I deal with a less ambitious topic here: the reading of some extracts chosen from the Commedia, in the spirit of the title of this conversation (“‘/Civic passion, public life, economic reasoning”), using some of the intellectual instruments available to economists seven hundred years on. In Dante’s radical refusal of the mercantile society emerging at that time, M. Romanelli (L’economia di Dante.
There is a model by a very famous economist behind this question, and his insights can lead us to the conclusion that the value of stabilizing policy, mainly by the central banks, is not great. But there is also widespread economic literature that proves otherwise, as well as insights that are specific to Israel.