Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pina Travagliante Author-Email: Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Catania - Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche Title: Verso la 'soddisfazione armonica' dei bisogni individuali e collettivi. La Scienza delle finanze di Giuseppe Ricca Salerno (Towards the 'harmonic satisfaction' of individual and collective needs. Giuseppe Ricca Salerno's public finance) Abstract: Public finance represents, for Giuseppe Ricca Salerno, a means to satisfy collective needs and to achieve efficiency targets. Going beyond the typical ideas of the 1880s, Ricca Salerno introduces new notions inspired by Emil Sax’s analyses and by marginalism, such as relative utility, marginal benefit and collective needs Classification-JEL: B12, B13, B31, E60 Keywords: Ricca Salerno; liberalismo; marginalismo; bisogni collettivi (Ricca Salerno; liberalism; marginalism; collective needs) Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano Pages: 37-55 Volume: 18 Issue: 2 Year: 2010 File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201006302&rivista=63 Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:18:y:2010:2:2:p:37-55