Vincenzo Tangorra

Vincenzo Tangorra (born December 8, 1866 in Venosa , † December 21, 1922 in Rome ) was an Italian economist and politician .

Life

Tangorra was a Member of Parliament in Italy for eight years before Mussolini . Shortly after the fascists came to power, and shortly before his death, he joined Mussolini's government as Minister of the Treasury.

He taught public finance and finance law from 1902 to 1919 and then until 1922 political economy at the University of Pisa .

In terms of its political economy, Tangorra was, at least for a long time, rather liberal. One of his fundamental questions was how far state interventions can go in order to increase the prosperity of the people without excessive bureaucratic excesses. There is a public need, he writes in 1915, when it can be done better or cheaper by the state than by private individuals. He sees an intermediate form in the “private collective needs”, which must be met collectively, but for which the state is not needed directly, but only with the enactment of legal foundations. Public services are often "divisible" insofar as they can be settled through fees and do not necessarily have to be paid for through tax revenues. Tangorra sees the railroad, post office and telephone for example. B. as such cases.

Works (selection)

• La teoria economica del costo di produione. Tipografia agostiniana, Rome 1893.
• Per la teoria del fondo dei salari. Rome 1894.
• Il controllo finanziario. Rod. tip. italiano, Rome 1898.
• Il diritto finanziario ei suoi odierni problemi. Unione tipografico-editrice, Turin 1900.
• Trattato di scienza della finanza. Società editrice libraria, Milan 1915.

literature

• Paul Keller: Dogma History of Interventionism in Prosperity. (Diss.) PG Keller, Winterthur 1955.

Web links

• Tangorra, Vincenzo in the Enciclopedia Italiana (1937)
• Literature by and about Vincenzo Tangorra in the WorldCat bibliographic database