Alberto Quadrio-Curzio

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Alberto Quadrio-Curzio

Alberto Quadrio Curzio (born December 25, 1937 in Tirano , Province of Sondrio , Italy ) is an Italian economist and political scientist , Professor Emeritus of Political and Economic Sciences at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in Milan, President Emeritus the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and President of the International Balzan Prize Foundation.

biography

Academic career

After graduating from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a degree in political science in 1961, Quadrio-Curzio went to Cambridge University to study . He taught at the University of Cagliari from 1965 and from 1968 to 1975 at the University of Bologna , where he was appointed full professor and dean of the Faculty of Political Science. From 1976 to 2010 he was Full Professor of Economics at the Università Cattolica , where he founded the Research Center for Economic Analysis ( Centro di ricerche in analisi economica , CRANEC), which he headed from 1977 to 2010. From 1989 to 2010 he was Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Università Cattolica.

Offices and academic positions

Since 2011 he has been Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Università Cattolica Milan and President of the CRANEC Center.

In 2020 he was appointed President of the International Balzan Prize Foundation, of which he has been deputy chairman since 2014.

He is the emeritus president of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , of which he has been a member since 1996. From 2009 he was deputy president and president of the class of moral, historical and philological studies, from 2015 to 2018 then president. He represented the academy at the G7 science academies in Germany (Berlin 2015) and Japan (Tokyo 2016) and in 2017 organized the G7 academies in Rome, where he also coordinated the working group that created the “Joint Statement on New Economic Growth: the role of science, technology, innovation, infrastructure ”. From 1995 to 2005 he was a member of the “EIB Prize” commission and in 2003 chaired the scientific committee of the “Lezioni Paolo Baffi di Moneta e Finanza” of the Italian National Bank.

He was a member of the commission "Reflection Group on the Spiritual and Cultural Dimension of Europe" initiated by Romano Prodi in 2002, which dealt with the reflection on the values ​​that are particularly important for the process of European unification. His theses on social liberalism and solidarism led to a long-standing Collaboration with the Archbishop of Milan Carlo Maria Martini .

In the academic year 2010/2011 he was appointed Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens' College in Cambridge and Visiting Professor at the Center for Financial Analysis & Policy at Judge Business School in Cambridge.

From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Financial History at Cambridge University. He was president of the Società italiana degli economisti (Italian Society of Economists), for 10 years representative of Italian economists in the National Research Council CNR, chairman of the Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere (Institute for Natural Sciences and Humanities of Lombardy), member of various Italian scientific scientists Academies (Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Accademia Pontaniana, Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna), the Academia Europaea in the Department of Economics and Business Administration and Management, the Royal Economic Society.

He is a member of the governing bodies of the Il Mulino publishing house, the Aspen Institute Italia, the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and other scientific and cultural institutions.

For many years he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Pontifical Foundation Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) based in the Vatican; In 2017 Giovanni Marseguerra succeeded him.

He is the founder and since 1984 director of the magazine Economia politica, which has been published jointly by the publishing house Il Mulino and Springer Verlag since 2015 . Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics . He is a member of the scientific advisory board of numerous international journals. He has given lectures and seminars at many universities in Italy and abroad.

Since 2019 he has been the ambassador of the Organization for Women in Science for the Third World (OWSD), a UNESCO organization that is part of the TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Third World), of which he is a member of the steering committee.

Since the second half of the 1980s he has been writing editorials in the business and financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

competitive sport

In his youth he was a great talent in alpine skiing, who was trained in Bormio by Stefano Sertorelli , a former Olympic champion. Besides Gustav Thöni , he was the only athlete who achieved excellent results in all three disciplines at the Italian youth championships in 1955. He gave up skiing before the Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 in order to devote himself to studying. For Mario Cotelli (trainer and technical director of the Italian high-performance ski in the 1970s) A. Quadrio Curzio anticipated the technique of independent skis and the transfer technique, which was later applied by JC Killy.

honors and awards

Quadrio Curzio has received eighteen science or culture awards.

  • 1994: Officer of the Order of St. Gregory (Commendatore dell'ordine di San Gregorio Magno)
  • 2000: Gold Medal for Services to Science and Culture (granted by the Italian President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi).
  • 2011: Ambrogino d'oro (Medal of Merit of the City of Milan, presented by the Mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia)
  • 2014: Grand Cross Knight of the Order of Gregory (Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell'Ordine di San Gregorio Magno)
  • 2017: Knight of the Order of Pius (Cavaliere dell'Ordine Piano)

Scientific work

His scientific work focuses on three main areas:

a) The economic theory of resource scarcity and structural dynamics with important contributions to basic rent and technical progress. As early as the second half of the 1960s, he used multisectoral, analytical methods to show how the structural changes in technology and technical progress depend both on the changes in the distribution of income in the presence of basic rents, as well as on the reaching of a limit of scarcity for some Resources as well as the combination of the two mentioned elements. Using other analytical methods, he has also studied the impact of investment in education on economic growth.
b) The institutional and applied economies, with particular reference to both European and Italian economies, highlighting two types of development factors: the relationship between institutions, society and the economy on the one hand and the interaction between the various on the other Levels of subsidiarity (vertical and horizontal) as fundamental elements of social liberalism .
c) The history of economic thought, particularly with regard to Italy, beginning with Cesare Beccaria's illuminism in the second half of the 18th century to its recent expansions. A. Quadrio Curzio emphasizes a current of thought that combined scientific-technical progress (that of the "engineer-economists") with cultural progress (of economists who deal with institutions) in a creative and solidary concept of progress.

