La Corte costituzionale e l'economia

[Autom. eng. transl.] The financial crisis has tested - together with people, families and the whole world - the fundamental principles of the economic and social order. In Italy, numerous elements, relationships and institutions of the social and political system have been put under pressure. This happened also for the judgments of constitutional legitimacy, when they concerned the measures adopted in these situations: here too the verification of the contents and the maintenance of the "economic constitution" has become more concrete. Each of these judgments, and the events that have been their background, can provide a matter of discussion for constitutionalists and economists: the relationship between economy and law is not simply that between a content and a form, but is a more profound, structural conditioning it's reciprocal. This idea is at the bottom of the study initiative, whose results are collected in this volume. The initiative was organized by the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and by its Departments of Private and Public Law in Economics and Economics and Finance. It was divided into five meetings between September 2016 and May 2017, each in the form of a conversation between a constitutional judge and economists and jurists of the University of Italian Catholics. The general theme of the cycle gives the volume its title. The index of the first part shows the specific topics of the single meetings. Each meeting was inspired by some decisions, indicated in advance by each judge to his interlocutors. Once this common ground was established, all the participants independently chose contents and ways of their contributions to the discussion. This was a real discussion: exchange of questions and answers, sometimes provocations and real criticisms, with replies and counter-replies. The texts and the steps prepared in advance, sometimes, have been left aside in favor of a more spontaneous dialectic. The audience also participated in the dialogue and - a reason of particular satisfaction for the organizers - it also happened that the protagonists of a discussion returned to intervene in subsequent debates. At the end of each meeting, analytical transcripts were carried out, then made available to the speakers, who were invited to review the texts, with the same freedom with which they had participated in the discussion. The invitation was accepted by almost all the recipients. A second part has been added, divided into six chapters, which constitute as many critical guides to the reading of the jurisprudence object of discussion, with ample textual citations and notations, also bibliographic, explaining the context of the decisions and the debate that accompanied them. The sixth chapter is devoted to foreign jurisprudence, cited transversally in the various meetings.