PANTALEONI (Maffeo).
Principii di economia pura.
The principle work by Maffeo Pantaleoni, an important early proponent of marginalist ideas in Italian economic thought, sometimes referred to as the ‘Alfred Marshall of Italy’. Described as ‘a landmark’ by Schumpeter, Pure Economics ‘is a classic of the Mathematical School, and contains besides much new matter of the author’s, some previously unpublished work of Marshall’s’ (Baston, A Select Bibliography of Modern Economic Theory, p. 30).
The English translation, published in 1898, received a glowing review by Irving Fisher in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, with Fisher writing that: ‘We do not know where else in English can be found so compact and excellent an epitome of modern economic theory’.
