ERNESTO SCREPANTI is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Siena, Italy. He has published extensively on the institutions of capitalism, the history and methodology of economics, the theory of value and the theory of freedom. His recent publications include
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism, 'Freedom and Social Goods: Rethinking Marx's Theory of Communism', in
Rethinking Marxism,
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought (with S. Zamagni) and 'Taxation, Social Goods, and the Distribution of Freedom' in
Metroeconomica.