Reception in science

His scientific work has been edited and recognized in commemorative publications: both in the volume “Economia come scienza sociale” published by Gilberto Antonelli, Mario Maggioni, Giovanni Pegoretti, Fausta Pellizzari, Roberto Scazzieri, and Roberto Zoboli. Teoria, istituzioni, storia. Studi in onore di Alberto Quadrio Curzio ”, which was published by Il Mulino in 2012 with essays by 32 of his colleagues, both in the“ Resources, Production and Structural Dynamics ”published by Mauro L. Baranzini, Claudia Rotondi, Roberto Scazzieri - dedicated to him and Published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press - with essays by Mauro L. Baranzini, Claudia Rotondi, Roberto Scazzieri, Luigi L. Pasinetti, D'Maris Dalton Coffman, Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori, Piercarlo Nicola, Albert E. Steenge, Carlo D 'Adda, Faye Duchin, Heinrich Bortis, Kumaraswamy Vela Velupillai, Michael A. Landesmann, Ivano Cardinale, Lilia Costabile, Constanze Dobler, Harald Hagemann, Alessandro Roncaglia, Stefano Zamagni, Pier Luigi Porta, Moshe Syrquin, Marco Fortis, Sunanda Sen, Andrea Goldstein, Keun Lee, Antonio Andreoni. Finally, in the volume “A compendium of Italian economists at Oxbridge” (Palgrave MacMillan 2016) by Mauro L. Baranzini and Amalia Mirante there is a very useful, evaluative summary of his analyzes in particular.

Scientific publications (selection)

He has published more than 400 academic papers, many of them in English.

The Econlit database contains over 100 entries on articles, essays and titles that were written or edited by Alberto Quadrio Curzio.

