SCIALOJA, Antonio.

I Principî della economia sociale esposti in ordine ideologico ... II. edizione riveduta, corretta ed aumentata.

Turin, Giuseppe Pomba, 1846. Small 8vo, pp. xxx, 333, [1] blank + errata leaf; with an engraved title; scattered foxing throughout, more so at the beginning; contemporary quarter calf, lightly rubbed, spine lettered and decorated gilt; bookplate to front pastedown. Second edition, enlarged. 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, the year of this, the second edition, 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 calls Scialoja, and Pellegrino Rossi, ‘two men of conspicuous brilliance’ (p. 510).Einaudi 5179; Kress Italian 1163 (‘Section 1, chapter 6 and section 3, chapter 7 are the major additions’); this edition not in Goldsmiths’ (cf. 31364 for the Collection’s copy of the rare first edition, inscribed by Scialoja to McCulloch; the first edition is not listed in either Einaudi or Kress Italian, and OCLC locates only 2 copies).

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