MOSCATI IVAN

IVAN MOSCATI
January 2026

CURRENT POSITIONS
Since 2018 Full Professor of Economics, University of Insubria, Department of Economics, Varese.
Since 2021 Research Fellow, Center Baffi CAREFIN, Bocconi University, Milan.
Since 2018 Adjunct Professor of History of Economic Thought, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
2022–2023 Chairman of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM).
2018–2021 Director of the Ph.D. program in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions, University of Insubria.
2012–2023 Adjunct Professor of History of Economic Thought, Bocconi.
2010–2024 Research Associate, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, UK.
2012–2018 Associate Professor of Economics, University of Insubria.
2006–2012 Lecturer in Economics and History of Economic Thought, Bocconi.
2003–2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Bocconi.

EDUCATION
2000–2003 Ph.D. in History of Economics, University of Florence, Italy.
1996–2000 B.A. degree in Philosophy, University of Augsburg, Germany.
1988–1995 B.S. degree in Economic and Social Sciences (DES), summa cum laude, Bocconi University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of microeconomics, with a focus on the history of utility theory and decision theory.
Philosophy of economics, with a focus on the epistemological status of economic models.
Experimental and behavioral economics.

RESEARCH AWARDS
2018 European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), Award for best article in the history of economic analysis for 2016/2017.
2008 History of Economics Society (HES), Award for the Craufurd Goodwin best article in the history of economics for 2007.
2003 Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE), Award for best young scholar’s paper presented at the 2003 AISPE conference.

VISITING POSITIONS
Apr. 2026 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
June 2025 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Mar.–Apr. 2025 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
Mar.–Apr. 2024 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
June 2023 Visiting Professor, PHARE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne.
Apr.–May 2023 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
May–June 2022 Visiting Fellow, EIPE, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Mar.–Apr. 2022 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
Nov.–Dec. 2016 Senior Visiting Fellow, MCMP, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.
Oct.–Nov. 2014 Visiting Fellow, École Normale Supérieure and IHPST, Paris.
Oct.–Nov. 2013 Visiting Fellow, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena.
June–July 2010 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics.
A.Y. 2008–2009 Visiting Fellow, CPNSS, London School of Economics.
Sept.–Dec. 2005 Visiting Fellow, CPNSS, London School of Economics.
Aug.–Dec. 2004 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Duke University, USA.


A: RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
[1] Classic and Modern Decision Theory: A History of Ideas (1650–2010), forthcoming.
Under contract with Cambridge University Press; expected publication in 2027.

[2] The History and Methodology of Expected Utility. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Reviews: N. Giocoli, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 32, 2025: 1–3.

[3] Measuring Utility. From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Symposia on the book:
Journal of Economic Methodology, 26, 2019: 380–400, with contributions by L. Beck and A. Alexandrova (380–384), M. Boumans (385–388), and I. Gilboa (389–392);
Œconomia, 9, 2019: 61–132, with contributions by J.-S. Lenfant (61–91), C. Herfeld (93–108), and C. Heilmann (109–117).
Reviews:
D. Read, Journal of Economic Literature, 57, 2019: 690–692; A Rosenberg, History of Political Economy, 51, 2019: 974–976; N. Giocoli, History of Economic Ideas, 27, 2019: 157–159; W. Peden, BJPS Review of Books, 2019; H. Maas, SHOE mailing list, August 6, 2019; B. Mosselmans, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 42, 2020: 138–141; A. Costella and E.M. Salonia, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 13, 2020: 93–101; C. Herfeld, Economics and Philosophy, 37, 2021: 144–150; T. Müller, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28, 2021, 492–493; G. Rodríguez Sánchez, Cahiers d’Économie Politique / Political Economy Papers, 80, 2021: 181–190.
Translations: Japanese translation for Keio University Press; expected publication in 2027.

[4] From Classical Political Economy to Behavioral Economics. Egea, 2012.
 
