Towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century, we can find at international level a strong debate developed on progressive income tax and its application methods In Italy the discussion was particularly intense, given the great importance of public finance. Italian economists were little attracted to the utilitarian setting, preferring other directions of research. One of these aimed at the construction of the rational income tax, in the sense of a tax that would not lead to a confiscation and a reduction of the net income. Ulisse Gobbi and Raffaele D'Addario were the main exponents of this positivistic view of progressive income tax. In particular, the contribution by D'Addario revealed the implications of the progressive tax. He clarified, using the net income method, the conditions for avoiding the negative effects of a strong progressivity. Starting from the hypothesis of an elasticity constant, it found a general expression for the structure of the progressive tax. Dì'Addario anticipated in the Sixties the so called Laffer effect. progressive tax. Dì'Addario anticipated in the Sixties the so called Laffer effect.
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Titolo del capitolo
Raffaele D’Addario e la matematica dell’imposta progressiva sul reddito
Autori
Mario Pomini
Lingua
Italiano
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
L’Italia repubblicana in cammino
Sottotitolo del libro
Ricostruzione, crescita, instabilità
Curatori
Piero Bini, Antonio Magliulo, Letizia Pagliai
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
264
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0774-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0775-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0776-8
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919