1 Mauro Baranzini C.V. Mauro Baranzini, Born in Bellinzona
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Mauro Baranzini c.v. Mauro Baranzini, born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on August 31st,1944, first studied at the Universities of Fribourg, i. Ue., and Zurich. In Fribourg he earned a PhD in economics with a thesis on economic growth written under the supervision of Pietro Balestra, a well-known econometrician. Soon after, in 1971, he was awarded a two- year Florey European senior scholarship of The Queen’s College, Oxford, a grant scheme set up by Lord Howard Florey, co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin, to bring promising European scholars to Oxford. He was subsequently (1973-76) awarded a senior research fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation for research to be undertaken, in turn, in Oxford, Cambridge, MIT and Harvard. In Oxford he wrote a DPhil thesis under the supervision of David Soskice, John Stanton Flemming and Sir James Alexander Mirrlees (who would be Nobel Prize winner in 1996). From 1975 to 1984 he was lecturer and director of economic studies at The Queen’s College, Oxford. After a spell at the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Milan, in 1987 he was appointed full-professor of macro- economics at the University of Verona. In Switzerland he was for numerous years a member (and then chairman) of Canton Ticino’s Research Commission on behalf of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and a co-founder in 1990 of the Centre for Banking Studies in Lugano-Vezia. From 1993 to 1997 he was a leading member (and then chairman) of the Steering Committee that laid the foundations and created the University of Lugano (the only Italian-speaking University outside Italy). There, from 1997 to 2014, he was a full professor of economic theory, and chairman of the Faculty of Economics (2005-2009). In 2009 he was awarded the Lincei Prize for economics, jointly with Andreu Mas-Colell. He has contributed widely to the Cambridge theory of income, wealth distribution and accumulation, by incorporating into the post- Keynesian model the well-known micro-economics life-cycle theory of the Nobel prizewinner Franco Modigliani. His papers have come out in Kyklos (International Review for Social Sciences), in the Oxford Economic Papers, The Economic Journal, and many other scholarly periodicals. He has published or edited volumes with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press (two volumes), Basil Blackwell (two volumes), Macmillan and Routledge. Jointly with Amalia Mirante he has recently published with Palgrave-Macmillan the Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge, and An Intellectual Biography of Luigi L. Pasinetti (Leading Scholar and System Builder of the Cambridge School of Economics). In the early 1990s he sparked off a controversy with Nobel Prizewinner Paul A. Samuelson and Koiki Miyazaki in the Oxford Economics Papers on the validity of the Keynes-Kaldor-Pasinetti theorem of the Cambridge distribution theory. For three decades (1988-2018) he used to spend part of the year in Cambridge (UK), where he was life-member of Darwin College, with his wife Evelina née Buzzi, and their four children. He has published two volumes on his ancestors going back the 14th century in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, where he has reconstructed the demographic strategies and wealth accumulation processes across six centuries (1400-2000) and nearly 20 generations. In 2005 he was elected as foreign fellow of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, and in 2011 a foreign fellow of the National Academy of the Lincei, Rome. Since 1984 he has been life-member of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Publications by Mauro Baranzini Volumes in English Language 1. Mauro Baranzini (ed.) Advances in Economic Theory, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982 (reprinted 1983), in the U.S.: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983, pp. x + 321. 1 2. Mauro Baranzini (with R. Scazzieri, eds) Foundations of Economics. Structures of Inquiry and Economic Theory, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. xii + 454. 3. Mauro Baranzini (with R. Scazzieri, eds) The Economic Theory of Structure and Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. xiii + 347 (hardback). 4. Mauro Baranzini A Theory of Wealth Distribution and Accumulation, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. xxvi + 262. 5. Mauro Baranzini (with G.C. Harcourt, eds) The Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations. Growth Distribution and Structural Change (Essays in honour of Luigi Pasinetti), London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993, pp. xiii + 424. 6. Mauro Baranzini (with A. Cencini, eds) Inflation and Unemployment. Contributions to a New Macroeconomic Approach, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. viii + 192. 7. Mauro Baranzini, The Diaspora of the Families Nonella and Bassi of Sant’Antonino, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, from the 15th to the 21st Century, Bellinzona: Salvion- iEdizioni, 2010, pp. 261. 8. Mauro Baranzini (with R. Scazzieri, eds) The Economic Theory of Structure and Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. xiii + 347 (paperback). 