ABSTRACT
Sergio Paronetto, economist and industrial manager, was long eclipsed, hidden within a historiographical umbral shadow. Paronetto was the author of a good number of essays, articles and reviews, often unsigned, that demonstrated that he kept regularly up to date with developments in economic theory. In practice, Paronetto introduced management science and culture to Italy. In the 1940s he brought together, at his Roman home, a group of men who would play leading roles after the war, all followers of Alcide De Gasperi, who attached great importance to these private lessons in economics. Paronetto headed the technical secretariat of Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI), director-general, Donato Menichella, under the chairmanship first of Alberto Beneduce and then of Francesco Giordani. In the second half of the 1930s, Paronetto deepened his interest and developed his thought along the lines and the results of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's economic policy.
