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Università di Torino

The Turin Unit is coordinated by Giandomenica Becchio, a historian of economics specialised in gender and feminist economics, and in European and American women economists in historical perspective.

The Unit coordinates the international part of the research; it identifies and analyses key European and American female cultural entrepreneurs; studies the bankruptcy law and procedures for the link between formal and informal rights and female entrepreneurship in Italy during the 1920s and 1930s; studies the academic writings of the Italian female scholars in social sciences (1900-1950).

The Unit includes Teodoro Dario Togati, a specialist of economic thought in England in the first half of the 20th century. They will both work on the connection between the Italian “economists” and their foreign colleagues of the time. The Unit also includes Paolo Di Martino, an economic historian focused on the impact of formal and informal institutions on female entrepreneurship in Italy. Finally, the unit includes Giovanni Pavanelli, a historian of economic thought, he will work on the identification and analysis of the academic writings of the female scholars in social sciences (1900-1950) who worked in Italian university institutes and faculties as free-lance teachers, assistants or full professors

Giandomenica Becchio

Giandomenica Becchio (Ph.D. University of Florence) is Full Professor of history of economic thought, methodology of economics, and theory of entrepreneurship at the University of Torino (ESOMAS Department), Italy. Her research field includes history of political economy, Austrian economics, feminist economics, women economists’ contributions to economic thought. Supported by research fellowships, she has been visiting scholar/professor at Duke University; Yeshiva University (NYC); Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo); VSE University (Prague); Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Gender Institute at LSE; the New School for Social Research; UTS (Sydney); Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna). She is currently the National Secretary of AISPE (Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought) and member of the Institute for Political Studies’ International Advisory Board and the Estoril Political Forum’s Board of Convenors. Her major publications include several articles published in major academic journals and three books respectively on the philosophical origin of neoliberalism as developed within the history of economic thought (Routledge 2017), and on the history of feminist and gender economics (Routledge 2020; Palgrave Springer 2024).

Paolo Di Martino

Paolo Di Martino is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Turin (Italy). Before this position, he got a PhD in Economic History from the University of Pisa (Italy), has worked at the Universities of Bristol (UK), Manchester (UK), and Birmingham. He has been visiting professor at the University of Siena (Italy) and the London School of Economics (UK). He published extensively on financial history and the history of legal institutions in major journals including Business History, Economic History Review, Enterprise & Society, Financial History Review, and Business History Review.

Giovanni Pavanelli

Giovanni Pavanelli is full professor of History of economic thought at the Department ESOMAS, University of Turin, Italy. His research has primarily focused on the following areas: The Italian economic thought during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries; Business cycles and stabilization policies in the Twentieth century; The international transmission of economic ideas; The role of the economists as columnists and opinion makers. His recent publications include: “Is There an Endogenous Tendency Towards Equilibrium in Economic Systems? Business Cycles and Crises in the Modern Economic Thought”, Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics, 2021, 2, pp. 3-19; “The German Translation of De Viti de Marco’s Primi principii dell’economia finanziaria”, (with Manuela Mosca), Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2022, 2, pp. 147-166; “The Economists and the Press in Italy from the End of the Nineteenth Century until Fascism: The Case of Luigi Einaudi”, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 45, 4, 2023, Dec., pp. 577-602; “Moneta, produzione, scelte di politica economica: Il contributo di Ferdinando di Fenizio”, (with Fabrizio Bientinesi), Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 31, 2, pp. 19-41.

Teodoro Dario Togati

Teodoro Dario Togati has a Ph.D in Economics (Cambridge U.K., 1990) and is Associate Professor of Macroeconomics and Political Economy since 2003. He also teaches part of the Methodology course and History of Economics, Master's Degree in Economics, since 2018 (together with Profs. Becchio and Pavanelli). His research interests, also deepened by collaborating in various research groups, concern especially Macroeconomics topics, such as the theory of fluctuations, the Keynesian theory, the characteristics of the New Economy and recent economic crises. He is author of various articles and book chapters on the aforementioned macroeconomic topics published in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, History of Political Economy, Eastern Economic Journal, PSL Quarterly Review and volumes published by Elgar, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan and Nomos. He is also the author of two monographs: Keynes and the Neoclassical Synthesis. Einsteinian versus Newtonian macroeconomics, London, Routledge, 1998 and The New Economy and macroeconomic stability. A neo-modern perspective drawing on complexity theory and Keynesian economics, London, Routledge, 2006.

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