Papers by Roberto Marchionatti
Routledge eBooks, Nov 23, 2000
Luigi Einaudi: Selected Economic Essays
Exactly fifty-one years ago, a great Italian scholar, Maffeo Pantaleoni, speaking at the Universi... more 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.
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Mar 6, 2014
Routledge eBooks, 2004
Volume One: The Emergence of the Mathematical Revolution in Economics Section 1: The Leaders 1. W... more Volume One: The Emergence of the Mathematical Revolution in Economics Section 1: The Leaders 1. William Stanley Jevons, Theory of exchange Theory of Political Economy (London: Macmillan, first edition 1871) Chapter IV, ' 75-166 2. Leon Walras, 'Theorie mathematique de l'echange', Section II, Lessons 9-26: 47-156, Elements d'economie politique pure (Lausanne: Corbaz, Paris: Guillaumin, first edition, 1874-77) 3. Leon Walras, 'Du numeraire et de la Monnaie', Lessons 9-26: 47-156, Section III, Elements d'economie politique pure (Lausanne: Corbaz, Paris: Guillaumin, first edition, 1874-77) 4. Leon Walras, 'Theorie naturelle de la Production et de la consommation de la richesse', Lessons 41-44: 245-270 Section IV, Elements d'economie politique pure (Lausanne: Corbaz, Paris: Guillaumin, first edition, 1874-77) 5. Leon Walras, 'Conditions et consequences du progres economique', Lessons 45-49: 273-304 Section V, Elements d'economie politique pure (Lausanne: Corbaz, Paris: Guillaumin, first edition, 1874-77) 6. Alfred Marshall The Pure Theory of Domestic Trade From the Pure Theory of Foreign Trade (privately printed, Cambridge, 1879): Part 2. 'The Pure Theory of Domestic Trade': 1-37 7. Francis Y. Edgeworth Part I: 1-15 From Mathematical Psychics (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881) 8. Francis Y. Edgeworth Part II, 'Economic Calculus': 16-56 Mathematical Psychics (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881) 9. Francis Y. Edgeworth On Unnumerical Mathematics, Appendix I, Mathematical Psychics (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881), 83-93 10. Francis Y. Edgeworth Appendix V. 'On Professor Jevons's formulae of exchange' 104-116 Mathematical Psychics (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881) Section 2: Correspondence and Reviews 11. The correspondence between Leon Walrus and Stanley Jevons, in Journal des economistes, 34, June 1874: 417-422 12. Alfred Marshall, 'Mr. Jevons' Theory of Political Economy', The Academy, 34, 1, April, 1872: 130-132 13. William S. Jevons, 'The Mathematical Theory of Political Economy', Journal ot the Statistical Society of London, 37, December 1874: 478:488 14. William S. Jevons, 'Review of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics', Mind, Vol. 6, 24, 1881: 581-583 15. Alfred Marshall, 'Review of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics', The Academy, No. 476, June 18: 457 16. J. Bertrand, 'Compte-rendu', Journal des Savantes, Sept. 1883: 499-508 Volume Two: The Diffusion of Mathematical Method in Economics Part I. The 1880s Section 1: Leaders and Followers 17. Wilhelm Launhardt From: Mathematische Begrundung der Volkswirthschaftslehre (Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1885) (The Mathematical foun
History of Economic Ideas, 2016
In her paper Deirdre McCloskey holds the following two points : first, a real science, or any int... more In her paper Deirdre McCloskey holds the following two points : first, a real science, or any intelligent inquiry into the world, must do two things : it must theorize and must observe ; second, mainstream economists don't really do either theorizing or observing. Economics engages in two activities, making qualita tive theorems and search for statistical significance, which, Deirdre says, look like theorizing and observing. However, neither of them is what it claims to be. Making qualitative theorems is not theorizing «in a sense that would have to do with a double-virtued inquiry into the world». In the same sense, searching for statistical significance is not observing. Deirdre says that economics has fallen for qualitative results in the ory and statistically significant/insignificant results in empirical work. According to her, the first error the mathematical one has charac terized economics since its beginning. However, it is since about 1947, with Paul Samuelson's Foundations, that the cutting edge and, later, the dominant scientific agenda in economics has been to reformulate verbal arguments into symbols and variables. The second error the statistical one was brought into economics by Tinbergen and Klein in the 1940s, but in statistics this error generally dates back to R. A. Fisher and Karl Pearson.
Routledge eBooks, Jan 18, 2023
Springer eBooks, 2020
The General Introduction criticizes the mainstream conception of the history of economic thought ... more The General Introduction criticizes the mainstream conception of the history of economic thought as rational reconstruction and offers a different perspective of the role of the history of economic thought in economics. Mainstream approach treats the thinkers of the past as if they are contemporaries with whom it is possible to exchange views. It represents the point of view of those who regard earlier economic doctrine as simply ‘the wrong opinions of dead men’. On the contrary, author’s approach assigns an important role to the historical reconstruction of the theoretical contributions of different economists and combines historical with intellectual reconstruction in order to recover the thinking of the authors of the past in its entirety and to grasp their intellectual activity as a whole.
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