When Economics Talked to Society: The Life, Thought and Works

Seventy years have passed since the death of Maffeo Pantaleoni in Milan on 29 October 1924, a long period of time during which economists and historians have had several occasions on which to compare their views on Pantaleoni’s complex scientific and cultural inheritance. And yet, despite the waning of passions favoured by the passing of time, the panorama of interpretations and references to the works of this scholar from Macerata is even today very varied, ranging from almost fideist admiration on the one hand to very reductive assessments of his scientific personality on the other.