Economic Science and Economists at the Present Day

Riccardo Faucci and Roberto Marchionatti
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Riccardo Faucci: University of Pisa

Chapter 10 in Luigi Einaudi: selected Economic Essays, Volume 2, 2014, pp 284-298 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Exactly fifty-one years ago, a great Italian scholar, Maffeo Pantaleoni, speaking at the University of Geneva, proclaimed a thesis the repercussions of which are still with us: ‘that the history of economic doctrines should contain only the history of economic truths, and not that of economic errors.’ At the time Pantaleoni’s thesis was disputed by the majority; and indeed, a survey of some of the most famous syntheses of the history of economic theory — those of Cossa and Gide, for instance — inclined one to the belief that our scientific works should reflect the battles being fought out in the world’s newspapers, parliaments and market squares.

Keywords: Oligo Poly; Economic Science; Ivory Tower; Pure Competition; Social Upheaval (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137345004_14

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