Luigi Amoroso

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Luigi Amoroso
Born	(1886-03-26)March 26, 1886 Naples
Died	October 28, 1965(1965-10-28) (aged 79) Rome
Nationality	Italy
Field	Microeconomics
School/tradition	Neoclassical economics
Influences	Vilfredo Pareto
Influenced	Joan Robinson
Contributions	Amoroso–Robinson relation

Luigi Amoroso (March 26, 1886 – October 28, 1965) was an Italian neoclassical economist influenced by Vilfredo Pareto. He provided support for and influenced the economic policy during the fascist regime. The microeconomical concept of the Amoroso–Robinson relation is named after him (and Joan Robinson): according to paper (Tusset 2000) he is one of the first economists to study the dynamical equilibrium theory, using an analogy between economic systems and classical mechanics and thus applying to theories of economical behaviour mathematical tools as the calculus of variation. In his young years he contributed to the theory of functions of several complex variables, giving for the first time a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for holomorphic functions of several variables in the paper (Amoroso 1912).^[1] Also, in 1927 he provided to his former Normale schoolfellow Mauro Picone the funding for the creation of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, now called Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" by means of a local bank.^[2]

Selected works

Mathematics

Amoroso, Luigi (1912), "Sopra un problema al contorno", Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (in Italian) 33 (1): 75–85, doi:10.1007/BF03015289, JFM 43.0453.03 . "On a boundary value problem" (English translation of title) is the first paper where a set of (fairly complicate) necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for holomorphic functions of several variables is given.

Notes

↑ See also the paper (Fichera 1999, pp. 306–309) for a survey of this problem in his historical context
↑ See Fichera (1999, p. 307) and Benzi (2005, p. 3) in its preprint version

Bibliography

Benzi, Michele (2005), "Gianfranco Cimmino's Contributions to Numerical Mathematics", in Pini, Bruno, Atti del Seminario di Analisi Matematica, Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita` di Bologna. Volume Speciale: Ciclo di Conferenze in Memoria di Gianfranco Cimmino, Marzo-Aprile 2004, Bologna: Tecnoprint, pp. 87–109 . See here for a preprint version of the original paper downloadable from the author's academic home page.
Fichera, Gaetano (1999), "L'analisi matematica in Italia fra le due guerre (Mathematical analysis in Italy between the two wars)", Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rendiconti Lincei, Matematica e Applicazioni, 9 10 (4): 279–312 (in Italian).
Keppler, Jan Horst (1994), "Luigi Amoroso (1886–1965): Mathematical Economist, Italian Corporatist", History of Political Economy 26 (4): 589–611, doi:10.1215/00182702-26-4-589 .

References

Tusset, Gianfranco (2000), Habits and expectations in Luigi Amoroso's dynamic equilibrium, Discussion Papers, 14 - 2000, Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno", University of Padua, retrieved 2009-05-09

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 9838425 LCCN: no2010133755 ISNI: 0000 0000 8076 2929 GND: 119533642 BNF: cb108125478 ICCU: IT\ICCU\RAVV\038944

Persondata
Name	Amoroso, Luigi
Alternative names
Short description	Italian neoclassical economist
Date of birth	March 26, 1886
Place of birth	Naples
Date of death	October 28, 1965
Place of death	Rome

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