Biographical information -- Introduction -- Economic analysis -- Mistaking a phase of endogenous growth with a new role for the state for a "great depression". : the recent financial crisis compared to that of 1873-1979 / Maurice Baslé -- The growth of capital in business cycle theories of the 19th century / Bertram Schefold -- The italian takeoff in the late nineteenth century / Antonio De Viti De Marco, Maffeo Pantaleoni and Francesco Saverio Nitti ; on Economic Growth and Business Cycles / Piero Bini -- Keynes, wages and employment in light of the Great Depression / Harald Hagemann -- Kaldor and robinson on the business cycle: a closed chapter of postKeynesian economics? / Bertram Schefold -- Post crisis learning? : opening the debate about the forgetfulness of the mainstream economic models of the European "sixties" (1945-1975) / Maurice Baslé -- Early approaches to international business cycle analysis / Hans-Michael Trautwein -- Economic policy -- Views about public debt : German versus British classical economists / Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich -- Social spending : its role in economic recovery processes and beyond arguments from the 19th to mid-20th centuries / Sandrine Michel -- Corporative economics and the making of economic policy in Italy during the interwar years (1922-1940) / Piero Bini -- French planning : how to cope with business cycles? / Alain Alcouffe -- From ideas' cycle to economic cycle : the refoundation of liberalism (1929 to 1985) / Arnaud Diemer -- Perception of crises -- Famines and freedom : economic crises in Italian journals and literature in the 19th century / Monika Poettinger -- Economic crisis and unemployment in 19th century literature / Alain Alcouffe -- The European perception of Greece as an investment market in the 19th century / Korinna Schönhärl -- Italian models of economic cycles between World Wars I and II : a correspondence analysis / Gianfranco Tusset -- Index.