Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is well known as the founder of the subjective theory of probability. Less known, with a few exceptions, is his contribution to economic theory during the early stage of his scientific career. In the second half of the 1930s, de Finetti was passionately involved in the field of welfare economics. To provide a theoretical framework for evaluating social welfare and to help in designing public policies, he developed a new mathematical tool: the theory of simultaneous maxima. Using this analytical approach, he also advanced the idea of a social welfare function, albeit quite different from the one introduced in 1938 by Abram Bergson, reflecting the debate on the economic planning among Italian economists.
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Chapter Title
Bruno de Finetti economista corporativo: dall’economia programmata alla costruzione della funzione di preferenza sociale
Authors
Mario Pomini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-455-7.08
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
Le sirene del corporativismo e l'isolamento dei dissidenti durante il fascismo
Editors
Piero Barucci, Piero Bini, Lucilla Conigliello
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Number of Pages
264
Publication Year
2021
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-455-7
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978-88-5518-452-6
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978-88-5518-455-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
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2704-5919