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Author-Name: Daniela Parisi 
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza
Title: A turning point in the history of Econometrics in Italy around 1950. Luigi Pasinetti and Siro Lombardini, his mentor, at the Catholic University of Milan
Abstract: This paper deals with Luigi L. Pasinetti’s contributions, in the complex path of the definition of the
specific area and methodologies of the new discipline of Econometrics. It is divided into three sections,
an Introduction, and a Conclusion. The Introduction opens with some notes on the need to define
and measure each dimension of the manifold notion of well-being, a need felt by the economists in
the first decades of the twentieth century which still is a controversial issue. Considering the convinced
supporters of the methodological stance on tools devised by economics + statistics, in a previous
paper the author dealt with Corrado Gini (1884-1965), the first Italian member of the Econometric
Society, and also with some other Italian statisticians and economists who were among the 33
Italian members – out of 317 – of the Econometric Society in 1934, due to the fact that they contributed
to formulating new instruments and methodologies heading towards the new discipline of Econometrics
(sect. 2). This paper is mainly devoted to the following chapter in the story, namely the one
concerning tools devised by Economics + Statistics + Mathematics in relation to the new Faculty of
Economics founded at the Università Cattolica in Milan (Italy) in 1948. The third section also touches
upon the economists who were in charge of the chair of Economics, Statistics, and Mathematics, i.e.,
Marcello Boldrini (1890-1969), Albino Uggè (1899-1971), and Siro Lombardini (b. 1924), who was the
first mentor of Luigi Pasinetti. Finally, Luigi Pasinetti, the Italo-Cantabrigian economist and econometrician
who in 1965 became the first Professor of Econometrics in Italy, teaching from the chair of
the Faculty of Economics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan.
Classification-JEL: A12, B00, B23, B31
Keywords: Econometrics, History of; C. Gini; M. Boldrini; A. Uggè; S. Lombardini; L. L. Pasinetti
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 47-68
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Year: 2013
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201306302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:21:y:2013:2:3:p:47-68