... appraisal. The first book, Teoria dell’Incidenza delle Imposte (1926), makes a profounder analysis and hence modifies partly the then accepted tax theory. This theory was reflected in Seligman’s works and had benefited especially from many Italian contributions (e.g. by Pantaleoni, Einaudi...

...Jan Horst Keppler Considers the contribution of Attilio da Empoli to the theory of value and distribution and especially his contribution to the theory of monopolistic competition. During the 1920s a lively discussion developed about the link between the cost structure of the individual firm...

...Antonio Maria Fusco Reconsiders Umberto Ricci’s harsh comments on the book of the young Attilio da Empoli about the Theory of Economic Equilibrium and also re‐examines da Empoli’s original theses about “ultramarginality” that aroused Umberto Ricci’s fierce criticism. In his reply, da Empoli...

...Gerrit Meijer Tries to assess the place of Da Empoli’s Theory of Economic Equilibrium, a book on the development of thinking on market structures and price theory. It is an early and important, though almost neglected, contribution. Neglected because the main developments in the 1930s and later...

...Pier Luigi Porta Emphasizes some aspects of ultra‐marginality in Attilio da Empoli’s main contributions and argues that those concepts could have provided a prelude to a wider reconsideration of dynamic theory in political economy. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Theory Economics Politics...