deed, from Alberto Beneduce to Alcide de Gasperi, 1934-1945

Monika Poettinger is a Contract Professor of Economic History and Thought at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. Gianfranco Tusset is an Associate Professor of Economics, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.

• 1. History of Economic Thought and Economic History: Who Will Bring the Past to Life? 2. Economic facts, theoretical beliefs and the ‘double movement’ 3. Economic knowledge and value judgements 4. Between History and Theory: Otto Neurath’s Economics from 1906 to 1917 5. The Freiburg scholars and interwar Germany 6. When a generally accepted theory fails to meet the facts: the case of Real Business Cycles Theory 7. The cultural and psychological dimensions of economic development 8. Economics and history in Italy in the Twentieth century 9. Labour as culture: the Lombardo-Veneto School 10. Sergio Paronetto: An economist in deed, from Alberto Beneduce to Alcide de Gasperi, 1934-1945