Luigi Cossa

Luigi Cossa (May 27, 1831 - May 10, 1896), Italian economist, was born at Milan.

Educated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of political economy at Pavia in 1858.

Cossa was the author of several works which established for him a high reputation; including:

Scienza delle Finanze (1875, English translation 1888 under title Taxation, its Principles and Methods)
Guida allo studio dell economia politica (1876, English translation 1880), an admirable compendium of the theoretical preliminaries of economics, with a brief critical history of the science and an excellent bibliography
Introduzione allo studio deli economia politica (1876, English translation by L Dyer, 1893)
Saggi di economia politica, 1878.

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