JOURNAL ARTICLES
[5] Psychological Narratives in Decision Theory: What They Are and What They Are Good For. Journal of Economic Methodology, 32, 2025: 265–286.
[6] Digital Nudging and Cookie Rejection: An Experiment, with L. Congiu and M. Scacchi. Italian Economic Journal, 11, 2025: 431–458.
[7] Behavioural and Heuristic Models are As-If Models Too—and That’s OK. Economics and Philosophy, 40, 2024: 279–309.
[8] Ellsberg 1961: Text, Context, Influence. Decisions in Economics and Finance, 47, 2024: 627–653.
[9] Between Worlds: Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023), with C. Zappia. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 17(1), 2024: 364–377.
[10] A Review of Nudges: Definitions, Justifications, Effectiveness, with L. Congiu. Journal of Economic Surveys, 36, 2022: 188–213.
[11] On the Recent Philosophy of Decision Theory. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28, 2021: 98–106.
[12] Message and Environment: A Framework for Nudges and Choice Architecture, with L. Congiu. Behavioural Public Policy, 4, 2020: 71–87.
[13] Measuring Utility Without ‘Externalist Fallacies’. Journal of Economic Methodology, 26, 2019: 393–400.
[14] More Light on Measuring Utility. Œconomia, 9, 2019: 119–132.
[15] Expected Utility Theory and Experimental Utility Measurement, 1950–1985. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24, 2017: 1318–1354.
[16] How Economists Came to Accept Expected Utility Theory: The Case of Samuelson and Savage. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30, 2016: 219–236.
[17] Measuring the Economizing Mind in the 1940s and 1950s. History of Political Economy, 48 (5), 2016: 239–269.
[18] Nash Was a First to Axiomatize Expected Utility, with H. Bleichrodt, C. Li, and P.P. Wakker. Theory and Decision, 81, 2016: 309–312.
[19] Over-the-Counter Markets vs. Double Auctions: A Comparative Experimental Study, with G. Attanasi and S. Centorrino. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 63, 2016: 22–35.
[20] Measurement Theory and Utility Analysis in Suppes’ Early Work, 1951–1958. Journal of Economic Methodology, 23, 2016: 252–267.
[21] Twentieth-Century Italian Economic Thought through the Lens of the Giornale degli Economisti. Giornale degli Economisti, 125, 2015: v–xx.
[22] Introduction: Methodologies of Bounded Rationality, with T. Grüne-Yanoff and C. Marchionni. Journal of Economic Methodology, 21, 2014: 325–342.
[23] Were Jevons, Menger and Walras Really Cardinalists?. History of Political Economy, 45, 2013: 373–414.
[24] How Cardinal Utility Entered Economic Analysis, 1909–1944. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 20, 2013: 906–939.
[25] Intension, Extension, and the Model of Belief and Knowledge in Economics. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5(2), 2012: 1–26.
[26] Becker Random Behavior and the As-If Defense of Rational Choice Theory in Demand Analysis, with P. Tubaro. Journal of Economic Methodology, 18, 2011: 107–128.
[27] More Economics, Please: We’re Historians of Economics. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30, 2008: 85–91.
[28] Early Experiments in Consumer Demand Theory: 1930–1970. History of Political Economy, 39, 2007: 359–401.
[29] History of Consumer Demand Theory 1871–1971: A Neo-Kantian Rational Reconstruction. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14, 2007: 119–156.
[30] The Logic of Experimental Discovery. History of Economic Ideas, 14, 2006: 123–130.
[31] W.E. Johnson’s 1913 Paper and the Question of his Knowledge of Pareto. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27, 2005: 283–304.
[32] La riflessione di Enzo Paci sull’economia politica: una disamina economico-filosofica. Economia Politica, 17, 2000: 93–112.
 
BOOK CHAPTERS AND DICTIONARY ENTRIES
[33] History of Utility Theory. In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics, edited by C. Heilmann and J. Reiss, New York: Routledge, 2022, 23–36.
[34] Not a Behaviorist: Samuelson’s Contributions to Utility Theory in the Harvard Years, 1936–1940. In Paul Samuelson. Master of Modern Economics, edited by R. A. Cord. R. Anderson, and W. Barnett, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019: 243–278.
[35] Austrian Debates on Utility Measurement, from Menger to Hayek. In Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Part IV. England, the Ordinal Revolution and the Road to Serfdom, 1931–1950, edited by R. Leeson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 137–179.
[36] Teoria della scelta razionale. In Enciclopedia Filosofica, edited by V. Melchiorre, vol. 10: 10105–10109. Milano: Bompiani, 2006.
[37] Short entries in Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani: Equilibrio di Nash (vol. 4: 3512–3513), Free rider (vol. 5: 4469–4470), Giochi cooperativi (vol. 5: 4754–4755), Giochi non-cooperativi (vol. 5: 4755), Incertezza e rischio (vol. 6: 5581–5582).

