Abstract

Economics has an important role in Croce's system, belonging, together with ethics, to the philosophy of the practical. Moreover, Croce disputed with Pareto on the foundations of economics. This dispute and final Croce's systematization are presented and discussed in the paper in some detail. Croce separated sharply the Science of economics from the Philosophy of economics and asserted that the former, as well as every naturalistic science, does not lead to the true knowledge, but it is only mathematics applied to the concept of volition with a practical scope.