Francesco Saverio Nitti
Italian economist and political figure (1868–1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola[citation needed] Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and political figure. A member of the Italian Radical Party, Nitti served as Prime Minister of Italy between 1919 and 1920. An opponent of the fascist regime in Italy, he opposed any kind of dictatorship throughout his career. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia in "Theories of Overpopulation", Nitti was also a staunch critic of English economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his Principle of Population; Nitti wrote Population and the Social System (1894). He was an important meridionalist and studied the origins of Southern Italian problems that arose after Italian unification.[2][3][4]
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Prime Minister of Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monarch | Victor Emmanuel III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Giovanni Giolitti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti (1868-07-19)19 July 1868 Melfi, Kingdom of Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 20 February 1953(1953-02-20) (aged 84) Rome, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Historical Far Left (1880s–1904) PR (1904–1922) PLD (1922–1926) Independent (1926–1946; 1948–1953) UDN (1946–1948) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other political affiliations | Independent Left (1948–1953) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||