Luigi Einaudi: selected Economic Essays, Volume 2

1. Editors’ Introduction
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

2. Luigi Einaudi and Economic Freedom
Mario Draghi

3. Luigi Einaudi
Mervyn King

4. Introduction to Luigi Einaudi
Alberto Alesina

Part I. Einaudi’s Contributions to the Theory of Public Finance

5. Abstract Hypotheses and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgements in Economic Science
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

6. Myths and Paradoxes of Justice in Taxation
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

7. The Physiocratic Theory of Taxation
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

Part II. Einaudi’s Contributions to Monetary Issues

8. The Economic Content of the Lira after the Monetary Reform of 21 December 1927
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

9. On the Methods for Achieving Monetary Stability and if one can still Speak of a Lira Stabilization Crisis
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

10. Theory and Practice; and on Some Distortions Concerning the Equation of Exchange
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

Part III. Einaudi’s Contributions to the History of Economic Thought

11. Galiani, the Economist
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

12. What did Cantillon Say?
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

13. On the Theory of Public Works in Malthus and on the Type of His Prophecies
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

14. Economic Science and Economists at the Present Day
Riccardo Faucci, Roberto Marchionatti

Keywords: Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Policy, Economic History, Methodology/History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics