I have a BA honours (4 academic years) in Economics with full marks at the University of Naples “Federico II”, July 1986; a Master of Arts (MA) in “International Business and Economic Development”, University of Reading (UK); and a Master in “Economia e Amministrazione” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. For both Masters the final assessment was of high level.
I spent one year (1992/1993) as visiting research at the University of Cambridge (UK) studying the role of policies and institutions in promoting economic development and technological competence in backward areas.
I am a Senior researcher in economics at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Rome, Italy. In my main research fields — Original Institutional Economics, post Keynesian theories and other heterodox perspectives, also considered in an interdisciplinary perspective — I have authored/edited over 10 books (two in progress) and over 15 book chapters with qualified publishers (in particular, Routledge, Elgar, Pickering and Chatto, World Economics Association), and over 40 articles in scholarly Journals.
I am the scientific director of the Journal Il Pensiero Economico Moderno, member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Economics, Studi Economici e Sociali and Nuova Economia e Storia.
I am working on a number of sustainable economics issues related to the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, with particular attention to the policies that can speed their application.
