Epicarmo Corbino

Epicarmo Corbino
Minister of Treasury
In office
December 1945 – September 1946
Prime MinisterAlcide De Gasperi
Minister of Industry
In office
1945–1945
Personal details
Born(1890-07-18)18 July 1890
Augusta, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
Died25 April 1984(1984-04-25) (aged 93)
Naples, Italy
PartyItalian Liberal Party
Children
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Naples

Epicarmo Corbino (18 July 1890 – 25 April 1984)[1] was an Italian academic and economist who served briefly as the minister of industry and the minister of treasury in the 1940s. He was among the most influential Italian economists.[2]

Biography

Corbino was born in Augusta, Sicily, in 1890.[3] He was the brother of Orso Mario Corbino, a politician served in the cabinets of Mussolini.[4]

Epicarmo Corbino was promoted to professorship at the University of Naples in 1923.[3] He was the minister of industry and commerce in the government of Salerno between 11 February and 17 April 1944.[3] He served as minister of the treasury in the first and second cabinets of Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi from December 1945 to September 1946 when he resigned from the office.[3][5] Corbino was member of the National Council and then, of the Constituent Assembly until 1953 for the Liberal party.[3]

Carbino left the Liberal Party before the general elections in 1953 and co-founded and headed the National Democratic Alliance in the elections.[6] He collaborated with former Prime Minister Ferruccio Parri in the establishment of the party.[7] However, the party did not manage to win a seat at the parliament.[6]

Between 1959 and 1965 Corbino was the president of the Banco di Napoli.[3] He died in Naples in 1984.[3]

Views and work

As an economist Corbino belonged to the classical school of economics in addition to Marcello Soleri, Pietro Campilli, Luigi Einaudi and Gustavo Del Vecchio.[8][9] He described himself as an advocate of the approach developed by British economist Alfred Marshall.[5] Therefore, he was an ardent supporter of free enterprise.[5] During the Fascist period Corbino and other liberal economists, including Attilio Cabiati, Edoardo Giretti and Luigi Einaudi did not become closer to the regime.[2]

He was author of many books. Later he also published studies of environmental problems, being one of the pioneers in this field in Italy.[10]

References

  1. ^ Prof. Epicarmo Corbino
  2. ^ a b Maurizio Vaudagna (1978). "Structural Change in Fascist Italy". The Journal of Economic History. 38 (1): 184. doi:10.1017/S0022050700088239. S2CID 154932244.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Corbino, Epicarmo" (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  4. ^ "About Us". Fondazione Cariello Corbino. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Alberto Mingardi (2020). "The Road Not Taken of "Nuovo liberalismo"". In John B. Taylor (ed.). From the Past to the Future: Ideas and Actions for a Free Society. Hoover Press. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b MKG (August 1953). "The Italian General Election and Its Consequences". The World Today. 9 (8): 335. JSTOR 40392653.
  7. ^ Clifford A. L. Rich (September 1953). "Political Trends in Italy". The Western Political Quarterly. 6 (3): 478. doi:10.2307/442365. JSTOR 442365.
  8. ^ Rita Mascolo (2020). "Tennessee valley in Southern Italy: How the ENSI project was the first and only World Bank loan for nuclear power". Business History. 64 (8): 4. doi:10.1080/00076791.2020.1819984. S2CID 225016028.
  9. ^ Douglass Charles Day (1982). The Shaping of Postwar Italian Politics: Italy 1945-1948 (PhD thesis). University of Chicago. p. 104. ISBN 979-8-205-08303-4. ProQuest 303267078.
  10. ^ Duccio Cavalieri (2010). "Epicarmo Corbino, XXth century liberal neoclassical economist". Il Pensiero Economico Italiano (in Italian). 2 (20).
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