EDITORSHIPS
[38] Editor of the third and fourth Italian editions of B.D. Bernheim and M.D. Whinston, Microeconomics, McGraw-Hill Italy, 2016 (3rd edition), 2022 (4th edition).
[39] Guest editor for the STOREP symposium published in the Review of Political Economy, with A. Stirati and P. Paesani, 34 (4), 2022.
[40] Guest editor for the special issue of the Giornale degli Economisti on “Classics from the Giornale degli Economisti in English Translation”, 125 (2–3), 2015.
[41] Guest editor for the special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology on “Methodological Perspectives on Recent Theories of Bounded Rationality”, with C. Marchionni and T. Grüne-Yanoff, 21 (4), 2014.
[42] Editor of the second Italian edition of B.D. Bernheim and M.D. Whinston, Microeconomics, Milan: McGraw-Hill Italy, 2012, with A.M. Cardani.
 
BOOK REVIEWS
[43] Review of C. Zappia, L’incertezza in economia. Una storia delle teorie da Keynes ai giorni nostri, Carocci, 2024. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 32, 2005: 627–630.
[44] Review of G. Szpiro, Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty. Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making. Columbia University Press, 2020. History of Political Economy, 52, 2021: 367–369.
[45] Review of B. Mosselmans, Marginalism, Agenda Publishing, 2018. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 42, 2020: 290–292.
[46] Review of V. Barnett, E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician, Routledge, 2011. History of Economic Ideas, 21, 2013: 139–141.
[47] Review of R. Frisch, A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory, Routledge, 2011, and of R. Frisch, Problems and Methods of Econometrics, Routledge, 2009. History of Economic Ideas, 21, 2013: 134–135.
[48] Review of D. Hausman, Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5, 2012: 125–131.
[49] War, Peace, and the Birth of Game Theory. A Review of R. Leonard, Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Journal of Economic Methodology, 18, 2011: 434–440.
[50] The Visible Hand Historically X-Rayed. A Review of S.G. Medema, The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas, Princeton University Press, 2011. History of Economic Ideas, 19, 2011: 169–175.
[51] Review of A. Caplin and A. Schotter (eds.), The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook, Oxford University Press, 2008. Economics and Philosophy, 26, 2010: 101–108.
[52] Review of V. Pareto, Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy, Routledge, 2007. History of Economic Ideas, 16, 2008: 163–164.
[53] Review of N. Giocoli, Modeling Rational Agents, Elgar, 2003. Economia Politica, 21, 2004: 361–365.
[54] Review of M.P. Schinkel, Disequilibrium Theory, Maastricht University Press, 2002. History of Economic Ideas, 11, 2003: 124–128.
[55] Review of L. Bruni, Vilfredo Pareto, Polistampa 1999. Pensiero Economico Italiano, 9, 2001: 189–192.
 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
[56] Introduction to the STOREP symposium, with A. Stirati and P. Paesani, Review of Political Economy, 34, 2022: 613–614.
[57] Translations into English, with H. Ampt, of articles originally published in Italian in the Giornale degli Economisti: C. Gini, Prices and Consumption, 1910; L. Einaudi, On the Concept of “State as Factor of Production”, 1942; B. de Finetti, On Preferability, 1952; A. Montesano, The Notion of Dynamic Economics, 1972. In Giornale degli Economisti, 125, 2015: 149–171, 231–255, 257–279, and 297–334.
[58] The Canary in Context, History of Economic Ideas, 16 (3), 2008: 98–100.

WORKING PAPERS AND UNPUBLISHED WORKS
[59] Sleeping Beauties in Economics: Allais, Arrow, and the 75th Anniversary of the 1952 Paris Conference on Risk, with R. Sugden and I. Boldyrev, 2026.
[60] Framing Allais: Is the Paradox Robust to the Pictorial Framing of Probabilities?, with L. Congiu, 2025.
[61] Epistemic Virtues and Theory Choice in Economics. LSE–CPNSS Discussion Paper 79/06, September 2006.
[62] Storia della teoria neoclassica del consumatore (1871-1959): una prospettiva neokantiana, Ph.D. thesis, History of Economics, University of Florence, supervisor M. Dardi, 2003.
[63] Kritische Geschichte der Neoklassischen Theorie des Konsumenten. Eine philosophische Untersuchung über die Logik der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, B.A. thesis, Philosophy, University of Augsburg, supervisor S. Müller, 2000.
[64] La questione delle scienze nella fenomenologia di Husserl e il tentativo di una fondazione fenomenologica dell’economia politica nella riflessione di Enzo Paci, B.S. thesis, Economic and Social Sciences (DES), Bocconi University, supervisor G. Lunghini, 1995.
 
RESEARCH GRANTS
2016–2017 Principal investigator, grant from ESHET for research on “Explorations in the Recent History of Decision Theory, 1945‐1990”, with C. Herfeld.
2008–2010 Member of the University of Florence unit, PRIN 2007 grant from MUR for research on “Complexity and Economic Theory”.
2004–2006 Principal investigator, grant from Bocconi University for research on “The Epistemic Program in Game and Decision Theory”.
2003–2005 Member of the University of Florence unit, PRIN 2002 grant from MUR for research on “Mathematics in the History of Economics”.

