Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is well known as the founder of the subjective theory of probability. Less known, with a few exceptions, is his contribution to economic theory during the early stage of his scientific career. In the second half of the 1930s, de Finetti was passionately involved in the field of welfare economics. To provide a theoretical framework for evaluating social welfare and to help in designing public policies, he developed a new mathematical tool: the theory of simultaneous maxima. Using this analytical approach, he also advanced the idea of a social welfare function, albeit quite different from the one introduced in 1938 by Abram Bergson, reflecting the debate on the economic planning among Italian economists.
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Titolo del capitolo
Bruno de Finetti economista corporativo: dall’economia programmata alla costruzione della funzione di preferenza sociale
Autori
Mario Pomini
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-455-7.08
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Anno di pubblicazione
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Le sirene del corporativismo e l'isolamento dei dissidenti durante il fascismo
Curatori
Piero Barucci, Piero Bini, Lucilla Conigliello
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Numero di pagine
264
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-455-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-452-6
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978-88-5518-455-7
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919