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ROBERTO MARCHIONATTI
CURRICULUM VITAE
Present Position
Full Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Torino, 2000present
Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Torino, 2012Coordinator of CESMEP (Centro di studi sulla storia e i metodi dell’economia politica
“Claudio Napoleoni”), Department of Economics, University of Torino, 2001-present
‐ Coordinator of the Workshop on Revisiting the Boundaries of Economics. A Historical Perspective, hosted by Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2010‐present Editor of History of Economic Ideas (Impact Factor 0,2, Subject Categories JCR: Economics,
History, History of Social Sciences), 2004-present
Member of the Teaching Committee of the Ph.D. Programme in Economics ‘Vilfredo
Pareto’, University of Torino (since 2002, vice-Director from 2006 to 2010)
Member of the Editorial Committee of Rivista di Storia dell’Università di Torino, 2011present
Member of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Luigi Firpo, Torino, 2011- present
Member of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, 2012Previous Positions
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Torino (1994•99)
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sassari (1990•94)
From 1973 to 1990: Research Economist in Economic Research Companies in Torino and
Milano (1973-1983); Head of the Economic Research Department of the Italian Chemical
Industries Association, Milano (1984-5); Consultant economist (1986-1990).
Honors, Fellowships, ect.
Life Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK (since 1999)
Fellow of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (since 2009)
Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, UK, Faculty of Economics, Fall 1998•
Spring1999
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, New York University, Spring 1998
Research Fellow, Feltrinelli Foundation, Milano, 1977•1980
Research Grants
‐ 2002­2005: Principal Investigator, “The role of mathematics in the history of economics. A study on a controversial subject”, Project PRIN (Progetti di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale), Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), Italy ‐ 2003­2005: Principal Investigator, Compagnia di San Paolo Grant for the Project “La Scuola di economia di Torino, 1893‐1940” ‐ 2007­2009: Principal Investigator, Compagnia di San Paolo Grant for the Project “Dalla cronaca alla storia. L’interpretazione liberale della storia economica italiana nell’opera di Luigi Einaudi e della Scuola di Torino” ‐ 2007­2009: Principal Investigator, “Complexity and Economics”, Project PRIN (Progetti di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale), Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), Italy SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
A. JOURNAL ARTICLES
a. Last ten years: 2003-2012
• "When Italian Economics <<was second to none>>. Luigi Einaudi and the Turin School of
Economics", European Journal of The History of Economic Thought, forthcoming
• "Luigi Einaudi's Economics of Liberalism" (with F. Forte), European Journal of The History of
Economic Thought, 19 (4), 2012, 587-624
• “The economists and the primitive societies. A critique of economic imperialism”, The Journal of
Socio-Economics, 41, 2012, 529-540
• "Dumping as Price Discrimination. Jannaccone's Classic Theory before Viner" (with S. Cantono),
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 34 (2), June 2012, 193-218
• "On the cyclical variability of economic growth in Italy, 1881-1913" (with L. Sella), in
Cliometrica, 6 (3), October 2012, 307-328
• "A transdisciplinary perspective on economic complexity. Marshall's problem revisited", (with F.
Cassata), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 80/2011, pp. 122-136
• "J.M. Keynes, thinker of Economic Complexity", History of Economic Ideas, XVIII, n. 2, 2010,
pp. 115-146
• "Cronache economiche di un trentennio. Lo sviluppo dell'economia italiana 1881-1913
nell'interpretazione di Luigi Einaudi e la sua scuola", (with F. Cassata), Rivista di Storia
Economica, XXVI, n. 2, 2010, pp. 161-207
• "La scuola economica torinese e le sue riviste. La Riforma sociale e La Rivista di Storia
Economica, 1894-1943", Rivista storica italiana, n. 3, 2007, 1048-1088
• 'At the Origin of Post-War Mainstream of Economics: On Pareto's Influence on Economic
Theory', RISEC. International Review of Economics and Business, 4, 2007, pp. 538-559
• 'On the Application of Mathematics to Political Economy. The Edgeworth- Walras-Bortkievicz
Controversy, 1889-1891', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31, 2007, pp. 291-307
• 'Why Did Economic Science Take the Samuelsonian Path and what it is the Alternative?', in
History of Economic Ideas, n.3 2005, pagg. 133-137
• ‘Attilio Cabiati. Un economista liberale di fronte al crollo dell'ordine economico internazionale’,
in Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, n. 2/2004.
• ‘What don't economists know now that Marshall knew a century ago? A note on Marshall's
Sophisticated Informality’ in Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Spring 2004, pp.441-460.
• ‘Productivity and External Knowledge: The Italian Case’, (with C. Antonelli and S. Usai), Rivista
Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (RISEC), n.1, 2003, pp.69-90.
• ‘On the Methodological Foundation of Modern Microeconomics. Frank Knight and the Cost
Controversy in the 1920s’, History of Political Economy, 2003, 35, n. 1, pp.49-75.
b. Ten previous years 1993-2002
• ‘Between Walras and Ricardo. Ladislaus von Bortkievicz and the origin of Neo- Ricardian
Theory’ (with R. Fiorini), Revue Européenne de Sciences Sociales. Cahier Vilfredo Pareto, 38, n.
