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11 Facts About Mauro Baranzini

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Mauro Baranzini was a student of Bruno Caizzi at the Scuola Superiore di Commercio of Bellinzona; of Pietro Balestra and Bernard Schmitt at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland; of David Soskice, John S Flemming and Sir James A Mirrlees at Oxford.

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Mauro Baranzini has written extensively with Roberto Scazzieri, of the Universities of Bologna and Cambridge and of the Lincei Academy.

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Mauro Baranzini's contributions are mainly in the field of income and wealth distribution, both at the macro- and micro-level.

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Mauro Baranzini was born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, 31 August 1944, son of Leo Johann Baranzini-Franki, a railways worker, and of Germana Nonella-Bassi of Sant'Antonino.

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Mauro Baranzini served as acting president of that university, and, since 1997, he has been a full professor of economic theory, deputy chairman, and chairman of the Faculty of Economics.

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Mauro Baranzini has contributed to the Cambridge theory of income, wealth distribution and accumulation, by incorporating into the post-Keynesian theory the well-known micro-economics life-cycle theory of Franco Modigliani the hypothesis of a different rate of return on accumulated savings, and the existence of a class of pure rentiers;.

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Mauro Baranzini's work was to lay the micro-foundations of the post-Keynesian theory of income distribution and wealth accumulation.

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Mauro Baranzini's papers have been published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Journal, Kyklos, Australian Economic Papers, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik, and other learned periodicals.

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Mauro Baranzini spends part of the year in Cambridge, where he is life-member of Darwin College, and in his chalet in the Swiss Alps.

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Mauro Baranzini has recently published two volumes on his ancestors going back the 14th century in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, where he has reconstructed the demographic strategies and wealth accumulation processes across six centuries and nearly 20 generations.

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Mauro Baranzini is a foreign fellow of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, of the National Academy of the Lincei, Rome, as well as life-member of The Queen's College, Oxford.