Review of LEONARDO ALLODI (ed.), Sociologia Comparata delle Civiltà, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 2024. Pp. 512. € 25.00. ISBN: 978-88-498-8039-7

Comparative sociology of civilisations is the title of this book edited by Leonardo Allodi for Rubettino and enjoying specialist contributors present- ing the various scholars that researched in this field. Actually, this work that is not only interesting for the disciplines directly concerned, as anthropolog- ical philosophy, sociology of culture and philosophy of history, but this kind of study has accompanied political economy for a long time, used to single out the institutions and the different organisation of various economies. After Vico, it was adopted by many scholars as those of German historicism, Ger- man Ethical economy, Italian Ethical economy as in the case of Lampertico, Toniolo and Luzzatti. Economists abandoned this complementary approach about the beginning of the Twentieth century when formalised economics definitely prevailed as a scientific inquiry. Moreover, the same idea of civi- lisation underwent a gloomy decline accused to be ethnocentric.