9. Mauro Baranzini (with C. Rotondi and R. Scazzieri, eds) Resources, Production and Structural Dynamics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. xvii+501. 10. Mauro Baranzini (with A. Mirante) A Compendium of Italian Economists at Ox- bridge: Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking, 2016, London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. xii+288. 11. Mauro Baranzini (with A. Mirante) Luigi L. Pasinetti: An Intellectual Biography, Leading Scholar and System Builder of the Cambridge School of Economics, 2018, Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, London and New York: Pal- grave-Macmillan, pp. xiii+390. Volumes in Italian Language 12. Mauro Baranzini (with R. Scazzieri) Struttura e evoluzione delle economie indu- striali: i fatti e le interpretazioni, Lugano: Edizioni Pantarei, 1982, pp. 198. 13. Mauro Baranzini (with A. Cencini, eds) Contributi di analisi economica, Bellinzona: Casagrande, 1987, pp. 298. 14. Mauro Baranzini Corso di economia politica, Milan: CUSL, pp. xvii + 559. (1st ed. 1986; 4th ed. 1988). 15. Mauro Baranzini (with G. Marangoni and S. Rossi) Macro e Microeconomia. Teoria ed applicazioni, Padua: CEDAM, 2001 (I ed.), 2003 (II ed.) pp. XVIII+889. 16. Mauro Baranzini (with G. Tondini) Accumulazione, distribuzione e risparmio, Pa- dua: CEDAM, 2003, pp. 536. 17. Mauro Baranzini, et al. (eds) Analisi Economica e Società Civile, Padua: CEDAM, 2004, pp. 757. 18. Mauro Baranzini (with G. Marangoni, A. Mirante and S. Solari) Economia Macro, Padua: CEDAM, 2006, pp. 497. 19. Mauro Baranzini, Strategie patrimoniali e famigliari nella Svizzera italiana (1400- 2000), I Volume: Quadro concettuale e istituzionale (XV+313 pp.); II Volume: Tre microstorie e supplemento iconografico (XL+566 pp.), Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2008. 20. Mauro Baranzini (A. Mirante) Economia Macro, Padua: CEDAM, 2013. 21. Mauro Baranzini L’Università della Svizzera italiana: da un sogno del 1588 alla sua realizzazione nel 1996, lectio magistrali, Milano: Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, 2017, 37-134. 2 Articles 22. Mauro Baranzini (with P. Balestra) ‘Some Optimal Aspects in a Two Class Growth Model with a Differentiated Interest Rate’, Kyklos, 1971, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 240-56 23. Mauro Baranzini ‘A Two-Class Monetary Growth Model’, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 1975, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 177-89. 24. Mauro Baranzini ‘The Pasinetti and the Anti-Pasinetti Theorems: a Reconciliation’, Ox- ford Economic Papers, 1975, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 470-3. 25. Mauro Baranzini ‘The Effects of Interest Uncertainty in a Life-Cycle Model’, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 1977, vol. 113, no. 4, pp. 407-23. 26. Mauro Baranzini ‘Long-Run Accumulation of Capital and Distribution of Wealth in a Stochastic World’, Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 1978, vol. 134, no. 3, pp. 503-11. 27. Mauro Baranzini ‘The Relevance of Different Investment Opportunities on the Con- sumer’s Optimal Plan’, in P. Caroni et al. (eds) Nur Ökonomie ist keine Ökonomie, Bern and Stuttgart: P. Haupt Verlag, 1978, pp. 9-18. 28. Mauro Baranzini (with R. Cippà) ‘Un modèle de prévision de la demande régionale de main-d’oeuvre’, DISP (Dokumente und Informationen zur Schweizerischen Orts-, Re- gional- und Landesplanung, O.R.L. Institut, ETH, Zürich), 1981, no. 61, January, pp. 26-32. 29. Mauro Baranzini ‘La definizione del benessere sociale in un’ottica spaziale’, in D. Jauch (ed.) Saggi di economia regionale, Bellinzona: Casagrande, 1981, pp. 151-79. 30. Mauro Baranzini ‘Taux d’intérêt, distribution du revenu, théorie des cycles vitaux et choix du portefeuille’, Kyklos, 1981, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 593-610. 31. Mauro Baranzini ‘Theorie der Einkommensverteilung, Profitrate, Kapitalbildung, und ‘Life-cycle’ Hypothese’, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1982, vol. 197, no. 4, pp. 329-35. 32. Mauro Baranzini ‘Un modèle de prévision de la demande régionale de main-d’oeuvre: premiers résultats empiriques’, in N. Blattner, D. Maillat and R. Ratti (ed.) Regionale Arbeitsmarktprozesse (Processus régionaux sur le marché de l’emploi), Chur: Verlag Rüegger, 1981, pp. 339-86. 33. Mauro Baranzini ‘Income Distribution in the Pasinetti Model: Comment on Woodfield and McDonald’, Australian Economic Papers, 1982, vol. 21, no. 38, pp. 200-6. 34. Mauro Baranzini Introduction to Incontri con Friedman, Myrdal, Galbraith, Kaldor, Tobin e Samuelson by A. Tuor (ed.), Lugano: Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, 1982, pp. 7-23. 35. Mauro Baranzini ‘Can the Life-Cycle Theory Help in Explaining Income Distribution and Capital Accumulation?’, in M. Baranzini (ed.) Advances in Economic Theory, Ox- ford: Basil Blackwell, 1982, pp. 243-61. 36. Mauro Baranzini (with R.Scazzieri) ‘Knowledge in Economics: A Framework’, in M. Baranzini and R. Scazzieri (eds) Foundations of Economics, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 1-87. 37. Mauro Baranzini ‘Distribution Theories: Keynesian’, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, vol. I, London: Macmillan, 1987, pp. 876-8. 38. Mauro Baranzini ‘Lo stato della ricerca in alcuni campi fondamentali dell’analisi eco- nomica nell’Europa Continentale’, in M.