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Luigi Cossa
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or LUIGI COSSA (1831-1896), Italian economist, was born at Milan on the 27th of May 1831. Educated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of political economy at Pavia in 1858. He died at Pavia on the 10th of May 1896. 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 2 See Bundahish, xv. 2 (S.B.E., v. 53).
brief critical history of the science and an excellent bibliography; Introduzione allo studio dell' economia politica (1876, English translation by L. Dyer, 1893); and Saggi di economia politica, 1878.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Luigi Cossa'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/luigi-cossa.html. 1910.
