Giancarlo Gandolfo (born November 17, 1937) is an Italian economist. He has been a Professor of International Economics at Sapienza University of Rome from 1974 to 2010. Gandolfo is notable for his popular graduate-level textbook on dynamic economic theory.
After graduating from the Lycée Italiano âÂÂLeonardo Da Vinciâ in Paris in 1956, he took the âÂÂCourse on French Civilizationâ at the Sorbonne (building) and the ÃÂcole des Hautes ÃÂtudes Internationales and the âÂÂEnglish Language, Literature and Institutionsâ course Queen Mary University of London in 1956-57.
A student of Vittorio Marrama, he Jurisprudence summa cum laude from the University of Rome with a law degree in 1960. Tra il 1965 e il 1968 segue corsi post-laurea in economia matematica ed econometria presso il Centro Internazionale di Matematica (CIME) diretti, sotto la supervisione di Bruno de Finetti, da Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences come Ragnar Frisch, John Hicks e Tjalling Koopmans, e da professori di rilievo come Richard M. Goodwin, Edmond Malinvaud, Michio Morishima e Henri Theil.