Background
Luigi Cossa was born at Milan on the 27th of May 1831.
Luigi Cossa was born at Milan on the 27th of May 1831.
Luigi Cossa was ducated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of political economy at Pavia in 1858.
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 alio studio dell' economia politico (1876, English translation 1880), an admirable compendium of the theoretical preliminaries of economics.