Manual of political economy : a critical and variorum edition / Vilfredo Pareto ; edited by Aldo Montesano, Alberto Zanni, Luigino Bruni, John S. Chipman, and Michael McLure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pareto, Vilfredo, 1848-1923, author.

Contributor:

Montesano, Aldo, editor.

Zanni, Alberto, editor.

Bruni, Luigino, 1966- editor.

Chipman, John Somerset, 1926-2022, editor.

McLure, Michael, 1959- editor.

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Manuale di economia politica. English

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Physical Description:

xvi, 664 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Critical and variorum edition.

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian and French.

Summary:

Vilfredo Paretos Manual of Political Economy is a 'classic' study in economics for many reasons, the most noteworthy of which include the setting of general equilibrium economics within a choice theoretic framework based on the opposition between tastes and obstacles; the definitive formulation of economic efficiency, including the surplus approach to collective welfare; the technically flawed but nonetheless insightful treatment of path dependence in consumer theory; and the introduction of non-competitive market analysis to general equilibrium economics. In so doing, Pareto's general study of economic equilibrium not only substantially extended the contributions to economic theory made by Leon Walras, his predecessor in the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne, it did so in a manner that was often contrary to Walras's own thinking on the formalisation of economic theory. This English language Critical and Variorum Edition of Pareto's Manual of Political Economy-a revised and extended translation of the 'Edizione critica published in Italian in 2006-is a very significant book for two main reasons. First, it is the only variorum translation of the Italian language Manuale di Economia Politica, originally published in 1906, and the subsequent French language Manuel d'Economie Politique, originally published in 1909. Second, it includes extensive contributions from the editors including annotations, to clarify particular points in Pareto's text; editors' notes, to critically reflect on major themes in Pareto's text and to draw attention to the historical influences that led to their development and their anticipation of, or influence on, subsequent ideas that emerged in economics; and notes to the 1909 mathematical appendix, to highlight the mix of insight and imperfection in Pareto's mathematical economics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter I General Principles 1

Chapter II Introduction to Social Science 20

Chapter III The General Concept of Economic Equilibrium 72

Chapter IV Tastes 125

Chapter V Obstacles 145

Chapter VI Economic Equilibrium 173

Chapter VII Population 192

Chapter VIII Landed Capital and Capital Goods Proper 220

Chapter IX The Concrete Economic Phenomenon 232.

Notes:

"This English language Critical and Variorum Edition of Pareto's Manual of Political Economy-a revised and extended translation of the 'Edizione critica' published in Italian in 2006-is a very significant book for two main reasons. First it is the only variorum translation of the Italian language Manuale di Economia Politica, originally published in 1906, and the subsequent French language Manuel d'Économie Politique, originally published in 1909.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0199607958

9780199607952

OCLC:

852806112

Publisher Number:

99958863692