[3] In 1963 Vianello graduated with a degree in law from the University of Bologna, presenting a thesis on Italian economic development under the supervision of Paolo Sylos Labini.

In 1966 Vianello enrolled as an undergraduate student at Jesus College, Cambridge, and began attending economic courses taught by Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Richard Kahn and James Meade.

During his career Prof. Vianello had the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most important Italian economists of the twentieth century, such as Federico Caffè, Paolo Sylos Labini and Pierangelo Garegnani.

Regarding the Italian economy, he first studied the aftermath of the Second World War, then the answer to the workers' struggles of the sixties and early seventies, and most recently Italy's adhesion to the European single currency.

Finally, he studied the issues of prices, interest rate and effective demand, and developed ideas that were stimulated by the writings of John Maynard Keynes.