Giulia Zacchia is a research fellow in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a PhD in History of Economic Thought from the University of Macerata (Italy). She worked on microfinance and in the formal financial sector in Italy. She specializes in the history of contemporary economics with a gender perspective, and in methods and consequences of research evaluation in economics. Her research interests extend to microfinance, women’s empowerment and migrations.
Giulia Zacchia
By this expert
Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part II
INET talks to Jayati Ghosh and Marina Della Giusta
Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part I
INET talks to Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Claudia Goldin, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Fighting for Gender Equality in Economics Is Not Nearly Enough
The field of economics is aggressively sexist and biased against new and unconventional ideas. Revelations about gender and ethnic discrimination show the need to reorient the whole system toward more freedom, respect, openness, and pluralism. But how?
How Academic Conformity Punishes Women—and Restricts the Diversity of Economic Ideas
Skewed measures of “research output” hold back women who think differently or study smaller subfields in economics—and it’s harming the discipline as a whole
Featuring this expert
Reawakening From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time
INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.