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A Contemporary Comprehensive Economic Science The Economic Thought and Legacy of Maffeo Pantaleoni

Edited By Stefano Spalletti, Francesca Spigarelli Copyright 2026
254 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Covering Maffeo Pantaleoni’s key areas of contribution to economics, this book provides a comprehensive study of one of the foremost economic thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Called the ‘prince’ of Italian economists by Piero Sraffa, among others, Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924) was an original and innovative thinker but also bizarre and extravagant. As a result he did not... Read more

About the editors

List of contributors

 

Introduction

Stefano Spalletti and Francesca Spigarelli

Maffeo Pantaleoni’s Comprehensive Economic Science 

Stefano Spalletti

1 Marginalism, competition and growth

1.1 Pantaleoni’s Legacy for Economic Ethics: Rethinking Self-interest and Cooperation in light of Cognitive Sciences

Benedetta Giovanola

1.2 Revisiting Pantaleoni’s Theory of Political Prices: Analytical Limitations and Political Topicality

Roberto Lampa and Gianmarco Oro

1.3 Population dynamics and economic growth. Co-evolution and complexity.

Mauro Maria Baldi, Cristiana Mammana and Elisabetta Michetti

1.4 Wealth distribution in Italy: A modern reinterpretation of Pantaleoni’s view

Fabio Clementi and Michele Fabiani

1.5 Maffeo Pantaleoni in Beijing

Francesca Spigarelli

2 Governance of public and private organizations

2.1 Management competencies for public administration governance: reflections in light of Maffeo Pantaleoni’s thought

Katia Giusepponi, Stefano Perri and Ernesto Tavoletti

2.2 Maffeo Pantaleoni: pioneer of the main criteria behind bank bailouts?

Raffaella Coppier and Anna Grazia Quaranta

2.3 Maffeo Pantaleoni’s ‘totalizzatore’ and corporate performance measurement systems

Roberto Del Gobbo, Antonella Paolini and Michela Soverchia

3 History and recent economic approaches

3.1 Rationalism vs. Reality: The Case of Maffeo Pantaleoni

Alberto Zanutto

3.2 Pantaleoni and gender Issues

Elisabetta Croci Angelini

3.3 Large Language Model (LLM) and Economic Thought: a Simple Experiment with Maffeo Pantaleoni

Emanuele Frontoni, Cristian Santini, Paolo Sernani, Stefano Spalletti and Enzo Valentini

Index

 

Biography

Stefano Spalletti is Professor of History of Economic Thought and Coordinator of the Ghino Valenti Research Centre at the University of Macerata.

Francesca Spigarelli, Ph.D., is Professor of Applied Economics. She teaches at the Department of Law on industrial economics, innovation economics and economics.

 

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