11 Facts About Mario Einaudi

Mario Einaudi was an Italian scholar of political theory and European comparative politics.

Mario Einaudi was born in 1904 in Italy in one of the most influential intellectual family in Italy.

Mario Einaudi then spent two years at the London School of Economics, working with William Beveridge, Harold Laski, Graham Wallas and AD Lindsay.

From 1927 to 1929, Mario Einaudi attended Harvard University as a Rockefeller fellow, conducting research on the United States Supreme Court.

In 1938, Mario Einaudi was appointed as Assistant Professor at Fordham University where he was active in the struggle against fascism during World War II.

Mario Einaudi worked for the Office of War Information and the Council on Foreign Relations and began to teach future Allied Military Government personnel about European government once a week at Cornell University.

Mario Einaudi joined the Government Department of Cornell University in 1945 and immediately set about changing the course of comparative political theory.

Three central tenets to Mario Einaudi's work were: that the study of politics must be embedded in history; that Europe and the United States have much to teach each other about the practice of democratic politics; and that the classics of political theory must inform the study of contemporary democratic states.

In 1960, Mario Einaudi was asked to be the founding director of the Center for International Studies to initiate Cornell University's newfound commitment to engage in interdisciplinary research in international affairs.

Mario Einaudi envisioned international studies going beyond courses in area studies and foreign languages to include academic efforts to deal with economic, social, and development problems around the world.

Hence, the Fondazione Luigi Mario Einaudi was formed to transplant the American idea of the independent research institute to Italy.