J.F. Normano

TITS (also: John F. Normano, João Frederico Normano; 12 July 1887 – 25 April 1945; true name: Isaac Ilyich Levin, Russian: Исаак Ильич Левин) was a Russian-American economic historian and banker.

Major works

• Normano, J. F.: The Struggle for South America. Economy and Ideology, London 1931 and Boston 1931(re-edited Westport 1973). Brazilian edition: A Luta pela América do Sul, São Paulo 1944.
• Normano, J. F.: Brazil – A Study of Economic Types, Chapel Hill 1935 (re-edited: New York 1968). Brazilian edition: J. F. Normano: Evolução econômica do Brasil, São Paulo 1939 (re-edited São Paulo 1945, São Paulo 1975).
• Normano, J. F.: The Spirit of American Economics, New York 1943.
• Normano, J. F.: Asia between Two World Wars, New York 1944.
• Normano, J. F.: The Spirit of Russian Economics, New York 1945.

Literature

• Olga Jerochina: Ученый-экономист И.И. Левин: жизнь и деятельность в России до 1918 года (The economist I. I. Levin: Life and work in Russia until 1918). In: Terra Economicus, Rostov University, 7 (2009) 3, S. 128–132.
• Andrei A. Belych (ed.): И.И. Левин: Акционерные коммерческие банки в России (I. I. Levin: Joint-stock commercial banks in Russia), Moscow 2010.
• Hans H. Lembke: Bankier, Fälscher, Historiker. Der Weg des Isaac Lewin durch die Geschichte seiner Zeit (Banker, Forger, Historian. Isaac Levin’s way through time), Freiburg 2012.