118, 2000, pp. 173-192.
• ‘On Keynes’ Animal Spirits’, Kyklos, 52, 3, 1999, pp. 415-439. Re-published in R. E. Allen (ed.)
The Political Economy of Financial Crises, E. Elgar 2004, vol. I, pp. 380-403
• ‘The Methodological Foundation of Pure and Applied Economics in Pareto. An anti-Walrasian
Programme’, Revue Européenne de Sciences Sociales. Cahier Vilfredo Pareto, 37, n. 116, 1999, pp.
277-294
• ‘Technological and Organizational Change in a Prospect of Industrial Rejuvenation. The case of
Italian Cotton Textile Industry’ (with C. Antonelli), Cambridge Journal of Economics, December
1998, pp. 1-18.
• ‘The Contribution of Vilfredo Pareto to the New Theories of Economics in the Years of the Cours
d’Economie Politique’ (with E. Gambino), History of Economic Ideas, December 1997
• ‘Pareto and Political Economy as a Science. Methodological Revolution and Analytical Advances
in Economic Theory in the 1890’s’ (with E. Gambino), Journal of Political Economy, 6, December
1997, pp. 1322-1348.
• ‘Voluntary Export Restraints, Dumping and Excess Capacity’ (with S. Usai), The Manchester
School, 5, 1997, pp. 499-512.
• ‘Un economista dissenziente. Claudio Napoleoni storico e critico della scienza economica’, Studi
economici, 58, 1996, pp. 5-27.
• ‘Keynes and the Collapse of the British Cotton Industry in the Tweenties. A Microeconomic case
against laissez-faire’, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, 3, 1995, pp. 427-445.
• ‘Sull’assenza di presupposti empirici in Sraffa’, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e
Commerciali, 6-7, 1993, pp. 599-604.
• ‘Sulla significatività del saggio di plusvalore dopo Sraffa’, Economia Politica, 2, 1993, pp. 203221.
B. MAIN MONOGRAPHS
a. (2003- 2012)
• Selected Economic Writings of Luigi Einaudi, vol. II (edited with R. Faucci), London, PalgraveMcMillan, forthcoming
• Attilio Cabiati. Profilo di un economista liberale, Torino, 2011
• Luigi Einaudi nella cultura, nella società e nella politica del Novecento (editor), Firenze, 2010
• Gli economisti e i selvaggi. L’imperialismo della scienza economica e i suoi limiti, Milano, 2008
• Vilfredo Pareto, Considerations of the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy
(critical edition, with F. Mornati, with introduction), London, Routledge, 2007
• Selected Economic Writings of Luigi Einaudi, vol. I (edited with L. Einaudi and R. Faucci, with
introduction), London, Palgrave-McMillan, 2006
• Early Mathematical Economics, 1871-1915 (editor, with an introductory essay, “The Classical Era
of Mathematical Economics”), London, Routledge, 2004, Four vols.
b. 1993-2002
• Piero Sraffa’s Political Economy. A Centenary Estimate (editor, with introduction and a
contribution on Sraffa and Marshall), London, Routledge, 2001
• “From our Italian correspondent”. Luigi Einaudi’s articles in The Economist, 1908-1946”,
Firenze, Olschki, 2000
• Karl Marx: Critical Responses (editor, with an introductory essay), London & New York,
Routledge, 1998, Four vols.
C. SOME SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
a. 1993-2012
• “Pareto’s influence on modern economics”, in New Essays on Pareto’s Economic Theory (eds. L.
Bruni and A. Motesano), Routledge, London, 2009, pp.110-129
• "Keynes on Economic Method. A reassessment of his Debate with Tinbergen and Other
Econometricians, 1938-43" (with G. Garrone), in: Open Economics (eds. R. Arena, S. Dow, M.
Klaes), London: Routledge, 2009
• ‘The Increasing Returns and Competition Dilemma from Marshall to Pigou’ in The Elgar
Companion to Alfred Marshall (eds. G. Becattini, M. Dardi and T. Raffaelli), Cheltenham, Elgar,
2006
• ‘Pareto et l'économie mathématique au début des années ’90. Quelques réflexions à propos des
“Considerazioni sui principii fondamentali dell’economia politica pura’, with F. Mornati, in Le
temps et l'idée. Histoire et théorie des sciences sociales. Hommage à Giovanni Busino, Droz, 2003
b. 1993-2002
• ‘Dealing with Complexity. Marshall and Keynes and the Nature of Economic Thinking’ in The
Economics of Alfred Marshall (Richard Aréna & Michel Quéré eds.), London, Palgrave, 2002,
pp.32-52
• ‘Sraffa and the criticism of Marshall in the Twenties. An interpretation’ in Piero Sraffa’s Political
Economy. A Centenary Estimate (R. Marchionatti and T. Cozzi eds.), London, Routledge, 2001
D. TEN CAREER-BEST PUBLICATIONS (Publications that I consider the most significant)
• ‘Pareto and Political Economy as a Science. Methodological Revolution and Analytical Advances
in Economic Theory in the 1890’s’ (with E. Gambino), Journal of Political Economy, 6, December
1997, pp. 1322-1348.
