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Fernando Vianello

Fernando Vianello
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Born (1939-08-17)August 17, 1939
Bologna
Italy
Died August 10, 2009(2009-08-10) (aged 69)
Rome, Italy
Nationality Italy
Field Political economy
School or
tradition
Neo-Ricardian school
Alma mater University of Bologna
Jesus College, Cambridge
Influences Adam Smith
David Ricardo
John Maynard Keynes
Piero Sraffa
Paolo Sylos Labini
Pierangelo Garegnani
Influenced Giovanni Bonifati
Annamaria Simonazzi
Paolo Trabucchi
Antonella Palumbo

Fernando Vianello (August 17, 1939 – August 10, 2009) was an Italian economist and academic.

Together with Michele Salvati, Sebastiano Brusco, Andrea Ginzburg and Salvatore Biasco, he founded the Faculty of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

In 1963 he graduated in Law from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the Italian economic development, under the supervision of Paolo Sylos Labini.

In the same year he attended the sixth training course on "Economic Development" organized in Rome by SVIMEZ (Italian Association of Southern Italy's Industries Development), managed by Claudio Napoleoni.

From 1964 to 1966 he was an assistant professor in "Principles of Political Economy" course held by Sylos Labini at the Faculty of Statistics of the "Sapienza" University of Rome.

Since 1966 he began attending economic courses taught by Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Richard Kahn and James Meade in the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). In 1968 he obtained a degree in Economics (Bachelor of Arts Degree) at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge.

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

Faculty of Economic and Banking Sciences

Faculty of Economics

Faculty of Economics

Prof. Vianello developed his expertise on several research fields. He worked with the theories of value and distribution of income and paid special attention to the link between capital accumulation and the profit rate. He analyzed classical political economy theories from Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx.


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