Nationality Italian, American | Name Carmine Gorga | |
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School or tradition Aristotelian/Aquinian economics Alma mater University of Naples Federico II Books Quality Assurance of Seafood, The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture Influenced by John Maynard Keynes, Franco Modigliani, Joseph Kaipayil | ||
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Carmine Gorga (Italian: [ˈkar’meeŋɛ gorga]; December 8, 1935) is an Italian political scientist naturalized American working as President of The Somist Institute.
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Life and career
Born in Roccadaspide (Salerno), Gorga left Italy to continue his study of The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis, the subject of his PhD dissertation at the University of Naples in 1959. This work earned him a Council of Europe Scholarship that led him to the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1961 and the following year, thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, to the Johns Hopkins’ SAIS in Washington, DC, where he received an MA in International Relations. Among other positions, he is currently the president of The Somist Institute. He married Joan R. Mohr in 1969; they have one son, Jonathan. He is a Third Order Carmelite.
Activities
In 1963-1965, Gorga was an Economist and Marketing Analyst for A.C. Nielsen in Milan, Italy. He later did academic research at Brandeis University. After moving to United States, Carmine was City Planner for Community Planning Services in Boston, Massachusetts and Director of Planning and Economic Development for Action Inc. in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Gorga also worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce Gloucester Laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service and is the executive director of Gloucester Community Development Corporation. Gorga is also the current president of The Somist Institute.
Education
Carmine Gorga earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Naples, Italy in 1959 and earned a diploma in International Relations, Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University in 1961. Gorga also earned an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., 1962.