Ethics and Economics in Guido Menegazzi

Abstract

Guido Menegazzi tries to give a solution to the problem of the ethics-economics relation. His effort lies within the current of thought against the prevailing opinions on the possible separation of economics from ethics. As for Italy, such current has its main representatives in Toniolo, Vito and Menegazzi, and tries to bring the rich cultural heritage up-to-date, that is characterized by the close bond between economics and ethics; the same as the tradition of Catholic thinking the Church has been consistently suggesting starting from the Rerum Novarum untill the last social encyclicals, in the last century.

Giovanni Tondini, is associate professor of Political Economy at the faculty of Business Economics of the University of Verona. Among his writings: Controllabilità e teoria della politica economica, from Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia (1983), May-June; Further Discussion on Controllability and Theory of Economic Policy, North-Holland publishing company, Amsterdam 1983; Mark Blaug e la metodologia della scienza economica, from Il pensiero economico moderno (1983); Allocazione intertemporale delle risorse e modelli di controllo per la politica economica, Giuffré, Milano 1984; Public Finance: local versus central government, Cueim, Verona 1989; Etica ed economia: le ragioni per una visione unitaria, In G. GABURRO, R. MOLESTI, G. ZALIN (edited by), Economia Stato e Società, Ipem Edizioni, Pisa 1990.