Marcello De Cecco (

Lanciano Lanciano (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Langiàne ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 36,304 inhabitants as of 2011. The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Eucharistic ...

17 September 1939 –

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3 March 2016) was an Italian economist. Born in

, De Cecco graduated in Law at the Parma University and later in Economics at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He was professor in several universities, including the

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

and the LUISS University of Rome. De Cecco's studies mainly focused on the history of monetary and financial policies and on the theories of the genesis and the functioning of markets. Close to

Keynesian economics Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output an ...

theories, he was increasingly concerned with the

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issues, of which he strongly opposed the European austerity politics. De Cecco collaborated with several financial institutions, including the

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and

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. In 2007 he was part of the Organizing Committee of the

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* 1939 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Italian economists University of Parma alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Italian essayists Male essayists 20th-century essayists Academic staff of the University of Pisa Academic staff of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli Keynesians Italian male non-fiction writers 21st-century Italian economists {{italy-economist-stub