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Economic Science and Economists at the Present Day

In: Luigi Einaudi: selected Economic Essays, Volume 2

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  • Riccardo Faucci

    (University of Pisa)

  • Roberto Marchionatti

    (University of Turin)

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.

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  • Riccardo Faucci & Roberto Marchionatti, 2014. "Economic Science and Economists at the Present Day," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Riccardo Faucci & Roberto Marchionatti (ed.), Luigi Einaudi: selected Economic Essays, Volume 2, chapter 10, pages 284-298, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-34500-4_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137345004_14
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