| Profile | Major Works | Resources |
Ugo Rabbeno, 1863-1897.
19th C. Italian economist, evolutionary economist, .
Originating from Reggio-in-Emilia, Ugo Rabbeno studied at the University of Bologna, obtaining his laurea in 1883, with a thesis on the evolution of labor, partly inspired by the new evolutionary ideas from Darwin and Spencer.
Rabbeno subsequently spent a year in Pavia, where he came under the influence of Luigi Cossa. Rabbeno abandoned his Darwinian roots and launched a new research program, more reformist in goal, investigating the achievements and potential of cooperative movements. He took several extensive research trips abroad, to France, Belgium and elsewhere, and produced studies on the cooperative movement in England (1885) Italy (1886).
Rabbeno obtained an appointment at the polytechnical school of Bari, but remained there only a year, before moving on as a assistant professor in economics at Perugia. He returned to Bologna three years later, obtaining the economics chair at the polytechnical institute of that city. It was in Bologna that Rabbeno moved from theory to practice, and became more deeply involved as an organizer and promoter of the cooperatives. Rabbeno produced a prize study on the cooperative movement (1889), and a seminal exposition of the work of Achille Loria, which he extolled with the fervor of a convert..
Ugo Rabbeno's 1893 treatise on American protectionism was controversial. Although subscribing to Friedrich List's infant industry argument, Rabbeno found latter-day "American System" protectionism, as advocated by Henry Carey, and later writers such as S.N. Patten, to be serving purely an isolationist agenda, and condemned it as useless, if not detrimental, to development of the American economy..
Rabbeno died at the relatively young age of 33, shortly after becoming a professor at the University of Modena. His study on Australia was published posthumously.
|
Major Works of Ugo Rabbeno
|
Top|
HET
|
|
Resources on Ugo Rabbeno
|
All rights reserved, Gonçalo L. Fonseca