RESEARCH ASSESSMENTS
2022 Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), Research quality assessment (VQR) 2015–2019, three products evaluated: A, A, A, or 88.5/90.
2016 MUR, VQR 2011–2014, two products evaluated: 1.70/2.00.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
ASSOCIATE EDITORSHIPS
2016–2018 Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET).
2012–2016 Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology (JEM).

MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
Since 2018 Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
Since 2016 Journal of Economic Methodology.
2011–2018 Œconomia – History, Methodology, Philosophy.
2011 Journal of Economic Methodology.

REFEREEING
JOURNALS Econometrica; American Economic Review; Review of Economic Studies; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Economica; Theory and Decision; Oxford Economic Papers; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Decisions in Economics and Finance; Economics and Philosophy; Journal of Economic Methodology; Erkenntnis; European Journal for Philosophy of Science; International Review of Economics; History of Political Economy; Journal of the History of Economic Thought; European Journal of the History of Economic Thought; History of Economic Ideas; Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
PUBLISHERS Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press Routledge; Etas–RCS.
OTHERS MUR, referee for PRIN projects; Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Einstein Foundation Berlin, Germany. 
INVITED SEMINARS AND TALKS
2026–2022
Workshop “Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications”, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
Society & Choice Research Seminar, University of Basel.
Séminaire Philosophie et Histoire de l’Analyse Economique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne.
Séminaire Cercle d’Epistémologie de l’Economie, Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne.
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics Seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Séminaire Philosophies et pensées économiques et sociologiques, Université de Lille.

2021–2013
Workshop “Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications”, Paris School of Economics.
PEEH, Universität Bayreuth.
Workshop in honor of Philippe Mongin, Université Paris 2 Panthéon–Assas.
Broaden Your Frame seminars, Bocconi University, Milan.
Workshop in memory of Tiziano Raffaelli, University of Pisa.
Institute of Economics (IdEP), Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano.
Workshop “Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications”, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.
Workshop “Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications”, Université Paris–Dauphine, Paris.
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid.
Workshop “Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications”, GIE Axa, Paris.
GREDEG, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice.
Cercle d’Epistémologie de l’Economie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne.
HPPE seminars, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics.
Groupe Décision, Rationalité et Interaction (DRI), IHPST, Paris.
LEM, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena.
Centre Walras Pareto, Université de Lausanne.
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics.

Before 2012
CESMEP, University of Turin.
Université Lumière Lyon.
EIPE, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
CPNSS, London School of Economics.
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris.
Plenary talk, annual meeting of the History of Economics Society, York University, Toronto.
Department of Economics, University of Ancona.
Department of Economics, Queen Mary University of London.
CPNSS, London School of Economics.
History of Political Economy Seminar, Duke University.
CISEPS, University of Milan Bicocca. 
CONFERENCES
2026–2020
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and History of Economics Society (HES) joint conference, University Côte d’Azur, Nice.
Italian Economic Association (SIE), University of Naples Federico II.
International Network for Economic Method (INEM), Universität Bayreuth.
ESHET, University of Turin.
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) network Europe, University of Milan and UniSR, Milan.
INEM, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; INEM, Arizona State University.
Italian Society for the History of Political Economy (STOREP), University of Insubria.

Before 2020
HES, Columbia University, New York; ESHET, University of Lille; INEM, University of Helsinki; STOREP, Catholic University, Piacenza; ESHET, University of Antwerp; SIE, Bocconi University; HES, Duke University; ESHET, Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne;
Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), San Francisco; HES, Michigan State University; ESHET, University of Rome 3; History of Political Economy (HOPE) conference, Duke University; ASSA, Boston; “Economics and Psychology in Historical Perspective”, Université Paris 1;
HES, Université du Québec à Montréal; STOREP, University of Bergamo;
History of Recent Economics (HISRECO), University of Siena;
SIE, University of Bologna; STOREP, University of Cassino;
INEM, Erasmus University Rotterdam; HES, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE), University of Florence;
STOREP, University of Padua; HES, Brock University, St. Catharines;
ESHET, Saint Petersburg State University; AISPE, University of Pisa;
STOREP, University of Lecce; International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS), Lucca;
STOREP, University of Trento; ESHET, University of Amsterdam;
PRIN 2007 workshop, University of Turin;
STOREP, University of Florence; HES, University of Colorado at Denver;
Workshop on “Observation in Economics and Natural Sciences”, University of Amsterdam;
ASSA, San Francisco; INEM, UNED, Madrid;
STOREP, LUISS University, Rome; HES, York University, Toronto;
European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE), University of Siena;
ESHET, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg; STOREP, Pollenzo (CN);
AISPE, University of Padua; INEM, Grinnell College, Grinnell (IA);
HES, Grinnell College; ESHET, University of Porto;
STOREP, University of Siena; ESHET, University of Stirling;
STOREP, Belgirate (VB); HES, Victoria University, Toronto;
ESHET, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; HES, Duke University;
AISPE, University of Brescia; ESHET, Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne.

