Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia

The Giornale degli economisti e Annali di economia, established in Padua in 1875, is an Italian academic journal of economics.

In the early issues of the journal writers would include Fedele Lampertico, Luigi Luzzatti, Antonio Scialoja, that is to say the most eminent names of the newly formed association.

[3] Between 1876 and 1878, the Giornale degli economisti published both a review of legislation in other European countries on women and child labor, and several investigations on the working conditions in several Italian cities.

The journal, on the basis of military, health and moral considerations, called for legislative action in order to limit the work of married women and children.

The frequency went from bi-monthly to monthly and a few years later the management of the journal moved to Rome, even though printing continued to rely on the Fava & Garagnani typography in Bologna.

Next to protectionists Eugenio Forti and Fedele Lampertico, the Giornale degli economisti added new signatures of the Società Adam Smith founder Tullio Martello and the brilliant young liberal Maffeo Pantaleoni.

[8] The conciliatory formula for "gym of ideas" proved successful and after a few years the Giornale degli economisti ceased to be unprofitable.

Editors of the Giornale degli economisti opposed the customs tariff[12] and the traditional historical left's trade wars with France.

Mazzola died in 1899, when he was only 35 years old, Pantaleoni started to walk away,[17] and Pareto's collaboration stopped as well after being accused for his Cronaca politica page "of injuring rather than reasoning, and therefore unconvincing.

So wide was the change that, during 1900, in part due to looming financial difficulties, a merger with the journal that for many years had been opposing it seemed possible: La riforma sociale.

[19] In the first decade of the twentieth century the journal, increasingly less committed to political analysis, opened its pages to the collaboration of a new generation of scholars.

Antonio Graziadei, Ugo La Malfa, and even Ferruccio Parri collaborated with the journal – the latter signed with the initials FP or under the pseudonym "Any reader".

He could not bear the idea that the Giornale degli economisti would fall into the hands of those who had wanted the racial laws: "Alongside the four children who followed him to Brazil, there was a son of intellect that he could not migrate, and it was the Journal.

As a justification on the last page a communication read: "the work of Italian economists was lost in recent years, in too many review journals.

"[30] Still the same communication announced that Mortara and the journal management board had authorized Bocconi University to add to its Annali di economia the subtitle Giornale degli economisti.

However, the intervention of Giovanni Gentile, vice president of Bocconi University during those years, with his authority would ward off De Stefani's plans.

[36] Equally important was the strong support of the operation by Bocconi University Rector Giovanni Demaria, who directed the new series starting in 1939, now called Giornale degli economisti' e Annali di economia.

[42] Corbino's analysis of merchant vessels was merciless: in the event of a long war the Japanese and the Italian navy were likely to decline to a negligible entity, while the Anglo-American would present a net increase starting in 1943.

To worsen the situation, there was a radio broadcast of American propaganda, intercepted by Italian security services, in which Corbino's article was widely quoted.

[43] Thus, when in May 1942 Demaria's speech during a conference[44] attacked Fascist autarky and proposed the return to economic freedom and an opening to international trade, the regime's reaction was prompt.

Demaria' s report was not published among the conference proceedings and the direction of the Giornale degli economisti, starting from the July–August 1942 issue, was entrusted to Bocconi University Rector Paolo Greco.

Following a review signed "GD"[46] the journal was seized "for anti-patriotic American propaganda" and the consequences for Demaria would have been even worse had it not been for the Gentile's intervention with Bottai and Mussolini.

[48] Articles by Franco Modigliani, Duncan Black, Jan Tinbergen, François roux, Gerhard Tintner, Fritz Machlup, Oskar Morgenstern appeared in the journal.

Of great importance in 1952 would be a report by Marco Fanno[49] at the first meeting of the Società italiana degli economisti and an article by Bruno De Finetti[50] introducing the Arrow-Pratt's theorem.

[51] In 1956 Demaria's report to the second meeting of Società italiana degli economisti was published, in which the external causation of economic cycles was theorized.