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[log in to unmask] (Alain Alcouffe)
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Fri Feb 23 08:15:54 2007
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Well, Mario de Bernardi who edited Dupuit (and also Botero) was perhaps
an aviator but was not a fascist if we are to believe Daniela Parisi..
cf.
*Quaderni dell'Istituto*
Daniela Parisi, Sailing the Atlantic to study Economics. Rockefeller
philanthropy and pioneering of specialization in the USA, ottobre 2004.
downloadable at
http://www3.unicatt.it/unicattolica/Istituti/Teoriaeconomica/allegati/39.pdf

The paper gives biographical details on De Bernardi pp 30-31
Another Rockefeller Foundation fund granted Mario De Bernardi (b.1906) a
fruitful experience, too: he had graduated in Turin in 1928, and his stays in
England and France to study Political Science were financed in 1931-1932. 
He is deservingly mentioned in this paper as those studies allowed him to 
refine his competence in the History of Economic Thought, and to publish
De l'utilite et de sa mesure by Jules Dupuit, together with his
translation of New Frontiers by Henry A. Wallace and the Harvard Economic 
Group volume on the New Deal edited by Joseph A. Schumpeter and Edwin H.
Chamberlin.

His personal experience is registered in the Rockefeller Foundation Archives 
which also report that [he] has encountered serious political difficulties 
in attempting to enter the academic career. He has so far been refused the 
membership card in the Fascist Party required of all Candidates for University 
positions. This seems to be due to an open letter he signed in 1929 with many
other Turin students, addressed to Benedetto Croce, approving the
latter's stand on the problem of the relations between Church and State
in Italy [...]

Material preserved at the Rockefeller Archive Center proves that during
1934 various documents were collected to gather impressions from Italy, on its 
political situation and its academic panorama. Mario De Bernardi was awarded a grant [..] Parisi adds the following bibliography which did not include Dupuit's 
book:
De Bernardi, M.,1929, Il concetto di ragion di stato in Giovanni Botero
e la filosofia della politica, in "Atti della Reale accademia di Scienze di Torino", vol. 65
-------------------, 1930, Appunti bibliografici attorno a Giovanni
Botero, in " Atti della Reale accademia di Scienze di Torino", vol. 65
-------------------, 1931, Giovanni Botero economista, Istituto
Giuridico dell'Universit=E0, Torino
-------------------, 1934, Monetaristi e mercanitilisti francesio dal
16=B0 al 18=B0 secolo, in "La Riforma Sociale", Jan.-Feb.
-------------------,1949, Botero, Giovanni, in "Encyclopaedia of the
Social Science" by Seligman and Johnson, vol. I, Macmillan, New York 1949

PS - I found Parisi's paper coming from the Library of Congress catalog
and Sudoc Abes which related De Bernardi to Botero.

Alain Alcouffe



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