  • Rendita e distribuzione in un modello economico plurisettoriale , Giuffrè, Milano, 1967.
  • Investimenti in istruzione e sviluppo economico , Il Mulino, Bologna, 1973.
  • Accumulazione del capitale e rendita , Il Mulino, Bologna, 1975.
  • Rent, income distribution and orders of efficiency and rentability , in L. Pasinetti (Ed.), Essays on the theory of joint production , Macmillan, London, 1980.
  • Un diagramma dell'oro tra demonetizzazione e rimonetizzazione , in: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, pp. 10-11, ottobre-novembre, 1981, pp. 915-940.
  • Sui momenti costitutivi dell'economia politica (with R. Scazzieri), Collana “Protagonisti del pensiero economico”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1983.
  • Technological scarcity: an essay on production and structural change , in M. Baranzini u. R. Scazzieri (Ed.), Foundations of Economics. Structures of inquiry and economic theory , Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 311-338.
  • The exchange production duality and the dynamics of economic knowledge (with R. Scazzieri), in M. Baranzini u. R. Scazzieri (Ed.), Foundations of Economics. Structures of inquiry and economic theory , Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 377-407.
  • The gold problem: economic perspectives, (Editor), Oxford University Press, Oxford 1982; also translated into Italian (1989) and Chinese (1988).
  • Rent, Distribution and Economic Structure: a collection of essays , "Quaderni IDSE", n.1, CNR, Milano, 1990.
  • Structural Rigidities and Dynamic Choice of Technologies (with F. Pellizzari), in: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, Volume 38, No. 6-7, Milano, June-July, 1991, pp. 481-517.
  • On economic science, its tools and economic reality , in M. Baranzini u. GC Harcourt (Ed.), The Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations. Growth, Distribution and Structural Change , St. Martin Press, New York, 1993, pp. 246-271.
  • Il pianeta diviso. Geo-economia dello sviluppo , Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 1994.
  • Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth: Changing Interactions in the World Economy , in: Quadrio Curzio A.-Fortis M.-Zoboli R. (Ed.): Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth , Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1994.
  • Risorse, Tecnologie, Rendita (with F. Pellizzari), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1996.
  • Noi, l'economia e l'Europa , Bologna, Il Mulino, 1996. New edition with afterword, November 1996.
  • Growth and Productive Structure: A medium-Term Perspective (with M. Fortis), in B. Colombo, Paul Demeny u. MF Perutz (Ed.), Resources and Population. Natural, Institutional, and Demographic Dimensions of Development (Resources and Population Research Week Papers, Nov. 17-22, 1991), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, pp. 137–156.
  • Rent , in HD short u. N. Salvadori (Ed.), “Elgar Companion to Classical Economics (ECCE)”, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1998, pp. 289-293.
  • Extensive and Intensive rent (with F.Pellizzari), in HD N. Salvadori (Ed.), “Elgar Companion to Classical Economics (ECCE)”, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1998, pp. 279-283.
  • Rent, Resources, Technologies (with F. Pellizzari), Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1999.
  • Complexity and industrial clusters. Dynamics and models in theory and practice , (Ed. With M. Fortis), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, p. 307, 2002. Italian version: Quadrio Curzio, A., Fortis, M. (Ed.): Complessità e distretti industriali. Dinamiche, modelli, casi reali , Bologna, Il Mulino, n ° 4 collana della Fondazione Edison, 2002.
  • Sussidiarietà e sviluppo. Paradigmi per l'Europa e per l'Italia , Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2002.
  • Technological Scarcity: an Essay on Production and Structural Change , in H. Hagemann, M. Landesmann, R. Scazzieri (Eds.), The Economics of Structural Change , Edward Elgar. Vol. II, 2003, pp. 138-165.
  • Europe and Italy: Economic and Institutional Relationship , in: Risec, Rivista internazionale di Scienze economiche e Commerciali, Issue in Honor of Mario Talamona. Vol. 51, No. 1 March, 2004, pp. 125-132.
  • Rent, Technology, and the Environment (with F. Pellizzari), in R. Arena u. N. Salvadori (Ed.), Money, Credit and the Role of the State, Essay in Honor of Augusto Graziani , Ashgate, Burlington, USA, 2004, pp. 335-348.
  • Research and Technological Innovation: the challenge for a new Europe. Edited with M. Fortis. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 2005.
  • Economisti ed Economia. Per un'Italia europea: paradigmi tra il XVIII e il XX secolo , Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
  • Historical stylizations and monetary theory (with R. Scazzieri), in: R. Scazzieri, A. Sen u. S. Zamagni (Ed.): Markets, Money and Capital. Hicksian Economics for the Twenty-First Century , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 185-203.
  • The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement , (Ed. With M. Fortis), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008.
  • Reflections on the Crisis 2007-2008 (Ed.), In: Economia politica. Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 3/2008, pp. 369-380.
  • I fondi sovrani , with V. Miceli, collana "Farsi un'idea", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.
  • The Greek Crisis and the European Crisis. How to Face Them , in: Economia Politica. Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Volume 27. No. 1, April 2010, pp. 3–8.
  • Sovereign Wealth Funds. A complete guide to state-owned investment funds . With V. Miceli. Harriman House, Petersfield, UK, 2010.
  • La Facoltà di Scienze Politiche della Università Cattolica 1989-2010. Profili istituzionali e internazionali nella interdisciplinarietà , Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2011.
  • Economia oltre la crisi , La Scuola, Brescia, 2012.
  • L 'Europa tra ripresa e squilibri: Eurozona, Germania e Italia (with Marco Fortis), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
  • L'economia reale nel Mezzogiorno (Ed. With Marco Fortis), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
  • Il ruolo strategico del sistema metalmeccanico italiano: dai metalli alla meccatronica (Ed. With Marco Fortis), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
  • Riforme, ripresa, rilancio: Europa e Italia (with Marco Fortis), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2016.
  • Eurobonds for EMU stability and structural growth , in: I. Cardinale, D. Coffman, R. Scazzieri (Eds.): The Political Economy of the Eurozone. Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 395-434.

Web links

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Person links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accademia dei Lincei: Alberto Quadrio-Curzio , Accademia dei Lincei, accessed on January 13, 2019 (it.)
  2. ↑ Reflection Group: The Spiritual and Cultural Dimension of Europe , iwm.at, Newsletter 79, Winter 2003, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (PDF)
  3. ↑ Some Thoughts on Solidarity and Subsidiarity, in The Spiritual and Cultural Dimension, Reflection Group, European Commission, 2005, pp. 39–41. ( PDF ), cordis.europa.eu .
  4. ↑ affrontare la tempesta con serenità e con forza. L'attenzione al sociale e al lavoro nel magistero di Carlo Maria Martini, Centro Ambrosiano, 2014, on www.ibs.it . URL accessed January 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ La Società italiana degli economisti. 50 anni di attività , Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000.
  6. ↑ Executive Committee , on aspeninstitute.it
  7. ↑ Consiglio Generale , on compagniadisanpaolo.it
  8. ↑ Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice: Organization , accessed on January 13, 2019 (it.)
  9. ^ Un secolo di turismo in Valtellina. Viaggio fra storia e attualità , Credito Valtellinese Electa, 2004, p. 394.
  10. ↑ Cotelli Mario, L'epopea della Nazionale di sci 1969-1978 , NewPress edizioni, pp 11-12.
  11. ↑ Quadrio Curzio Alberto - Docente Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, on docenti.unicatt.it . URL, accessed January 13, 2017
  12. ↑ Econlit - American Economic Association , on aeaweb.org .
personal data
SURNAME Quadrio-Curzio, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quadrio Curzio, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian economist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirano , Province of Sondrio , Italy