| Sumario: | Part of a special issue commemorating Laurence Moss. A reprint of an article by Moss that appeared in History of Political Economy, vol. 35, 2003, pp. 205–239. The writer provides a detailed insight into the debate between Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth about the analysis of tax incidence. He chronicles the dispute via a review of the publications in which it was conducted, beginning with Seligman's 1892 text, On the Shifting and Incidence of Taxation, and ending with Edgeworth's “Applications of Probabilities to Economics” in the Economic Journal, 1910. He contends that this long-drawn controversy can be identified as a preface to all future debates regarding the relevance and applicability of advanced mathematical tools in economics.
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