From Free-Trade Propaganda to the Theory of International Trade

Fiorenzo Mornati ()
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Fiorenzo Mornati: University of Turin

Chapter 6 in Vilfredo Pareto: An Intellectual Biography Volume II, 2018, pp 157-179 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the period under examination, Pareto returned to the themes relating to international trade (in this regard, see Mornati (Vilfredo Pareto: An intellectual biography. Volume I. From Science to Liberty (1848–1891). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)) which he had earlier broached during his period of amateur journalism, in order to develop their theoretical aspects, and specifically to consolidate them within the framework of general economic equilibrium and the economics of well-being (for an earlier study of this issue, Maneschi (Journal of the History of Economic Thought XV-2: 210–228, 1993)). Thus, after describing the free-trade principles to which Pareto had subscribed over the preceding 20 years (Sect. 6.1), we will delineate the arguments, made from a free-trade perspective yet analytical in character, which he advanced against the protectionist-oriented reasoning of CournotCournot, Augustin and of AuspitzAuspitz, Rudolf Lieben, Richard and Lieben (Sect. 6.2), before characterising in more detail Pareto’s first extended contribution to the theory of international trade (Sects. 6.3 and 6.4). Lastly, we will re-examine a number of other instances of the empirical analysis he applied concerning the consequences of customs protection (Sect. 6.5).

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04540-1_6

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