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Cover -- Occhiello -- Prefazione -- Indice -- Indice delle figure -- Introduzione -- CAPITOLO 1 PENSARE DA ECONOMISTI -- CAPITOLO 2 L'ECONOMIA DEL CONSUMO -- CAPITOLO 3 L'ECONOMIA DELLA PRODUZIONE E DELLA CRESCITA -- CAPITOLO 4 TEORIA DEI COSTI E CURVE DI OFFERTA -- CAPITOLO 5 LA CONCORRENZA E I SUOI NEMICI -- CAPITOLO 6 IMPOSTE E REGOLAMENTAZIONE -- CAPITOLO 7 MONETA E CREDITO -- CAPITOLO 8 IL COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE -- CAPITOLO 9 I TASSI DI CAMBIO -- CAPITOLO 10 CRESCITA, POVERTÀ E CRISI -- GLOSSARIO -- INDICE ANALITICO

1. The economic way of thinking -- 2. The economics of consumption -- 3. The economics of production and growth -- 4. Cost theorizing and supply curves -- 5. Competition and its enemies -- 6. Taxation, regulation and factor markets -- 7. Money and banking -- 8. International trade -- 9. Exchange rates -- 10. On growth, poverty and crises.

Abstract
Today's views and analyses about taxation are dominated by the social-welfare approach based on various categories of utilitarianism, most notably those developed by the optimal-tax literature. By contrast, this paper focuses on the ethical foundations of taxation and analyses a tradition that harks back to the 17th century. In particular, we emphasise the notion of legitimate taxation in the history of economic thought from the libertarian, the classical-liberal and socialist perspectives. By means of this very notion, we define the essence of a desirable tax structure and draw conclusions in regard to today's tax policies.

Although government health-care programs have been a tremendous drag on economic growth in most developed countries, they remain popular with large segments of the population. Moving away from a government model would likely require, not the dissemination of studies showing that it undermines prosperity, but a sea change in the way people view human dignity, individual responsibility, and natural rights. Adapted from the source document.