The Giornale degli Economisti and Paretian Thought

Abstract

Many leading international sites for the dissemination of scientific economic thought were established, and their reputations developed, when the second generation of marginalist economists were placing their authority on the profession. As Magnani (2003, p. 14) has noted, journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics (1886), the Revue d’Èconomie Politique (1897), the Economic Journal (1891), the Journal of Political Economy (1892) and even the American Economic Review (1911) emerged during the epoch of marginalism — the period when the production and dissemination of marginalist ideas was growing rapidly.

‘The Giornale degli Economisti … has always been the journal par excellence of Pareto and his school.’