Alberto Quadrio Curzio

Vice President of the Accademia dei Lincei and Catholic University of Milan

PRESENT POSITION

Professor of Political Economy at the Catholic University, Milan, since 1976 ; Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, since 1989 ; Founder and Director of the Research Centre in Economic Analysis, International Economics and Economic Development (CRANEC) since 1977. President since 2009 of the Class of Moral Sciences and Vice-President of "National Academy of Lincei", the oldest academy in the world founded at the beginning of the XVII Century by Federico Cesi and Galileo Galilei. He is member of the Scientific Council of many reviews (Italian and foreign), of research Institutions and Foundations. He was founder in 1984 and since than Director of Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics by Il Mulino. He is columnist of Corriere della Sera.

PAST POSITION

Since 1965, he has taught at the University of Cagliari and then Bologna, where he was appointed full Professor since 1972 and, in 1974/75, Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences. In 1976, he has founded the Institute of economic sciences at the University of Bergamo. Past President of the ʺItalian Economists’ Societyʺ, after being member and Vice‐President of its Directive Council. Representative of the economists at CNR (the National Research Council) for ten years. Past President of the "Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere". Member of the Committee for the "EIB Prize" from 1995 to 2000, President of "Lezione Paolo Baffi di Moneta e Finanza" Scientific Committee (Banca d’Italia 2003) and member of the "Reflection Group on the Spiritual and Cultural Dimension of Europe" from 2002 to 2003, created by Romano Prodi ‐ President of the European Commission. PRIZES

He received the S. Vincent prize for Economics, the international prize ʺCortina Ulisseʺ and eight other Prizes. In 2000 he received, from the President of the Italian Republic, the gold medal for ʺBenemeriti della Scienza e della Culturaʺ.

RESEARCH FIELD AND PUBLICATIONS

He gave lectures at many Italian and foreign universities and he was speaker at many conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad (Tokyo, Jakarta, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Lisboa, Bruxelles, Mexico City, United States,…). His researches are mainly based on three issues :

Institutional and applied economics related to European Union and Italy, economic development, North‐South‐East dynamics, international economic relations ;
Economic theory referred to : income distribution and interest rate ; scarse natural resources, technological resources and rent ; human resources and education ; history of economic thought in particular 18th and 19th century economists and contemporary Italian economists ;
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Development related to : economic systems based on the correlation between Institution, Society and Market ; levels of government that can promote a balanced economic development.

He has published around 350 scientific works, many of which are in the English language ; one of his volumes has also been translated into Chinese. His works have been published in various formats by a number of leading publishing houses (Il Mulino, Oxford University Press, North Holland, Elsevier, Macmillan, Basil Blackwell, and Springer‐Verlag, Giuffré, F. Angeli, Vita e Pensiero). The American Economic Associationʹs electronic bibliography, EconLit, has 73 records of articles, essays and volumes written or edited by Alberto Quadrio Curzio.