As a follow-up to this morning's sad message, here is a translation of the announcement that will appear on the website of the University of Pisa.
I also take the opportunity to thank all those who sent their condolences today.
Nicola Giocoli

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After a long illness, Professor Riccardo Faucci, former professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Pisa, passed away on Oct. 17 at the age of 78.
Born in 1945 in Livorno, a student at the legal college of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Faucci had been a CNR fellow at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Economici Adriano Olivetti in Ancona and at the Einaudi Foundation in Turin. His academic career had begun in 1971, with appointments at the universities of Ancona and Macerata. At the latter university he had obtained the chair of History of Economic Doctrines in 1980. Since 1983 he had moved to the Faculty (now Department) of Law at the University of Pisa. A recipient of the Order of the Cherubin in 1993, he had been retired since 2015.

His research on the history of economic ideas and, in particular, on the history of Italian economic thought are cornerstones of the discipline in Italy and internationally. In addition to numerous articles on Smith, Schumpeter, Marx, the Turin School, economic planning and public finance, his pioneering studies on state accounting stand out (Finanza, amministrazione e pensiero economico. Il caso della contabilità di stato da Cavour al fascismo, Fondazione Einaudi, Torino, 1975), as welll as the masterful biographies of Luigi Einaudi (Luigi Einaudi, Utet, Torino, 1986) and Francesco Ferrara (L'economista scomodo. Vita ed opere di Francesco Ferrara, Sellerio, Palermo, 1995) and, above all, L'economia politica in Italia. Dal Cinquecento ai nostri giorni (Utet, Torino, 2000), to date the only complete reconstruction of the evolution of economic ideas in our country, also translated into English (A History of Italian Economic Thought, Routledge, London, 2013). His last book, the collection La Scienza dell'Amor Patrio. Cultura e Politica degli Economisti Italiani dal Risorgimento alla Ricostruzione (Olschki Editore, Firenze), came out in 2018.

One of the main promoters of the discipline in Italy and abroad, Faucci was among the founders of the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE), which he chaired from 1999 to 2001, and of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), of whose Executive Committee he was a member from 1996 to 1998. His activity in the dissemination of ideas was also intense. Evidence of this, among the many publishing initiatives, is the creation in 1983 of the scientific journal Quaderni di Storia dell'Economia Politica, later transformed (1993) into the international journal History of Economic Ideas, which he edited until 2020.

He is survived by his wife, Marisa Marinelli, herself a retired professor of economic policy at the University of Pisa, their two daughters Daria and Marta, and a grandson, Niccolò.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, 11 a.m. in Pisa, at the University Church of San Frediano.