I have then no objection to make to the meaning which Trivero wishes to give to the word need; but I must assert that, having given it this meaning, he has not afterwards constructed the theory of anything, nor thrown light on any special group of facts.
For real economic theory his book is quite useless. Economists do not recognise the needs of things and plants and animals, but only human needs, or those of man in so far as he is homo oeconomicus and hence a conscious being. I too believe that it is right to work out philosophically the principle of economics; but in order to do this, Trivero should have studied economic science. He declares that 'he does not want to hold fast to anyone's petticoats.' This statement is superfluous if it means that each individual ought to base his own scientific convictions on reason and not on authority. It is dangerous if it signifies, on the contrary, an intention to spare himself the trouble of studying other people's books, and of reconstructing everything from the beginning by his own personal efforts and by the aid of general culture alone. The result obtained—being far from satisfactory—should deter the author (who will not grumble at my plain speaking), from returning to this unfruitful method in the future.
[100] Pareto answers this second letter in the Giornale degli economisti, February, 1901, pp. 131-138.
INDEX OF NAMES*[ToC]
*Marx's name is omitted. The Asterisks indicate notes.
- Aristotle, 18
- Aveling, E., 66*
- Bauer, B., 102
- Bernstein, E., 119
- Bertolini, A., 96
- Böhm-Bawerk, 54, 76,* 142
- Bray, 103
- Coletti, F., 115*
- Croce, B., 129,* 131*
- Dühring, E. 69, 79,* 84, 103, 114
- Durckheim, E., 118
- Ehrenfels, Christian Von, 168, 172
- Engels, F., 7, 11, 14, 18, 19, 25, 26, 28, 41, 55, 63, 67, 69, 78-81, 83, 84, 89, 95,* 103, 114-116, 124, 131*
- Fechner, 180
- Ferrara, F., 127
- Gentile, G., 80,* 83,* 86,* 104,* 115*
- Gray, A., 103
- Graziadei, A., 138-140, 179*
- Grosse, E., 90*
- Hegel, G.F., 6, 11, 81-82, 102, 122, 130
- Heine, H., 130
- Helvetius, 8
- Herbart, 24, 25
- Holbach, 8
- Kant, E., 24, 25, 43, 113-114, 179
- Kautsky, K., 119, 137
- Ingram, 95*
- Jevons, 72
- Labriola, Antonio, 1, 5, 9, 10-15, 18, 21-26, 51,* 55, 76, 84,* 86-93, 106, 109,* 110, 111, 114, 119, 120-132
- Lange, A.F., 8, 41, 71, 72*
- Leibniz, 160
- Loria, A., 49, 91, 138, 142
- Machiavelli, N., 110,* 118
- Manzoni, A., 19
- Mommsen, T., 122
- Morgan, 89
- More, Thomas, 19*
- Pantaleoni, M., 76,* 96, 127, 171
- Parrto, V., 74, 76,* 96-101, 159-186
- Plechanow, G., 8
- Proudhon, P.G., 103
- Rabelais, 105
- Ricardo, D., 53, 135, 156, 157*
- Ricca, Salermo G., 77*
- Richter, G.P., 18
- Rodbertus, K., 103*
- Rosmini, 102
- Rümalin, 36
- Sanctis (de), F., 110*
- Schiller, 25*
- Schmidt, C., 54
- Schopenhauer, A., 102
- Simmel, G., 5, 24, 118
- Smith, A., 74*
- Sombart, W., 54,* 55, 60, 63, 131,* 142
- Sorel, G., 55, 86,* 119, 131-138
- Spencer, H., 36, 178
- Stammler, R., 27-47, 118, 137,* 138, 170
- Stein, L., 18
- Stern, G., 133
- Trivero, C, 181,* 182
- Villari, P., 110*
- Wagner, A., 73*
- Westermarck, E., 90*
- Witte, 78
- Wundt, 180*