It is our great pleasure to announce that on the website of Cipei - Centro
interuniversitario di documentazione sul pensiero economico italiano at the
University of Pisa (Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo), the link to the Database
of Italian Academic Economists of the Nineteenth Century
<https://cipei.unipi.it/en/resources/economists-database/> is active as of
now. The database – which results from forty years of excavation work
carried out by Massimo Augello (University of Pisa), with the collaboration
of Francesco Celiano, Giovanna De Santi and Daniela Giaconi – contains
complete data on the scientific biography and primary and secondary
literature of seventy one economists, including well-known figures such as
Gerolamo Boccardo, Luigi Cossa, Francesco Ferrara, Achille Loria, Angelo
Messedaglia, Maffeo Pantaleoni, Antonio Scialoja and Giuseppe Toniolo. A
simple query mask allows detailed reports for a very wide range of criteria
and keywords.

The database will be constantly updated with new data. A new information
system containing similar data on Italian economists of the twentieth
century is also at an advanced stage of implementation.

Consultation is free in accordance with the principles of open and shared
science. We are confident that it can be an extremely useful tool for all
scholars of the history of economic and social ideas and for undergraduate,
graduate and PhD students who wish to deepen their study of
nineteenth-century Italian economic thought, its transnational circulation,
and the role of economists in society and in the academic and political
institutions of the Italian state.

To access the database, each scholar must fill out a simple registration
form, in response to which she/he will quickly (1-2-working days) obtain a
password to access the consultation.

The credit for bringing this endeavor to a conclusion is first and foremost
due to Chiara Bechelli and Elisa Cacelli of Cipei-SBA (initially also
assisted by Raffaella Sprugnoli), who oversaw the revision of the nearly
30,000 cards in the database and the conception of the information system,
and also to Massimo Augello, Marco Guidi, Daniela Giaconi and Alice
Martini, who provided scientific supervision, and finally to Francesco
Celiano, Antonio Laguardia and Marco Interdonato, who, together with Dario
Besseghini of the University of Pisa, took care of the IT part. Finally,
thanks are due to the many colleagues who tested the database before it was
published online.

The Cipei team


-- 
Marco E.L. Guidi

Dipartimento di Economia e Management
Università di Pisa
Via Cosimo Ridolfi 10
56125 Pisa, Italy