Preface: Introduction to Economic Policy

Abstract

The author of this book needs no introduction to scholars in Italy and abroad who are active in the field of economic and statistical studies. On account of his extensive research on such subjects as income distribution, the relations between current prices and future prices, the influence of forward contracts on prices, the relation between prices and discount over the short term and during the economic cycle as well as in the long term, economic forecasting, the inductive testing of the theory of international payments, relations between the harvest and the price of Egyptian cotton, and a myriad of other subjects all of which could not possibly be listed here, he rapidly rose to fame within the academic community and gained professorial appointments at several of the major Italian universities. Now he has obtained a professorship in Milan, after a prolonged period of residence in Cairo where, with the support of the Italian government, his authoritative presence enhanced the prestige of the new national university founded by King Fuad.

First published in Costantino Bresciani Turroni, Introduction to Economic Policy, ed. Giulio Einaudi, 1942.