- Luigi Cossa
Luigi Cossa (
May 27 ,1831 -May 10 ,1896 ), Italianeconomist , was born atMilan .Educated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of
political economy at Pavia in 1858.Through his inspiring teaching he has formed a generation of Italian economists into a school. In Germany he had studied with Roscher and this encouraged him to take up work in the history of economics. He emphasised not so much a particular view of the discipline, but rather on sound methods. His "Guida allo studio dell economia politica" is essentially a history of economics.
Apart from this Cossa was the author of several other works which established him a high reputation.
Major works
*"Scienza delle Finanze" (1875, English translation 1888 under title "Taxation, its Principles and Methods")
*"Guida allo studio dell economia politica" (1876, English translation 1880), an admirable compendium of the theoretical preliminaries of economics, with a brief critical history of the science and an excellent bibliography
*"Introduzione allo studio deli economia politica" (1876, English translation by L Dyer, 1893)
*"Saggi di economia politica", 1878.econdary source
* M. Blaug (ed.) - "Who's who in economics" (3d edition), 1999.----
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