On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences: Critical Edition, with an Introduction and Afterword by Paolo Silve

ISBN-13: 9780367866785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 156 str.

Luigi Einaudi; Paolo Silvestri

Opis

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 This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of Einaudi’s – hitherto unpublished – rewriting of one of his most unique and thoughtful essays.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

Spis treści

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 economist-whole-man

O autorze

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.