The Influence of Virtuous Human Life in Sustaining Nature (PDF) 2014
Università di Bologna
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Piazza Scaravilli, 2
Bologna
Italy
Honorary Academicians
Date of birth 04 January 1943
Place Rimini, Italy (Europe)
Nomination 09 April 2013 - 10 October 2023 (Appointment as PASS President from 5 March 2019 to 31 March 2023; Honorary Member)
Field International Political Economics; Civil Economy; Economics and Ethics
Title Professor of Economics, University of Bologna. Vice Director, SAIS Bologna, Senior Adjunct Professor of International Political Economics
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Professor of Economics and former Dean of the Economics Faculty at the University of Bologna; Member of the board of LUMSA University, Rome; Member of the scientific board of the doctoral program in economics at the Catholic University of Argentina; former Member of the scientific committee of Ente L. Einaudi of the Bank of Italy; co-editor of Economia Politica, a quarterly review published by Il Mulino; Member of the editorial boards of Sociologia, Migration Studies and Diritti umani e diritto internazionale; Associate editor, International Review of Economics; Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Modena and Milan; Member of the academic committee of the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Center at Harvard University; Past-President of Agenzia per le ONLUS (Italian Charity Commission); Doctor honoris causa, Charles University, Prague; "Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez" Medal, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago Chile (2011); 3rd annual Premio Sentinella del Creato (2011); Honorary Degree in Economics, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid (2010); 18th annual Premio Internazionale per il Dialogo fra i Popoli e le loro Culture; International Prize for "Economics and Society", Centesimus Annus Foundation, Vatican City (2013); San Benedetto Prize, Fondazione Sublacense, Subiaco (2013); Member of the Scientific Committee of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City; Member of the National Council of the Third Sector, Rome; Giuseppe Toniolo Prize for Economic Culture (2017); Member of the Scientific Committee of the Social Impact Agenda, Italy.
Summary of scientific research
Welfare economics, theory of consumer behavior, social choice theory, economic epistemology, ethics, history of economic thought and civil economy.
Main publications
Responsabili (2009); Diseguali (2020); Laudata Economia (2021); Inclusive Solidarity and Integration of Marginalized People (2017); Nation, State, Nation-State (2020); Prudence (2015); Banche di Comunità (2018); Civil Economy, co-authored (2016); Economy is Cooperation (2017); Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise, co-editor (2013); Impresa responsabile e mercato civile (2013); Famiglia e lavoro, co-author (2012); Per un'economia a misura di persona (2012); Libro Bianco sul Terzo Settore (2011); Microeconomia: scelte, relazioni, economia civile, co-author (2010); Dizionario di Economia Civile, co-author (2010); Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization, co-author (2010); Microeconomics, co-author (2010); Avarizia: La passione dell’avere (2009); Markets, Money and Capital: Hicksian Economics for the Twenty-First Century, co-editor (2008); The Cooperative Enterprise, co-author (2008); Civil Economy, co-author (2007); L’economia del bene comune (2007); History of Economic Thought, co-author (2005, 2nd edition; translated into Greek and Spanish); Verso una nuova teoria economica della cooperazione, co-author (2005); Economics: A European Text, co-author (2002); author of numerous books and journal articles on welfare economics, theory of consumer behavior, social choice theory, economic epistemology, ethics, history of economic thought and civil economy.
Professional Address
Si Vis Pacem, Para Civitatem: The Role of Gift as Gratuitousness (PDF) 2012
The Proximate and Remote Causes of a Crisis Foretold: A View from Social Catholic Thought (PDF) 2010
Reciprocity, Civil Economy, Common Good (PDF) 2008