Luigi Einaudi: Selected Economic Writings

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Editors’ Introduction....Pages 1-25
Know before Legislating....Pages 27-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Lectures on the Market....Pages 39-65
The Beauty of the Struggle....Pages 66-72
Economic Liberalism and Political Liberalism....Pages 73-79
The End of ‘Laissez-faire’?....Pages 80-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
On other Pseudo-commercial and Pseudo-bank Containers....Pages 87-98
Banks with Adjectives....Pages 99-102
Are there too many Banks in Italy?....Pages 103-111
Debts....Pages 112-123
My Plan is not Keynes’s....Pages 124-136
The Concluding Remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy for the year 1946....Pages 137-152
The Theory of Imaginary Money from Charlemagne to the French Revolution....Pages 153-181
Noise....Pages 182-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Contribution to the Quest for an ‘Optimal Tax’....Pages 189-216
On the Source of Saving and the Taxation of Normal Income as an Approximation of the Exclusion of Income from the Tax Base....Pages 217-228
The Optimal Tax as a Neutral Tax, in the Physiocrats, in Smith and the Italian Catastisti of the Eighteenth Century....Pages 229-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Why we need a European Economic Federation....Pages 245-249
The Economic Tasks of the Federation....Pages 250-257
The Instruments of the Federal Administration....Pages 258-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-322