Francesco Saverio Nitti

Francesco Saverio Nitti
Francesco Saverio Nitti
	Nitti in 1920
Prime Minister of Italy
	In office; 23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by	Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Succeeded by	Giovanni Giolitti
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Minister of the Interior
	In office; 23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Succeeded by	Giovanni Giolitti
Minister of the Treasury
	In office; 30 October 1917 – 18 January 1919
Prime Minister	Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Preceded by	Paolo Carcano
Succeeded by	Bonaldo Stringher
Minister of Agricolture, Industry and Commerce
	In office; 29 March 1911 – 21 March 1914
Prime Minister	Giovanni Giolitti
Preceded by	Giovanni Raineri
Succeeded by	Giannetto Cavasola
Constituency
Parliamentary offices
Member of the Senate of the Republic
	In office; 8 May 1948 – 20 February 1953; (Ex officio)
Member of the Constituent Assembly
	In office; 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
Constituency	Italy at-large
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 30 November 1904 – 25 January 1924
Constituency	Muro Lucano
Personal details
Born	Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti; 19 July 1868; Melfi, Kingdom of Italy
Died	20 February 1953 (aged 84); Rome, Italy
Party	Historical Far Left (1880s–1904); PR (1904–1922); PLD (1922–1926); Independent (1926–1946; 1948–1953); UDN (1946–1948)
Alma mater	University of Naples Federico II
Profession	University professor

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Francesco Saverio Nitti (Italian: [franˈtʃesko saˈvɛːrjo ˈnitti]; 19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and statesman. A member of the Italian Radical Party, Nitti served as Prime Minister of Italy between 1919 and 1920. An opponent of the fascist regime in Italy, he opposed any kind of dictatorship throughout his career. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia in "Theories of Overpopulation", Nitti was also a staunch critic of English economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his Principle of Population; Nitti wrote Population and the Social System (1894). He was an important meridionalist and studied the origins of Southern Italian problems that arose after Italian unification.