Women and Economic Thought in Italy (1750-1950)

20th November 2023
Online Workshop

9.15 Introduction – Manuela Mosca and Muriel Dalpont Legrand
9.30 Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel (1752-1799) – Simona Pisanelli
10.00 Political economy in the salon of Emilia Toscanelli Peruzzi (1827-1900) – Monika Poettinger
10.30 What work for women? The debate on emancipacion and work in post-unification Ita-ly – Claudia Sunna and Rossella Bufano

11.00 COFFEE BREAK

11.30 Maria Ponti Pasolini (1856-1938) entrepreneurial heiress between philanthropy and economic thought – Elena Laurenzi, Stefania Licini and Manuela Mosca
12.00 Home economics or domestic economy? Maria Diez Gasca (1881-1966), the US in-fluence and the Italian way during the years of fascism – Ivan Paris
12.30 Jenny Griziotti Kretschmann (1884-1980) the first female professor in economics in Italy – Daniela Parisi

13.00 LUNCH

14.00 Iris Cutting Origo (1902-1988) and the narrative of an alternative economy – Francesca Dal Degan
14.30 Economic dualism: the contribution of women economists – Carmen Vita
15.00 Between philosophy, history, economics and statistics. The figure of Paola Maria Arcari (1907-1967) – Manfredi Alberti

15.30 COFFEE BREAK

16.00 Social justice and 'human development'. The fundamentals of a socio-economic reform system (1946-48) – Simone Misiani
16.30 The Italian economy through the lens of women economists: analysis of articles publi-shed in Italian economic journals from the 1930s to the 1950s – Marcella Corsi and Giulia Zacchia
17.00 The younger siblings of GDP: the contribution of women in National Accounts – Maria Letizia D’Autilia
17.30 End of the Workshop