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The Italian literature on public goods is largely untranslated, although 
the 
Musgrave and Peacock collection does contain some translated 
excerpts--along 
with some from Wicksell and other assorted continental thinkers.  There is 
a 
nice survey of the Italian literature written by Jim Buchanan.  An appendix 
to Buchanan and Tullock's THE CALCULUS OF CONSENT also contains a nice 
historical survey. 
 
Finally, I would dispute the notion that things really begin with 
Samuelson. 
As Larry Willmore notes, there is more than a little in Mill, and there is 
plenty in Pigou's ECONOMICS OF WELFARE.  The mid-19th-century French 
engineering tradition makes some useful contributions to the public good 
literature--e.g., in the cost-benefit work of Jules Dupuit and others. 
 
I append some article and book references. 
 
 
Black, Duncan (1955), “Wicksell’s Principle in the Distribution of 
Taxation. 
In J.K. Eastham, ed., Economic Essays in Commemoration of the Dundee School 
of Economics 1931-1955. Coupar Angus: William Culross and Son. 
 
______ (1958), The Theory of Committees and Elections, Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press. 
 
______ (1996), “How Expenditure of the Tax Proceeds Came to be Disregarded 
in the Theory of Incidence,” in Gordon L. Brady and Gordon Tullock, eds., 
Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice: The Unpublished Works 
of Duncan Black, Boston: Kluwer. 
 
Buchanan, James M. (1960), “La Scienza delle finanze: The Italian Tradition 
in Fiscal Theory,” in James M. Buchanan, Fiscal Theory and Political 
Economy: Selected Essays. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina 
Press.  Reprinted in James M. Buchanan, Economics: Between Predictive 
Science and Moral Philosophy, edited by Robert D. Tollison and Viktor J. 
VanBerg.  College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. 
 
Buchanan, James M. and Gordon Tullock (1962), The Calculus of Consent, Ann 
Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 
 
De Viti De Marco, Antonio (1936), First Principles of Public Finance, 
translated from the Italian by Edith Pavlo Marget, London: Jonathan Cape. 
 
Einaudi, Luigi (1936), “Introduction,” in Antonio De Viti De Marco, First 
Principles of Public Finance, translated from the Italian by Edith Pavlo 
Marget, London: Jonathan Cape. 
 
Head, John G. (1974), Public Goods and Public Welfare. Durham, NC: Duke 
University Press. 
 
______ (1982), “Wicksell and Pareto: Their Relationship in the Theory of 
Public Finance,” History of Political Economy 14 (Spring): 37-64.  
Reprinted 
in Pieter Hennipman, Welfare Economics and the Theory of Economic Policy, 
edited by Donald Walker, Arnold Heertje, and Hans van den Doel.  Aldershot: 
Edward Elgar, 1995, pp. 214-39. 
 
Kayaalp, Orhan (1985), “Public Choice Elements in the Italian Theory of 
Public Goods,” Public Finance/Finances Publiques 3: 395-410. 
 
______ (1988), “Ugo Mazzola and the Italian Theory of Public Goods,” 
History 
of Political Economy 20 (Spring): 15-25. 
 
______ (1989), “Early Italian Contributions to the Theory of Public 
Finance: 
Pantaleoni, De Viti de Marco, and Mazzola,” in Donald A. Walker, ed., 
Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, Volume 1: Classical and 
Neoclassical Economic Thought. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 155-166. 
 
Mazzola, Ugo (1890), “The Formation of the Prices of Public Goods,” 
translated by Elizabeth Henderson.  In Richard A. Musgrave and Alan T. 
Peacock, eds., Classics in the Theory of Public Finance. London: Macmillan, 
1958, pp. 37-47.  Originally published as I dati scientifici della finanza 
pubblica, Rome 1890, Chapter IX, pp. 159-83. 
 
Montemartini, Giovanni (1900), “The Fundamental Principles of a Pure Theory 
of Public Finance,” translated by D. Bevan.  In Richard A. Musgrave and 
Alan 
T. Peacock, eds., Classics in the Theory of Public Finance. London: 
Macmillan, 1958, pp. 137-51.  Originally published as “Le basi fondamentali 
di una scienza finanziaria pura,” Giornale degli Economisti, 1900, II. 
Musgrave, Richard A. (1959), The Theory of Public Finance. New York: 
McGraw-Hill. 
 
Musgrave, Richard A. and Alan T. Peacock (1958), “Introduction,” in 
Classics 
in the Theory of Public Finance. London: Macmillan, pp. ix-xix. 
 
Pantaleoni, Maffeo (1883), “Contribution to the Theory of the Distribution 
of Public Expenditure,” translated by D. Bevan.  In Richard A. Musgrave and 
Alan T. Peacock, eds., Classics in the Theory of Public Finance. London: 
Macmillan, 1958, pp. 16-27.  Originally published as “Contributo alla 
teoria 
del riparto delle spese pubbliche,” Rassegna Italiana, October 15, 1883; 
reprinted in Maffeo Pantaleoni, Scritti varii di Economia, Vol. 1, Rome 
1904, pp. 49-110. 
 
Peacock, Alan (1987), “Wicksell and Public Choice,” in John Eatwell, Murray 
Milgate, and Peter Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of 
Economics. London: Macmillan, pp. 692-95. 
 
______ (1992), Public Choice Analysis in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press. 
 
Puviani, Amilcare (1897), Teoria della illusione nelle entrate publiche. 
Perugia. 
 
Robbins, Lionel (1952), The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical 
Political Economy. London: Macmillan. 
 
Samuels, Warren J. (1966), The Classical Theory of Economic Policy. 
Cleveland: World. 
 
Sax, Emil (1924), “The Valuation Theory of Taxation,” translated by 
Elizabeth Henderson.  In Richard A. Musgrave and Alan T. Peacock, eds., 
Classics in the Theory of Public Finance. London: Macmillan, 1958, pp. 
177-189. 
 
Simons, Henry C. (1937), “Review of First Principles of Public Finance by 
Antonio de Viti de Marco,” American Economic Review 45 (October): 712-17. 
 
Wagner, Adolf (1883), “Three Extracts on Public Finance,” translated by 
Nancy Cooke.  In Richard A. Musgrave and Alan T. Peacock, eds., Classics in 
the Theory of Public Finance. London: Macmillan, 1958, pp. 1-15. 
Wicksell, Knut (1896a), Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen, Jena: Gustav 
Fischer. 
 
______ (1896b), “A New Principle of Just Taxation,” translated by J.M. 
Buchanan.  In Richard A. Musgrave and Alan T. Peacock, eds., Classics in 
the 
Theory of Public Finance. London: Macmillan, 1958, pp. 72-118. 
 
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