Economic notes: The early years, 1972–1983

Abstract

We set the stage in 1972 when the bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena founded Economic Notes as part of its manifold scheme to reach two main goals: going international and acquiring a stronger position in the public discourse on economics and finance. Then, we highlight how the new Journal aimed at achieving Monte's goals by adopting a specific editorial style. Moreover, through the turmoil of its first dozen years, Economic Notes' bold strategy attracted top international authors and testimonials, selected topical issues, knitted theory and policy, embraced pluralist and forward-looking views, helped the University of Siena to strengthen its international connections. The Journal Economic Notes. 2022;51(S1):e12215.

Editorial policy of Economic Notes—1993–1998

“…This was reflected in an intense programme of seminars held by the most famous economists including several Nobel laureates (including Hicks, Samuelson, Mundell, Sen, Modigliani, and Solow). An early example of these synergies, as we have seen in Asso and Ferri (2022), was the publication of the 'Santa Colomba These workshops, many of which produced books of edited proceedings published by leading international publishers, were motivated by the same pluralistic inspiration pursued in the same period by Economic Notes and were focused on themes perceived as particularly topical in the debate between economists. The main goal was that of exposing the participants (selected PhD students and interested colleagues) to the principal research programmes focusing on a given topic.…”

The recent changes of Economic Notes, 2019–2021

“…2021/3, which completed the first 50 years of Economic Notes . Next, Section 3 reports and comments on the basic indices of performance used throughout this entire Supplement (Asso & Ferri, 2022; Ferri, 2022; Ferri & Fiorito, 2022; Roma, 2022; Vercelli, 2022). In the end, in Section 4, we synthesize the most important points of the paper with a view to the future prospects of Economic Notes .…”