Luigi Einaudi: Selected Economic Essays - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403947775 ISBN 13: 9781403947772

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

The writings of Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) testify to the author's outstanding contribution to economics during his long career as economist, historian and policy-maker. Of special note is his work on the taxation of consumption rather than income. Throughout his career Einaudi argued the economic and political case for European unity, anticipating the need for a common market and monetary union. His writings on money and on political and economic liberalism are enlivened by a down-to-earth conception of the market and grounded in profound historical and institutional knowledge. This book makes an important selection of his works available in English for the first time.

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Review:

'...the editors have compiled an excellent collection: Selected Economic Essays is a recommended book, not only for historians interested in Italian economic thought, but for historians interested in reading the work of a master essayist in pursuit of economic knowledge.' - Michael McLure, History of Economic Ideas

About the Author:

LUCA EINAUDI is Senior Economist in the Department of Economic Affairs at the Prime Minister's Office, Italy. His work focuses on economic and monetary history and immigration policies. He pursued his research at Princeton, Institut de Sciences Politiques, Paris and the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge. Among his publications are Money and Politics, European Monetary Unification and the Gold Standard (1865-73).

RICCARDO FAUCCI is Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Pisa, Italy. A specialist on Italian economics, he is the author of Luigi Einaudi's biography, and of L'economia politica in Italia: Dal Cinquecento ai nostri giorni. In English, he has published Socialism and Marginalism in Italy in Socialism and Marginalism in Economics, edited by I. Steedman with S. Perri; and From Corporative 'Programmed Economy' to Post-war Planning: Some Notes on the Debate among Italian Economists in Money, Credit and the Role of the State: Essays in Honour of A. Graziani edited by R. Arena and N. Salvadori.

ROBERTO MARCHIONATTI is Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, Italy. He is Director of the Research Centre on History and Methodology of Economics Claudio Napoleoni and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Economics of Complexity and Creativity. He is the editor of From Our Italian Correspondent: Luigi Einaudi's Articles in the Economist, 1908-1946, Karl Marx: Critical Responses and Early Mathematical Economics, 1871-1915.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1403947775
• ISBN 13: 9781403947772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 329
• Editor: Einaudi L., Faucci R., Marchionatti R.