In 1955 the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded the inagural Internazionale “Antonio Feltrinelli” Premio per le Scienze Economiche e Sociali to Arthur Cecil Pigou. This paper provides some context to the episode and considers the establishment of the prize; the membership of the 1955...

In 1917, Pigou published his classic article on “The Value of Money” in the Economic Journal. In 1920-21, Pareto wrote a manuscript on monetary theory, ‘Note Critiche di Teoria Monetaria’, but it was not published until 2005 when some fragments of that manuscript were located by Fiorenzo...

Eralier this year, Mario Pomini published an interesting book titled The Paretian Tradition during the Interwar Period: From Dynamics to Growth (London: Routledge pp162, $140.00, ISBN: 978-0-415-66140-9). In this brief paper, prepared for the History of Economic Thought and Policy, I review...

In this historical review we distinguish between two broad categories of value theories, objective and subjective, which focus respectively on the conditions of production and on the preferences of consumers. The objective approach to value theory is discussed with respect to classical political...

In 1924-25 A. C. Pigou was a member of the “Committee on the Currency and Bank of England Note Issues”, which became known as the ‘Chamberlain-Bradbury’ Committee after its two successive chairmen. The historical context of that report, including Pigou’s highlighting of discussion...

In 1924-25 A. C. Pigou was a member of the “Committee on the Currency and Bank of England Note Issues”, which became known as the ‘Chamberlain-Bradbury’ Committee after its two successive chairmen. The Committee’s report is historically important for recommending a bold and quick...

This discussion paper is a draft of the general commentary for Paul Anthony Samuelson: Critical Assessments, which Routledge will publish in October 2004. The three-volume set is a collection of theoretical and applied articles, published between 1988 and 2003, that is intended to assist...

This discussion paper overviews the intellectual foundations of 20th Century fiscal sociology and summarises recent development in the field. It is a draft of the “Fiscal Sociology” entry for the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Public Policy (Routledge), which is currently being...

This paper reflects on the influence of Vilfredo Pareto’s letters to two of his ex-students, Benvenuto Griziotti and Guido Sensini, on Ricardian equivalence and fiscal theory. The letters are of historical interest because of their emphasis on the need for fiscal studies to consider “social...

Even though important analytical concepts named after Vilfredo Pareto were, and still are, employed in public finance theory, Pareto was actually a harsh critic of the Italian public finance tradition, especially the classic studies on public goods and the reliance on the benefit principle when...