Mauro Leo Baranzini (born 31 August 1944 in Bellinzona, Switzerland)[1] is a Swiss economist of the Cambridge Post-Keynesian school of thought.
He was a student of Bruno Caizzi at the Scuola Superiore di Commercio of Bellinzona; of Pietro Balestra and Bernard Schmitt at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland; of David Soskice, John S. Flemming and Sir James A. Mirrlees at Oxford.
Later on, while at the University of Cambridge, U.K., he came under the influence of the two senior post-Keynesian economists: Luigi Lodovico Pasinetti and Geoff Harcourt.
Mauro Baranzini was born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, 31 August 1944, son of Leo Johann Baranzini-Franki, a railways worker, and of Germana Nonella-Bassi of Sant’Antonino.
In Switzerland he was for numerous years a member (and then chairman) of Canton Ticino's Research Committee on behalf of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and a co-founder of the Centre for Banking Studies in Lugano-Vezia.
[citation needed] By considering the post-Keynesian analysis of the productive sectors, of the composition of demand, and of the price structure as a well-developed research programme, the author focuses particularly on the supply side of savings (both life-cycle and intergenerational), linked to the behaviour of individuals, families and dynasties.
The mechanisms are examined which lead families to allocate their disposable income between consumption, savings, and passing on a given amount of their financial resources to the next generation (inclusive of all types of assets).
Structure of Inquiry and Economic Theory), Macmillan (together with Geoff Harcourt, Essays in Honour of Luigi L. Pasinetti) as well as with Routledge.
In the early 1990s he sparked off a controversy with Paul A. Samuelson and Koiki Miyazaki in the Oxford Economics Papers on the validity of the Keynes-Kaldor-Pasinetti theorem of the Cambridge distribution theory.
He spends part of the year in Cambridge (UK), where he is life-member of Darwin College, and in his chalet in the Swiss Alps.
He is a foreign fellow of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, of the National Academy of the Lincei, Rome, as well as life-member of The Queen's College, Oxford.
Advances in Economic Theory, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982 (reprinted 1983), in the U.S.: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983, pp.
Growth Distribution and Structural Change (Essays in honour of Luigi Pasinetti), London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp.
Mauro Baranzini, The Diaspora of the Families Nonella and Bassi of Sant’Antonino, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, from the 15th to the 21st Century, Bellinzona: SalvioniEdizioni, 2010, pp. 261.
Mauro Baranzini (with A. Quadrio Curzio) ‘From Adam Smith to Structural Dynamics: Luigi Pasinetti’s Life-Long Contribution’, paper presented at the Conference ‘The Economics of Structural Change: Theory, Institutions and Policies, in honour of Luigi L. Pasinetti, 2012, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
G. Marangoni), Richard Stone: An Annotated Bibliography, Lugano: Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015. pp. 174.
Mauro Baranzini (with A. Mirante) A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking, 2016, London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp.
Mauro Baranzini (with A. Mirante) 'At the intersection of "Polity" and "Economics": The Palgrave Handbook of Political Economy, edited by Ivano Cardinale and Roberto Scazzieri', review article, Economia&Lavoro, 2019, 53.2, pp. 127–50.
Mauro Baranzini (with A. Mirante) ‘Pasinetti’s Theorem: A Narrow Escape, for what was to become an Inexhaustible Research Programme’, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021, 59(C), December, pp. 470–81.
Mauro Baranzini (with R. Scazzieri) Struttura e evoluzione delle economie industriali: i fatti e le interpretazioni, Lugano: Edizioni Pantarei, 1982, pp. 198.
Mauro Baranzini (with A. Cencini, eds) Contributi di analisi economica, Bellinzona: Casagrande, 1987, pp. 298.
Mauro Baranzini, et al. (eds) Analisi Economica e Società Civile, Padua: CEDAM, 2004, pp. 757.
Mauro Baranzini, Strategie patrimoniali e famigliari nella Svizzera italiana (1400-2000), I Volume: Quadro concettuale e istituzionale (XV+313 pp.
Mauro Baranzini, L’Università della Svizzera italiana: da un sogno del 1588 alla sua realizzazione nel 1996’, lectio magistrali, Milano: Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, 2017, pp. 37–134.
La nascita di un ateneo alla fine del secondo millennio, Locarno: Dadò editore, 2021, pp.