Mario Pirani Coen (3 August 1925 – 18 April 2015) was an Italian journalist, economist, and writer.

Biography

Born in Rome, he became a member of the Association of Journalists of

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in January 1958. Politically closed to the

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, he left it after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. He later became an officer of '' Eni'', the Italian state-owned oil company. After the experiences with ''

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'', '' Il Giorno'' and ''Il Globo'', he participated, together with

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, to the foundation of ''

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'', a newspaper that became one of the first in Italy. He became the Deputy Director, with

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and Giampaolo Pansa. He was also editor of

L'Europeo ''L'Europeo'' was a prominent Italian weekly news magazine launched on 4 November 1945, by the founder-editors Gianni Mazzocchi and Arrigo Benedetti.

from 1979 to 1980, succeeding

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. In 1995 he won the Premiolino. He died in Rome on 18 April 2015, aged 89.

Works

* ''Il fascino del nazismo. Il caso Jenninger: una polemica sulla storia'', (The charm of Nazism. The case Jenninger: a controversy about the history), Il Mulino, 1989, pp. 157, . * ''Il futuro dell'economia visto dai maggiori economisti italiani'', (The future of the economy seen by leading Italian economists), Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1993, pp. 229, . * ''È scoppiata la terza guerra mondiale? Le democrazie tra pacifismo e difesa'', (You broke the third world war? Democracies between pacifism and defense, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2004, pp. 302, . * ''Poteva andare peggio. Mezzo secolo di ragionevoli illusioni'', (It could be worse. Half a century of reasonable illusions), Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2010, pp. 430, .

References

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