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.

Apart from this Cossa was the author of several other works which established him a high reputation.

Major works

• 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.

Secondary source

• M. Blaug (ed.) - Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.