• ‘On Keynes’ Animal Spirits’, Kyklos, 52, 3, 1999, pp. 415-439. Re-published in R. E. Allen (ed.)
The Political Economy of Financial Crises, E. Elgar 2004, vol. I, pp. 380-403
• ‘On the Methodological Foundation of Modern Microeconomics. Frank Knight and the Cost
Controversy in the 1920s’, History of Political Economy, 2003, 35, n. 1, pp.49-75.
• ‘What don't economists know now that Marshall knew a century ago? A note on Marshall's
Sophisticated Informality’ in Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Spring 2004, pp.441-460.
• 'On the Application of Mathematics to Political Economy. The Edgeworth-Walras-Bortkievicz
Controversy, 1889-1891', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31, 2007, pp. 291-307
• "Keynes on Economic Method. A reassessment of his Debate with Tinbergen and Other
Econometricians, 1938-43" (with G. Garrone), in: Open Economics (eds. R. Arena, S. Dow, M.
Klaes), London: Routledge, 2009
• "J.M. Keynes, Thinker of Economic Complexity", History of Economic Ideas, XVIII, n. 2, 2010,
pp. 115-146
• "A transdisciplinary perspective on economic complexity. Marshall's problem revisited", (with F.
Cassata), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 80/2011, pp. 122-136
• “The economists and the primitive societies. A critique of economic imperialism”, Journal of
Socio-Economics, 41, 2012, 529-540
• "Luigi Einaudi's Economics of Liberalism" (with F. Forte), European Journal of The History of
Economic Thought, 19 (4), 2012
INDEX OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IMPACT: H-INDEX
PUBLISH or PERISCH
H-index: 11
G-index: 17
WEB of SCIENCE
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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZATION A. Conferences ‐ Conference: “'(Dis)occupazione e Moneta. Variazioni su temi Keynesiani a sessant'anni dalla General Theory”, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, dicembre 1996 ‐ Conference: “Economia, sociologia e politica nell’opera di Vilfredo Pareto”, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, 27‐28 novembre 1997 ‐ Conference: “Piero Sraffa, 1898‐1998”, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, 15‐17 ottobre 1998 ‐ Conference: “La Scuola di economia di Torino da Cognetti de Martiis a Luigi Einaudi”, University of Torino, Torino, 5‐7 maggio 2004 ‐ Conference: “La scuola di Torino e gli economisti stranieri”, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, 14 ottobre 2005 ‐ Conference: “La scuola di economia di Torino: co‐protagonisti ed epigoni tra economia e politica”, Fondazione Einaudi, Torino, 25 ottobre 2007 ‐ Conference: “Luigi Einaudi nella cultura, nella società e nella politica del Novecento”, Fondazione Einaudi, Torino, 16‐17 aprile 2009 B. Workshops ‐ Workshop on Revisiting the Boundaries of Economics. A Historical Perspective It is permanent workshop hosted by Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, inviting speakers
from a wide range of social disciplines to show the potential for a fully interdisciplinary
approach to issues of traditional or relatively new interest to economists, such as
methodology in relation to other social sciences, creativity, rationality, complexity,
evolution, gift-giving.
o I. (Moncalieri, 2010). Organised in 4 sections: “On creativity and Rationality” , “On Paradigm and Revolutions”, “On complexity and Evolution”; “On Gift and Exchange”. Speakers: Robert Leonard (Montreal), Bruna Ingrao (Roma), Vincenzo Crupi (Firenze and Torino), Pietro Terna (Torino), Francesco Cassata and Roberto Marchionatti (Torino), Keith Hart (London), Mario Cedrini (Piemonte Orientale). Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri. o II. (Moncalieri, 2011). Organised in two sections: “Antropology and the Criticism of economic ideology” (Speakers: Marshall Sahlins (Chicago), Roberto Marchionatti (Torino), Mario Cedrini (Torino), Francesco Guala (Milano), “A trandisciplinary perspective: Biology, Physics and Economics” (Speakers: Tiziano Raffaelli (Pisa), Clement Levallois (Rotterdam), Enrico Scalas (Piemonte Orientale). Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri o III. (Rome, 2012) “Econometrics: from Political Arithmetic to Probabilistic Revolution”. Jointly organised by Ecole Francaise de Rome & Collegio Carlo Alberto. Roma. Speakers: Eric Brian (Paris), Alain Desrosières (Paris), Alberto Baffigi, Banca d’Italia, Roma), Harro Maas (Utrech), Arianne Dupont‐Kieffer (IFSTTAR), Francisco Louca (Lisboa)