The Question of Democracy for the Italian Marginalists (1882–1924)

Manuela Mosca and Eugenio Somaini
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Eugenio Somaini: University of Parma

Chapter 4 in Power in Economic Thought, 2018, pp 81-106 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Mosca and Somaini focus on the influential group of the Italian marginalists and on their ideas about power relations in a democratic regime. They show how Vilfredo Pareto, Maffeo Pantaleoni, Antonio de Viti de Marco, and Enrico Barone made use of the theoretical weapons they had elaborated in order to analyse the distribution and the exercise of political power. With a dramatic period of Italian history as their backdrop, their theory of the circulation of elites, their notion of classes, and the psychology of the masses provided meaningful insights into the nature of the state and the political conflicts of their time.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94039-7_4

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