Carmen Vita is Assistant Professor in History of Economic Thought (subject group Secs-P/04) at the Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM), University of Sannio, Benevento. She is Lecturer on Theories and Methods of Political Economy (SECS-P/04) and Tourism Economics (SECS-P/01).at the Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM), University of Sannio, Benevento. Her researches focus on: the debate among economists on the “Southern Question” and development policies; trasformations of the Italian banking system; history of Italian Economic Thought.