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Luca Fiorito

University of Palermo

Viale delle Scienza

Palermo, Palermo 90128

Italy

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Scholarly Papers (12)

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On the Origins of American Business Leaders: Frank W. Taussig, Carl S. Joslyn and the “Brain Trust” of American Eugenics

Fiorito Luca and Massimiliano Vatiero. 2023. "On the Origins of American Business Leaders: Frank W. Taussig, Carl S. Joslyn and the “Brain Trust” of American Eugenics." Journal of Economic Issues, Volume LVII No. 4, pp. 1178-1195.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2023
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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Taussig, Frank Williams, Eugenics, Hereditarianism, Business Leaders, Harvard

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Kate Holladay Claghorn: Progressive Era Paladin of Immigrants’ Rights

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2025
Marianne Johnson and Luca Fiorito
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh - Department of Economics and University of Palermo
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Kate Holladay Claghorn, Progressivism, Immigration, Eugenics, Statistics, Economic Policy

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A Joint Reading of Positional and Relational Goods

Published in Economia Politica, 2013, issue 1, pp. 87-96
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2016
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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positional goods, relational goods

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Frank H. Knight on Social Values in Economic Consumption. An Archival Note

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Jan 2021
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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Frank H. Knight; Social Value; Economic Consumption

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Does Brick Size Matter? Albert G. Keller on Another QWERTY Story

Economics Letters, Vol. 223, 2023
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Jan 2023
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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Lock-in, QWERTY keyboard, institutional lag

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Familyculture: Women and the History of American Eugenics

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2026
Marianne Johnson, Luca Fiorito and C.R. McCann
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh - Department of Economics, University of Palermo and University of Pittsburgh
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On John Bates Clark’s 'Naive Productivity Ethics.' A Note

Forthcoming on History of Political Economy
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2022
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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John Bates Clark, distributive justice, marginal productivity theory, neoclassical economics

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Positional Goods and Social Welfare: A Note on George Pendleton Watkins' Neglected Contribution

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(3):460-472.
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2022
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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Warner Winslow Gardner’s The Institutional Theory of John R. Commons (1933)

Fiorito L. and M. Vatiero (2011), “Warner Winslow Gardner’s The institutional theory of John R. Commons,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 29C:1-12.
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Jan 2023
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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Herbert Metford Thompson and the Generalization of the 'Old Rent Concept': A Note

History of Political Economy, forthcoming.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Feb 2026
Luca Fiorito and Matthew McCaffrey
University of Palermo and University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
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land, rent, H.M. Thompson, John Bates Clark, Alfred Marshall

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At the Origins of Natural Capital: Simon N. Patten, “Natural Forces” and John B. Clark's Theory of Distribution

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Dec 2024
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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Patten, Simon N., Clark, John B., Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution, Natural Capital, Rent.

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Beyond Legal Relations: Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld’s influence on American Institutionalism

Journal of Economic Issues, 45:1, 199-222, 2011, DOI: 10.2753/JEI0021-3624450111
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2025
Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero
University of Palermo and University of TrentoUniversità della Svizzera italiana
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J. M. Clark, J. R. Commons, R. Lee Hale, W. N. Hohfeld, institutionalism