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A Case Study in Early Mathematical Economics: Pietro Verri and Paolo Frisi, 1772

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Paola Tubaro
Paola Tubaro
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P.H.A.R.E., Université Paris 10—Nanterre, 200, avenue de la Republique, 92001 Nanterre cedex, France.
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In eighteenth-century Italy a number of interesting efforts were made to apply mathematical methods to economic analysis. Scholars living in the Milan area were especially keen on mathematizing economic issues. R. D. Theocharis identified a common current of thought, which he called the Milanese School, in his pioneering research on early mathematical economics (Theocharis 1983, p. 2).

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 195 - 214
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2002

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