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Author-Name: Stefano Adamo
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Banja Luka, Dipartimento di Studi italiani. ICER, Torino
Title: Le lezioni in edicola. La collaborazione di Pasquale Jannaccone con «La Nuova Stampa» 
(The news-stand lectures: Pasquale Jannaccone's columsn for «La Nuova Stampa» at the time of Italy's reconstruction (1947-1953)) 
Abstract: This essay examines the contributions of Italian economist Pasquale Jannaccone to the Turin daily
newspaper «La Nuova Stampa» during the Italian post-wwii reconstruction. It is argued that the
major element of interest in Jannaccone’s work as opinion maker lies in the educational style of most
of his articles, which suggests a distinctive awareness that the level of sophistication reached by the
economics profession is likely to undermine public communication. In addition to a brief survey of
Jannaccone’s scientific biography, two other topics are singled out and examined: his intellectual
support to the monetary policy of Luigi Einaudi during the latter’s political engagement, and his
defense of the principles of economic and political liberalism in an intellectual context particularly
hostile to those ideas.
Classification-JEL: A11, A14
Keywords: economists as opinion makers; public opinion; monetary policy; liberalism; public
sphere; Italy - post-war reconstruction (economisti come opinion makers; opinione pubblica; politica monetaria; liberalismo;
sfera pubblica; Italia - ricostruzione postbellica) 
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 109-128
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Year: 2012
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201206301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:20:y:2012:1:7:p:109-128