In memory of Giorgio Gilibert

We wish to remember Giorgio Gilibert, professor of economics at the university of Trieste, whose untimely death happened in the month of April. In his long academic career he gave many important contributions relevant to both economic theory and its history. His main field of interest was Classical theory, and more specifically the conception of a “circular” economic system, in contrast to the “one way avenue” of marginal theory. Quesnay’s Tableau économique and Sraffa’s Production of commodities by means of commodities were of course two texts to which he devoted important works, but also von Neumann’s model, and the lesser known writings of an ample stream of German and Russian economists  (to this group in a sense belongs Leontief). On these topics his works were characterized by analytical subtlety and refined scholarship. He always conjugated very keen analyis with awareness of the historical relevance of the problems he was tackling. His scholarly interests were very wide and went well beyond the narrow economic field. Giorgio Gilibert leaves a great void and great sorrow in all his friends and colleagues.

Giancarlo de Vivo