Basic info
I am a professor of economics at Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L’Aquila, where I teach and conduct research on macroeconomics, economic modeling, monetary economics, ecological economics, and theory of value and distribution. I am a senior visiting research fellow in economics at the Leeds University Business School, where, from 2021 to 2024, I led and coordinated the WP5 of the EU-funded project A JUst Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). In addition, I am a senior visiting research fellow in macroeconomics at Angelo King Institute of the De La Salle University of Manila. I also collaborated with the Central University of Finance and Economics and the Center for China Fiscal Development of Beijing. From 2021 to 2025, I was a member of the Academic Board of the PhD Programme in Social Sciences at the University of Padua. I am currently a member of the Academic Board of the PhD Programme in Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics at the University of L’Aquila. My main research interests are in macroeconomics, dynamic economic models, monetary economics, environmental economics, and the theory of value and distribution. My academic qualifications are detailed in my CV.
While I was trained in neoclassical economics, I have since questioned the dominant (subjective scarcity-based) approach and instead advocate for a macro-monetary reproduction paradigm. My economics pantheon includes a diverse range of scholars, such as David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Michal Kalecki, Piero Sraffa, Hyman Minsky, Richard Goodwin, Paolo Sylos-Labini, Luigi Pasinetti, Wynne Godley, and Augusto Graziani.
On a personal note, I am married to Marica Grego, who holds a post-doctoral contract at the University of Pavia, and we have a daughter named Alice. I am an active member of several academic societies, including Economia e Politica, Reteaching Economics, the Italian Post-Keynesian Network, and the Post-Keynesian Economics Society.
The lens through which I view the world
What would you have done if you were not an economist?
Well, when I was a teenager, I had three idols: Che Guevara, Maradona and Jim Morrison. I don’t know why, but I have a feeling that something went wrong. (Read the interview here [Italian only])