Un economista eclettico. Distribuzione, tecnologie e sviluppo nel pensiero di Nino Andreatta

[Autom. eng. transl.] From the beginning of his scientific production, in the mid-fifties, Nino Andreatta showed a significant interest in problems related to income distribution, economic growth and development. The essays collected in this volume outline the figure of an economist with an eclectic post-Keynesian approach, with ancestry also in classical thought and laterality to the Schumpeterian one. The introductory essay by Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Claudia Rotondi documents and explains the evolution and the passages of Andreatta's thought on the connections between distribution-technologies-development, bringing out a non-dogmatic approach based on reality data. In this line of research also the theoretical moments of scientific production are the premise to subsequent developments: from the economic analysis we move on to the applied economy necessary to draw the reference framework for economic policy choices. Nino Andreatta reveals himself, in his strong inclination towards politics, as a designer of a flexible but certainly not random public intervention, which can both facilitate and direct the actions of market operators, and satisfy those social needs that the market alone does not proves able to achieve.