Università Roma Tre

The aim of this course is to give the students the analytical instruments which are necessary to understand the history of public intervention in the economic system and the interaction between economic theories and public choices from the Empires cycle to our days. Particular attention is given to the passage from public production to regulation in the actual context of liberalization, privatization and decentralization associated to the Real Business Cycle theories. The main features of the public intervention in Italy from 1861 to the main fiscal and monetary measures taken to face both the international economic crisis and the European sovereign debts one conclude the course.