Guido Tortorella Esposito is Associate Professor of the History of Economic Thought at the University of Sannio and a member of the History of Economic Thought research group at Complutense University of Madrid. He deals with epistemology and the theory of money, prices, and the business cycle, in relation to theory and cultural reflection. He is the author of several national and international papers and volumes, including: Globalizzazione e giustizia. Limiti dell'economia politica e prospettive dell'economia civile (Giappichelli, Torino 2025) and Realismo crítico y Economía civil en España e Italia. Una perspectiva histórica (with J. Hernández Andreu, Madrid, Paranifo, 2019).

Stefano Figuera is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Law of the University of Catania (Italy) where he teaches Political Economy and History of Political Economy. His research interests include monetary theory of production, post-Keynesian theory of money and distribution, classical and neoclassical monetary theory, medieval debate on money and interest. In addition to publishing essays on monetary theory and the history of economic thought, he is author of the volumes Théorie monétaire dans l'économie capitaliste (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2001) and Sul carattere monetario dell'economia capitalistica. Smith, Ricardo, Marx e la teoria neoclassica della moneta (Giuffré, Milan, 2006).