The Sociological School of Italian Science of Finance: A Retrospective View

Antonio Di Majo

QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, 2010, issue 1

Abstract: A recent book by McLure analyses Italian economic thought in the early 20th century with breference to the school of fiscal sociology, consisting of a number of Italian economists who shared the views of Vilfredo Pareto on public finance. These Italian economists sought ways to explain choices of public finance utilizing 12. Sull’evoluzione recente delle metodologie dell’analisi economica delle scelte collettive rimando a Di Majo e De Chiara (2009) e alla letteratura ivi richiamata. a paradigm other than the neoclassical approach. This phase ended in the 1930s, and mainstream public finance adopted a neoclassical approach. However the heritage of Italian unorthodox thinkers, associated with both the Paretian approach, can be found in the issues considered in more recent developments.

Keywords: Public Choices; Public economics methodology; History of public finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 B19 B29 H80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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