FERRARA, Francesco.

Esame storico-critico di economisti e dottrine economiche del secolo XVIII e prima metà del XIX ... Volume primo parte prima [– Volume secondo parte seconda] ...

Turin, Rome and Naples, Unione tipografico-editrice, 1889–91. Four parts in four vols, 8vo, pp. vii, [1] blank, 692; [iv], 717, [2] advertisements, [1] blank; [iv], 667, [1] blank; [iv], 621, [1] blank, [1] note, [1] blank; ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper and half-title of vol. I; very occasional pencil underlining; some foxing, heavier to the initial and final couple of leaves; conemporary quarter cloth, extremities worn, spines lettered gilt, gilt initials C.L.S. at foot. Rare first edition of Ferrara’s ‘most important work’ (Schumpeter, p. 513), drawn together from the prefaces to the first two series of the Biblioteca degli economisti. Ferrara’s prefaces rank as the standard Italian history of economic thought in the nineteenth century, comparable to the work of McCulloch in Britain and Roscher in Germany.Ferrara (1810–1900) is an important figure in Italian economics. ‘His economic achievements are such that he is highly regarded by all the greatest Italian economists (Pareto, Pantaleoni, Einaudi [who called him “il maggior economista italiano nell’epoca del Risorgimento”], Del Vecchio) as having inspired and created an Italian economic school of thought. Ferrara has a double claim to this. As the founder of an Economists’ Library, of which he edited the first two series. he brought the greatest foreign economists within the sphere of Italian cultural life, writing perceptive prefaces to the translations of their works. Guided by his extraordinary knowledge of economic thought, he included translations of the works of authors such as Henry Carey at a time when that author’s work was forgotten even by his fellow-Americans. As a theoretician, Ferrara pursued vigorous polemics against the German historical school, which rejected the theoretical method in economics’ (The New Palgrave).Not in Einaudi; OCLC locates copies at New York Public Library and Chicago only.

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