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Ultramarginal cost in da Empoli’s work: Towards a general approach to the theory of competition
Massimo Di Matteo, Luigi LuiniHighlights the theory of competition advanced by da Empoli in the late 1920s. The main point is the existence of discontinuities in industrial concerns. This leads to the…
Attilio da Empoli’s English language reception
Peter R. SennThis is a study of Attilio da Empoli’s reception in English. Describes the search to find his works or references to him. Gives details of the search process. There are only a few…
Issues of public finance theory in Attilio da Empoli’s scientific work
Domenicantonio FaustoExamines Attilio da Empoli’s contributions in the field of public finance. This scholar was endowed with particular scientific qualities which allowed him to give original…
About a dispute of some time ago: Umberto Ricci vs Attilio da Empoli
Antonio Maria FuscoReconsiders Umberto Ricci’s harsh comments on the book of the young Attilio da Empoli about the Theory of Economic Equilibrium and also re‐examines da Empoli’s original theses…
Attilio da Empoli’s contribution to monopolistic competition theory
Jan Horst KepplerConsiders the contribution of Attilio da Empoli to the theory of value and distribution and especially his contribution to the theory of monopolistic competition. During the 1920s…
Attilio da Empoli’s significance for economic theory
Marcel A.G. van MeerhaegheIn 1926, at the age of only 22, da Empoli wrote two remarkable, original books, both of which have aroused much interest. Later da Empoli improved and developed their analysis…
A note on the dynamic content of the notion of ultramarginality
Pier Luigi PortaEmphasizes some aspects of ultra‐marginality in Attilio da Empoli’s main contributions and argues that those concepts could have provided a prelude to a wider reconsideration of…
Competition as a rivalrous process: Attilio da Empoli and the years of high theory that might have been
Richard E. WagnerThe Theory of Economic Equilibrium was written in the period of what George Shackle calls the “Years of High Theory”. Unlike the works that Shackle discusses, da Empoli’s volume…
Notes on Attilio da Empoli’s Teoria dell’Incidenza delle Imposte: Oblique tax shifting and other themes
Christopher RyanThis paper is a preliminary examination of a recently available translation of Attilio da Empoli’s 1926 Theory of Tax Incidence. This work has remained practically unknown to…
Da Empoli’s theory of equilibrium in retrospect
Gerrit MeijerTries to assess the place of Da Empoli’s Theory of Economic Equilibrium, a book on the development of thinking on market structures and price theory. It is an early and important…
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