With the passing after a long illness of Luigi Spaventa Italy does not lose only a very fine economist but a man of great rectitude and strong civil commitment.
Full professor of economic policy at the La Sapienza University of Rome, Spaventa was a parliamentarian of the independent Left for various legislatures without ever renouncing his independence of judgment and then Minister of the Budget with the Amato and Ciampi governments.
In 94 he challenged Silvio Berlusconi to the elections for the Chamber.
Spaventa was later president of Consob. For many years he was also an economic commentator for the newspaper La Repubblica.
He was appreciated by all for the rigor of his analyzes and for his sharp but highly intellectually honest judgments. It is a loss for the whole country.
