Maffeo Pantaleoni (;
Frascati, 2 July 1857
Milan, 29 October 1924) was an
Italian economist. At first he was a notable proponent of
neoclassical economics. Later in his life, before and during
World War I, he became an ardent
nationalist and syndicalist, with close ties to the
Fascist
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movement. He was Minister of Finance in the
Carnaro
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government of
Gabriele D'Annunzio at
Fiume, which lasted for fifteen months between 1919 and 1920. Shortly before his death, he was elected to the
Italian Senate
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.
Work
Pantaleoni was a major contributor to the Italian school of economics known as 'La Scienza delle Finanze'. His book ''Teoria della Traslazione dei Tributi'' (theory of tax shifting) is a pioneering study of
tax incidence. According to
Nobel prize winner
James M. Buchanan, Pantaleoni and his followers (such as
Antonio De Viti De Marco
Antonio de Viti de Marco (30 September 1858 – 1 December 1943) was an Italian economist. Born in Lecce, he was professor of public finance in Rome from 1887 until 1931, when he resigned rather than take an oath of loyalty to the Italian fascism ...
and
Vilfredo Pareto) can be considered the intellectual forefathers of the modern
public choice theory
Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science".Gordon Tullock, 9872008, "public choice," ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics''. . Its content includes the st ...
.
Family
Maffeo's great grandniece is American actress
Téa Leoni.
Bibliography (selection)
* ''Teoria della traslazione dei tributi'', 1882.
* ''Contributions to the Theory of the Distribution of Public Expenditure'', 1883.
* ''Dell'ammontare probabile della ricchezza privata in Italia'', 1884.
* ''Pure Economics'', 1889. .
* ''A proposito di Luigi Cossa e della sua "Histoire des Doctrines économiques"'', 1898, GdE.
* ''Dei criteri che devono informare la storia delle dottrine economiche'', 1898, GdE.
* ''An attempt to analyze the concepts of "Strong" and "Weak" in their economic connexion'', 1898, EJ.
* ''Una visione cinematografica del progresso della scienza economica, 1870–1907'', 1907, GdE.
* ''Note in Margine della Guerra'', 1917.
* ''Politica'', 1918.
* ''Erotemi di Economica'', 1925.
References
External links
Maffeo Pantaleoni at the New School
1857 births
1924 deaths
People from Frascati
Italian politicians
Historians of economic thought
19th-century Italian economists
20th-century Italian economists
19th-century Italian male writers
20th-century Italian male writers
Writers from Lazio
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