Manual of Political Economy: A Critical and Variorum Edition

About Vilfredo Pareto

Aldo Montesano is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan Italy. From 1983 to 2008 he was editor of the International Review of Economics (formerly RISEC Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali). He is fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. He was President of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica (Storep) from 2006 to 2009. He has published numerous articles mainly on microeconomics decision theory and the history of economic thought and methodology. Alberto Zanni now retired was formally Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He is a graduate from the European University Centre at Nancy Université (France) where he was subsequently employed as a translator and researcher. After his appointment to the Università degli Studi di Firenze Dr Zanni's scholarship largely focused on the history of economic thought. He has written numerous articles for Quaderni di Storia dell'Economia Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali Studi Economici and Storia del pensiero economico as well as articles for the journal History of Economic Ideas. Luigino Bruni is associate professor of Political Economy at the University of Milan Bicocca. He received his Doctorate in the History of Economics and his PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia. He is also adjunct professor of 'Ethics and Economics' at the Liverpool Hope University. His research covers different areas of economics and the social sciences ranging from ethics and economics history of economic thought methodology of economics and sociality and happiness in economics. He co-editor of the International Review of Economics and member of the board of the Review of Social Economy. John S. Chipman is Regents' Professor of Economics Emeritus University of Minnesota Minneapolis having retired in 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 1951 was a postdoctoral fellow and guest of the Cowles Commission at the University of Chicago in 1950-51 and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University 1951-55. He was also a Permanent Guest Professor at the University of Konstanz June-July 1986-1991 and a Visiting Professor there June-July 1992-1997. He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society (1957) of the American Statistical Association (1974) and a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (1999); he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (1993) of the International Statistical Institute (1994) and of the history of thought section of the Verein für Socialpolitik Berlin (2000). Michael McLure is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Australia and author of Pareto Economics and Society (Rouledge 2001) and The Paretian School and Italian Fiscal Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan 2007). From 2007 to 2011 he was the joint editor of the History of Economics Review and he jointly edited the 4 volume Vilfredo Pareto: Critical Assessments (Routledge 1999). Professor McLure has published numerous articles on the history of Paretian and Pigouvian economics in scholarly journals.