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Author-Name: Stefano Spalletti
Author-Name: Roberto Lampa

Title: Pantaleoni at 100: An Assessment
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Pages:5-12
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Manuela Mosca

Title: The Masculinity of Homo Oeconomicus.
Maffeo Pantaleoni and Feminism
Abstract: The paper discusses Pantaleoni?s feminism, as explicitly attributed to him by Pareto, against the backdrop of the first wave of feminism in the Western world. Pantaleoni was personally in contact with feminists from the aristocracy and upper-middle class and supported many of their initiatives in favour of women. The article examines Pantaleoni?s scarce writings on women?s behaviour and role in society, as well as his views on the feminist movement. Pantaleoni?s favoured subject of enquiry, as well as the distinguishing feature of pure economics, was homo oeconomicus, a figure whose actual existence he never doubted and to whose popularity he made a crucial contribution. In the 1990s, feminist economics criticised the neoclassical approach, denouncing the androcentric bias in its notion of rationality and thus the masculinity of homo oeconomicus. In response, microeconomists argued that homo oeconomicus is an ungendered, abstract, universal category. By reconstructing the features of economic rationality that Pantaleoni attributed exclusively to men, this article provides a crucial element into the masculine connotation of homo oeconomicus.
Classification-JEL: B13, B41, B54, J16, K38
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Pages:13-36
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Motohiro Okada

Title: Pantaleoni and Pareto on Labour Issues
Abstract: This essay provides a parallel review of Maffeo Pantaleoni?s and Vilfredo Pareto?s thoughts on labour issues. Despite noteworthy differences in their theoretical angles on labour, both Pantaleoni and Pareto had faith in the self-regulating function of labour markets. Pantaleoni?s and Pareto?s adherence to this neoclassicism-backed liberal creed in contradiction to the nature of capitalistic labour caused vicissitudes of their attitudes towards industrial relations. With changes in Italy?s industrial relations, Pantaleoni and Pareto shifted from being sympathetic to antagonistic towards labour movements. They finally inclined to Fascism in the expectation that the Fascists could restore market-directed Italian capitalism by ruthlessly crushing workers? power. Thus, this essay illuminates strong affinities between Pantaleoni?s and Pareto?s thoughts on labour issues.
Classification-JEL: B13, J01, J50
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Pages:37-57
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Nicola Giocoli

Title: Strong, Weak, and Zero-Sum: A Commonsean
Solution to Maffeo Pantaleoni?s Quest
for Contractual Settlements
Abstract: The paper explores Maffeo Pantaleoni?s 1898 essay, focusing on his analysis of why rational agents enter mutualistic agreements, i.e. contracts, despite common predatory and parasitic behaviors. Pantaleoni classifies social relationships into predatory, parasitic, and mutualistic categories, anticipating the zero-sum logic where wealth is redistributed rather than created. The paper highlights the limitations of Pantaleoni?s neglect of the legal system in shaping contracts, contrasting his ideas with legal realism, which emphasizes law?s role in reducing transaction costs. It also connects Pantaleoni?s work with John Rogers Commons?s theory, extending his ideas into modern institutional economics.
Classification-JEL: B13, K10, P48
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Pages:59-79
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Nicol? Bellanca

Title: Political Prices and Institutional Obstacles
in Maffeo Pantaleoni
Abstract: Maffeo Pantaleoni?s concepts of political prices and economic prices explore institutional change and the dynamics of rent-seeking society. He distinguishes between objective discriminations, which conform to the reproductive logic of an institution, and those that are entirely arbitrary. Additionally, he distinguishes between criteria of impartiality, which treat everyone the same way, and criteria of universalizability, which apply a rule regardless of whom it may benefit or harm. Through these concepts, he defines economic prices as characterized by proscriptive rules, which prohibit certain choices, rather than prescriptive rules, which allow certain options for some and not for others. They cannot eliminate privileges, but they eliminate privileged access to privileges. Their antithesis is political prices, which emerge when groups compete with each other to grab rents and maintain privileges. The more the system of political prices generalizes across all institutions (private, public, commercial) of society, the less it can sustain itself, as every group desires to benefit from it, but no one wants to finance it. Here lies the historical resilience of economic prices.
Classification-JEL: B15, E7, K4, O11, P5
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Pages:81-94
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Claudia Rotondi

Title: Economics and History in Pantaleoni:
Distances and Proximities
Abstract: The significant presence of history in Pantaleoni?s writings, both in reference to ideas and economic facts, suggests caution against an interpretation of his position in the methodological debate between detractors and supporters of the positive interaction between economic theory and history that lacks nuance. This contribution aims to investigate ? against the backdrop of the broader theme of the separation or useful contamination between economic and historical knowledge ? the role that history can play, according to Pantaleoni, for an economic science that aspires to be ?pure?. To this end, it examines both his writings and discussions on the topic with other economist colleagues. Finally, some reflections are proposed on the issue of generality versus historical specificity in the development of economic theory today.
Classification-JEL: A11, B15, B31, B40
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Pages:95-124
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Piero Bini

Title: Pantaleoni and Italy in the Great War
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine Maffeo Pantaleoni?s position on the events surrounding the First World War. The first part presents his thoughts on the nature and causes of the Great War, the possible specificities of an economic theory of war, and his analysis of the cost and financing of war. Then, the attention is focused on his proposals for the constitution of the ?shareholder State?. I will then present his geo-economic analysis of the autarkic tendencies of economic systems in times of war and his anti-corporatist approach to economic nationalism. This will be followed by the discussion on his position on the so-called ?Jewish international?, seeking to delimit the nature of his anti-Semitism. The last paragraph is devoted to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the constitution of the League of Nations, both of which he criticized severely. As an alternative, he proposed a common European army under the authority of a federal body.
Classification-JEL: B1, E650, F510, H820, N44
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Pages:126-155
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Luca Tedesco
Author-Name: Roberto Ricciuti

Title: The State in Pantaleoni: A Theoretical Analysis
in Evolution
Abstract: Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924) maintained that the liberal State should be based on general, universal norms, therefore rejecting those aimed at taking care of special interests. This view was not incompatible with the expansion of the scope of the government. However, the actual government intervention that took place in Italy made him aware of the necessity of restoring a classical, liberal state, which he saw as possible with the advent of Fascism.
Classification-JEL: B13, B31, D72, D78, H11
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Pages:157-175
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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Author-Name: Stefano Spalletti

Title: Bibliography of Writings on Maffeo Pantaleoni
(1999-2024)
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Pages:177-187
Volume: 2025/1
Year: 2025
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