HET Issues
Coordinator: Simona Pisanelli
After the successful cycle of HET video lectures aimed at secondary school students and teachers, AISPE has decided to self-produce a cycle of short video lectures on topical economic issues, each about half an hour long.
This wide-ranging initiative appeals to those interested in major contemporary economic issues and their treatment throughout history. Creating the video lectures required expertise, historical knowledge, and the conviction that history is an indispensable tool for understanding the present.
The following is a list of economic issues we consider most relevant in today’s world; the list is, of course, open-ended and any suggestions are welcome:
- Antitrust by N. Giocoli
- Banking and credit
- Capitalism by R. Romani
- Civil economy (V. Erasmo)
- Competition by M. Mosca
- Consumption (E. Sanfilippo)
- Economic development
- Economics of conventions by A: Morselli
- Economic policy by F. Masini
- Ethics and Economy (P. Silvestri)
- Europe by A. Magliulo
- Fiscal policy
- Human capital by S. Spalletti
- Inequalities
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Inflation by G. Michelagnoli
- International trade (F. Bientinesi)
- Labour/Unemployment (M. Alberti)
- Migration (C. Sunna)
- Mezzogiorno
- Monetary policy
- Multiculturalism/globalisation
- National debt (M. Pomini)
- Oligopoly (A. Rancan)
- Public Happiness by L. Bruni
- Slavery by S. Pisanelli
- Uncertainty (C. Zappia)
- Wages by G. Forges Davanzati
- War and economy (E. Brancaccio)
- Welfare by C.E. Orsi
- Women and economics by G. Becchio
Activities
Women between economic facts and ideas in Italy (1750-1950)
AISPE supports and promotes research on Italian women who, throughout history, influenced and engaged in debates on various economic issues, not only in academia and economic institutions, but also in salons, among philanthropists, in political, emancipationist and underground movements, in women’s…