B: TEACHING
UNDERGRADUATE
Since 2023 Economia industriale, B.Sc. in Economics and Management, Insubria University.
Since 2018 Storia critica del pensiero economico, B.Sc. in Economics, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano.
2014–2023 Evolution of Economic Ideas, elective course for various B.Sc. programs, Bocconi University, Milan.
2012–2023 Microeconomia, B.Sc. in Economics and Management, Insubria.
2014 Macroeconomia, B.Sc. in Economics and Management, Insubria.
2006–2014 History of Economic Thought, elective course for various B.Sc. programs, Bocconi University.
2007–2012 Storia economica e del pensiero economico, B.Sc. in Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication, Bocconi University.
2003–2011 Microeconomia, various B.Sc. programs, Bocconi University.
2006 Metodologia economica, B.Sc. in Philosophy, San Raffaele University, Milan.
2005 Game Theory, B.Sc. in Economics, Queen Mary, University of London.

GRADUATE
Since 2016 Behavioral and Experimental Economics, M.Sc. in Economics of Innovation, Insubria.
2014–2016 Behavioral Economics and Finance, M.Sc. in Economics of Innovation, Insubria.

PH.D.
Since 2015 Courses or reading groups on the history and methodology of decision theory, Ph.D. in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions, Insubria.
2025–2022 Courses or reading groups on the history and methodology of decision theory, Ph.D. in Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
2010–2015 Classics in the Economic Thought of the 20th Century, Ph.D. in Economics and Finance, Bocconi University.
2013 History of Utility Theory, Ph.D. in Economics of Innovative Change, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany.

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS (INSUBRIA)
Undergraduate: 4/6 students per year.
Graduate: 2/3 students per year.
Ph.D: M. Marini (2019), L. Congiu (2020), A. Noci (2021); Z. Al Kaffaf (2024).
C: ORGANIZATION, SERVICE, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2026 Summer school on “Philosophy of Economics”, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies (LCSAS), 7–12/6, 2026, with C. Marchionni, F. Guala, and R. Seri.
2024 Summer school on “Philosophy of Economics”, LCSAS, 23–28/6, 2024, with F. Guala and R. Seri.
2023 Biennial conference of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 24–26/5, 2023, with P. Dindo.
2022 Summer school on “Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies”, LCSAS, 26/6–1/7, 2022, with F. Guala and R. Seri.
2021 Annual conference of the Italian Society for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) on “Law and Economics: History, Institutions, Public Policies”, online, 16–18/6, 2021.
2019 Summer school on “Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies”, LCSAS, 30/6–5/7, 2019, with F. Guala and R. Seri.
2017 Summer school on “The Evolution of the Economic Theory of Decision Making”, LCSAS, 28/8–1/9, 2017, with F. Guala and R. Seri.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
2022–2023 Chairman of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM).
2017–2020 Member of ANVUR, committee in charge of updating the ranking of scientific journals for economic and statistical sciences (“Area 13”).
2014–2017 Member of the executive committee of the History of Economics Society (HES).
2012–2015 Member of the executive committee of the Italian Society for the History of Political Economy (STOREP).

DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Since 2024 Member of the methodological review board of the Insubria Experimental Economics Research Center (InExEc), University of Insubria.
Since 2023 Member of the managing board supervising the project Department of Excellence 2023–2027, Insubria.
Since 2015 Member of the scientific board of the Ph.D. program in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions, Insubria.
2018–2021 Director of the Ph.D. program in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions, Insubria.
2012–2018 Director of the B.Sc. program in Economics and Management, Insubria.
2011–2012 Assistant Director of the B.Sc. program in Economics and Social Sciences (ESS), Bocconi University, Milan.
2010–2011 Organizer of the seminar series “MicroCafé: Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics”, with F. Guala, Bocconi U. and University of Milan.

POPULARIZATION
History of economic thought pills in “Tempi Moderni” by Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana (RSI), 2018–2021; talks on Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Walras, Hayek, Keynes, Ostrom; Game theory, Behavioural economics; New development economics.