First Principles of Public Finance.

DE VITI DE MARCO (Antonio).

First Principles of Public Finance.

Translated by Edith Pavlo Marget. First edition in English. 8vo. 435, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in black, bottom edge untrimmed, dust jacket (just a hint of faint spotting to edges and endpapers, contents otherwise generally clean; jacket slightly edge worn and dust-marked with some shallow chipping to ends of spine panel and corners, spine panel with small area of marking, notwithstanding a really excellent example of the very rare jacket). London, Jonathan Cape, 1936.

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The rare English translation of this landmark work on the theory of public finance by the Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943), complete with the notably scarce original dust jacket.

‘De Viti de Marco’s name is primarily connected with his Principi di Economia Finanziaria, which was the subject of various drafts and revisions in 1923, 1928, 1934 and 1939. The definitive edition of this work contains a masterly preface by Luigi Einaudi which fully upholds ‘for spontaneous universal recognition’ the position of supremacy held by De Viti de Marco over other researchers in the field of public finance. In addition, when the book was translated into English, it was generally judged to be ‘the best book ever written on public finance’. De Viti de Marco’s Principi has been translated into all major foreign languages, and it embodies the most complete attempt to construct an ‘economic’ theory of the entire financial system, whose final aim is the systematic application of the theory of marginal utility to financial problems’ (New Palgrave).

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