Piero Bini
Professor
Department of Economics and Business Sciences
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Piero Bini graduated with first class honors in "Economics and Commerce" at the University of Florence in 1974. After various research activities funded by the same University in the Seventies, he obtained the title of university researcher in 1980. In 1987 he won a competition for associate professor in the History of Economic Thought and the year after took up service with this tenure at the University of Macerata. Owing to a further competition, he became full professor at the same University in 2000. As a result of his transfer he received service at the University of Roma Tre in November 2002. His experience as a teacher of History of Economic Thought, Political Economy and History and Theories of Public Intervention in the Economy at the "Roma Tre" (Faculty of Political Sciences) continued until the aa 2014-2015.
Research Interest
As for his research areas, the main lines pursued in past years are these: 1) International spread of economic ideas; 2) Methodological, analytical and historical relations between economic theory and public policy; 3) Italian economic thought and style.
Publications
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Malthus is misunderstood. Study on the diffusion of economic classicism in Italy in the first half of the nineteenth century , in P. Barucci (ed.), The frontiers of political economy. Foreign economists in Italy: by merchants in Keynes, Editions Polistampa, Florence, 2003.
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Maffeo Pantaleoni in Parliament. Projects (and missions) of market economy in Italy at the beginning of the twentieth century , in MM Augello, MEL Guidi (curators), Economists in Parliament (1861-1922). A History of Liberal Italy's Political Economy. II, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2003.
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Piero Bini , The Ideological Relationships between History and Economic Theory. The Maffeo Pantaleoni case , in "Economic History Magazine", April 2002, pp. 83-93.
