Gustavo Del Vecchio

Gustavo Del Vecchio (22 June 18836 September 1972) was an Italian economist, minister, and academic.

Early life Gustavo Del Vecchio was born in Lugo on 22 June 1883 in the Kingdom of Italy. His family were members of the Jewish community of Lugo.

On 21 June 1887, when Del Vecchio was three years old, his father, Cesare, was murdered by another employee at his company. His mother, Beatrice Cavalieri, decided to move to Bologna with her children. Gustavo attended school there from primary to high school.

Career In 1900, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law in Rome's Sapienze University. One of his first teachers was Arturo Labriola, a professor of philosophy and history. The next year, Del Vecchio came back to Bologna where he continued his law studies at the University of Bologna. One of the people he studied with was economist Tullio Martello, who is well known for his participation in the Expedition of the Thousand. In 1904, at 21 years old, Del Vecchio graduated with a thesis on monopolies. He went on to complete his studies in England and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Del Vecchio served as a volunteer during the First World War. After the war ended, he took up teaching economics at the Higher Institute of Economics and Business in Trieste from 1920 to 1926, moved on to the University of Bologna in 1926 and then at Bocconi University of Milan in 1930. and served as editors for Econometrica, Economia, Beiträge zur Ökonomischen Theorie, Economia Internazionale, and Rivista bancaria. Alberto Zanni, Gustavo Del Vecchio, Teoria e storia di un mediatore di cultura in « Revue Internationale d'Histoire de la Banque », nn. 26–27, 1983. (in Italian)