Paolo Malanima
Paolo Malanima is an Italian economic historian, Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, and former director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies in Naples. Malanima's main research interests are long-term developments in economic history, particularly the performance of the Italian economy since Classical antiquity, history of energy and global history.
Life
Paolo Malanima received his education in Humanities at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the University of Pisa from 1969 to 1973. He was Professor of Economic History and Economics at the University of Pisa from 1977 until 1994, and at the Magna Græcia University in Catanzaro, Calabria, from 1994 until 2021.In 2002–2013, Malanima was director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies in Naples, of the Italian National Council of Research.
Malanima has been president of the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research at the University of Groningen since 2000, member of the executive committee of the programme of Ramses 2 coordinated by the Maison de la Méditerranée in Aix-en-Provence, and member of the scientific committee and council of the "Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini".
As of 2010, Malanima is on the editorial board of the journals Società e Storia and Rivista di Storia Economica, corresponding editor of the International Review of Social History, and a member of the council of Investigaciones de Historia Economica. In the years 2003 to 2009, he was a member of the board of the Italian Society of Historical Demography. In 2005-2014, he was the editor of the Rapporto sulle economie del Mediterraneo, an annual periodical published by Il Mulino.
In 2023, Paolo Malanima was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus in Economic History by the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, a title conferred by the Ministry of University and Research with the Decree 372 07/02/2024.