Eva_Colorni

Eva Colorni

Eva Colorni

Italian economist (1941–1985)

Eva Colorni (1941–1985) was an Italian economist.

Biography

Eva Colorni was born in Italy in 1941 to anti-fascist activists Eugenio Colorni and Ursula Hirschmann. Her father was a socialist philosopher, while her mother was a German-born economist that had fled Nazi Germany.[1] Her father was killed by fascists during World War II.[2] Her mother remarried Altiero Spinelli, who became Colorni's stepfather.[3]

Colorni attended the University of Pavia and then began teaching. She moved to India where she taught at the Delhi School of Economics. She then moved to England.[1] Colorni began dating Amartya Sen,[4] with whom she moved to North London in 1973.[1] They married in 1978 and had two children together.[4] After being diagnosed with cancer, she continued to teach for nearly two additional terms.[1] She died of stomach cancer in 1985.[2]

Colorni helped guide Sen's work, directing his attention to "practical issues of importance".[5] She is credited, also, as an influence on her uncle, Albert O. Hirschman.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Barker, Paul (1998). Living as Equals. Oxford University Press. pp. 145–146. ISBN 978-0-19-829518-1.
  2. [2]
    Nasar, Sylvia (2011-05-10). Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. Simon and Schuster. p. 454. ISBN 978-0-684-87298-8.
  3. [3]
    Massarenti, Armando (2012-08-26). "Hirschman, Sen e lo spirito di Ventotene" [Hirschman, Sen and the spirit of Ventotene]. Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  4. [4]
    Steele, Jonathan (2001-03-31). "Food for thought". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  5. [5]
    "A Nobel Cause". The Times of India. 2001-12-08. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
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