ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to analyse the contributions made by two Italian women economists, now almost completely forgotten, but who were at the forefront of political and economic debate in the 1960s and 1970s, Vera Cao Pinna and Almerina Ipsevich. Both women gave an impulse to applied economic research as support to political economics during the post-war economic reconstruction in Italy, although their ideologies and theories were very different.
