Alessandro Roncaglia (Roma, 1947) professor of economics at Sapienza University of Rome (1981-2017); editor, Moneta e credito and PSL (previously BNL) Quarterly Review (1989-2016), and member of their Editorial board (since 1979); managing board of editors, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (since its foundation in 1978); member, Società Italiana degli Economisti (presidency Council, 1992-95; president, 2010-2013). He is president, associazione culturale Economia civile since its foundation in 2011, and member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1998-2007 corresponding member; since 2007, national member; Joint academic administrator and member of the Presidency council, 2018-). Author of articles and books translated in many languages, from Spanish to Chinese, from Japanese to Russian, from Korean to Catalan; among these, Piero Sraffa (Macmillan Palgrave, 2009) and The wealth of ideas (CUP, 2005), the Italian edition of which (Laterza 2001) received the Jerome Blanqui Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought in 2003.
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Adam Smith and the Moral Foundations of Political Economy
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Inflation and Power
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The theoretical approaches to analyzing crises have behind them contrasting conceptions of the way the economy works
Experts on Trial: A Symposium
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A Preface to Alessandro Roncaglia’s Essay on Adam Smith
As America marks 250 years of independence, Adam Smith is again being pressed into service as a founding myth. A deeper reading of The Wealth of Nations reveals a far richer thinker than today’s easy invocations of markets and liberty suggest.
Finally, an Economist Takes on the Topic of Power
Alessandro Roncaglia has mulled the topic of power over his long and distinguished career – a topic most economists avoid. His new book explores the historical dynamics of power and asks how we can change its distribution today.
Experts on Trial: Introduction
Widespread criticism of elites and their ‘experts ’ raises questions about how economists should perceive their role, and what role societies should give them. We invited four scholars to start an online conversation by sharing their perspectives