Luigi Einaudi

On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences

Critical Edition, with an Introduction and Afterword by Paolo Silvestri
Herausgeber: Silvestri, Paolo

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Produktbeschreibung

Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, economic historian and political figure. This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of Einaudi's - hitherto unpublished - rewriting of one of his most unique and thoughtful essays. The relevance of this essay is crucial fr

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367866785
• ISBN-10: 0367866781
• Artikelnr.: 58438913

Autorenporträt

Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, journalist, economic historian, one of the major representatives of the Italian tradition in public finance and political figure: Governor of the Bank of Italy, Minister for the Budget and President of the Italian Republic. Paolo Silvestri is Research Fellow in Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Turin. He is also Habilitated Associate Professor both in Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial foreword
Preface
The defence of economic science and the issue of value judgments
Luigi Einaudi, On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments
in Economic Sciences
I. Abstract hypotheses and historical hypotheses
II. On some abstract hypotheses concerning the state and on their
historical value
III. On value judgements in economic sciences
Bibliographical note
Freedom and taxation between good and bad polity, and the
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