Transcript Short CV Alessandro Roncaglia Born in Rome, Italy, 17.6

Short CV
Alessandro Roncaglia
Born in Rome, Italy, 17.6.1947
Home: Via Serranti 75, I 00136 Rome, Italy
Office: Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 295,
00161 Rome, Italy
Present position:
- Professor of Economics, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (since 1981)
- Editor, ‘Moneta e Credito’ and ‘PSL Quarterly Review’, previously (up to 2007) ‘Banca
Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review’ (since 1988)
- Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1998-2007 corresponding member; since 2007,
national member)
Career:
- Degree in Statistics, University of Rome, 1969, magna cum laude (dissertation on ‘Capitale
fisso e progresso tecnico in Sraffa’, supervisor Paolo Sylos Labini)
- Assistant (since 1969) and Associate professor (since 1973), then Professor (since 1980) of
Economics, University of Perugia.
- Research leave in Cambridge, UK, 1971-73 (research work supervised by Piero Sraffa). Visiting
professor: Rutgers University, USA, 1978; University of Nice, 1983; University of Paris XI,
1987.
- General council and Executive committee, ISCO (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sulla Congiuntura
Economica), 1989-98; vice-president, 1992-98.
- Member, Società Italiana degli Economisti; Presidency Council, 1992-95; President, 2010-2013.
- President, associazione culturale Economia civile (since its foundation, 2011).
Awards:
The Italian edition of his book, ‘The wealth of ideas. A history of economic thought’, later
published in an expanded edition in English with Cambridge University Press, has won the 2002
Jerome Blanqui Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.