PANTALEONI (Maffeo).
Pure Economics.
“A CLASSIC OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL”.
The principle work by Maffeo Pantaleoni, originally published in Italian in 1889. An important early proponent of marginalist ideas in Italian economic thought, sometimes referred to as the ‘Alfred Marshall of Italy’, Pantaleoni ranks amongst the most original and complex figures in the history of Italian economics. 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‘is a classic of the Mathematical School, and contains besides much new matter of the author’s, some previously unpublished work of Marshall’s’ (Baston, A Select Bibliography of Modern Economic Theory, p. 30).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 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’.
Provenance: from the library of the Fraser Institute, one of the world’s leading public policy think tanks. With the Fraser Institute bookplate to the front pastedown, presented by John Henry Robinson Molson (1826-1897), Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist.
