Pasquale Jannaccone
Pasquale Jannaccone was born in Naples, Italy, on May 18, 1872.
He graduated in 1893 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin, discussing a thesis in political economy with Salvatore Cognetti De Martiis.
Cognetti De Martiis himself, the creator and founder in December 1893 of the Laboratory of Political Economy, was directing him toward the academic carreer.
Having obtained his professorship in 1898, in 1900 he won the competition for the academic tenure in political economy at the Univertsity of Cagliari. In this university he also held the teaching of finance science. In 1901, after the death of Cognetti De Martiis, he succeeded him in directing the fourth and fifth series of the Biblioteca dell'economista. From 1908 he was also part of the editorship of La Riforma Sociale.
Between 1910 and 1912, he was general secretary of the International Institute of Agriculture, the world's most important international body of economic statistics, on the basis of which, after World War II, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would take shape.
As for his university career, after spending three years in Cagliari, Jannaccone went on to Siena and Padua. From 1916 he returned in Turin where he held the teaching of statistics at the Faculty of Law.
In July 1932 he was called by the University of Turin to hold the teaching of political economy, succeeding Achille Loria.
In the last years of his life he was President of the Turin Academy of Sciences (1949-55), and from 1954 until his death he was Vice-president of the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. On December 1, 1950, at the behest of Luigi Einaudi, who in the meantime had become President of the Italian Republic, he was appointed senator for high scientific merit. Jannaccone passed away in Turin on December 22, 1959.
