SCIALOJA, Antonio.

I Principj della economia sociale esposti in ordine ideologico ...

Naples, Gennaro Palma, 1840. 8vo, pp. 379, [1] errata; red crayon mark to the front free endpaper; some occasional light foxing, but a nice, bright copy in contemporary quarter roan, corners rubbed, spine decorated gilt. First edition, very rare. Antonio Scialoja (1817–1877) studied at Naples, publishing the Principi della economia sociale (1840) there when he was only 22. It proved a great success in Italy and elsewhere, receiving many editions in Italian and a translation into French in 1843. In 1846, Scialoja went to Turin to occupy its recently re-established chair of political economy. ‘Scialoja’s book, I Principii d’economia sociale, is, considering the date when it was written, a very noteworthy book. The author discusses broadly the principal arguments of economics and finance, following in the footsteps of English economists and in their temperate but ecletic views. In this, as in his other works, Scialoja stoutly upheld the principles of liberty, at a date when Naples was the stronghold of absolutism and protection. In the Principii, he asserts the importance of mathematics in economic researches, and recognises the expediency of using them, especially in the theory of value’ (Palgrave).In his discussion of the Italian economic thinking of the time, Schumpeter terms Scialoja, together with Pellegrino Rossi, as ‘two men of conspicuous brilliance’ (p. 510).Goldsmiths’ 31364 (inscribed by Scialoja to McCulloch); this edition not in Einaudi or Kress Italian; OCLC locates only 2 copies, at Purdue and Michigan.

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