Luigi Zingales

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Luigi Zingales (2012)

Luigi G. Zingales [luˈiːdʒi dziŋˈɡaːles] (born February 8, 1963 in Padua ) is an Italian - American economist and author .

Education and career

Zingales earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan and obtained a Ph.D. in 1992. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . That same year he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business , where he currently holds the Robert C. McCormack Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Finance.

Act

Zingales is a finance professor and author of two widely acclaimed books: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) is a study of "relational capitalism". In A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012), Zingales "suggests that channeling populist anger can revive the power of competition and reverse the trend toward" nepotism. "He is also a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation . In 2003, Zingales won the Germán Bernácer Prize for the best European economist under forty in the field of macro-finance .

In July 2012, he participated in the Platform No-Brainer Economic project of NPR -Programms Planet Money part. He advocated a six-part plan that included the elimination of all taxes on income as well as the " war on drugs " and instead recommended the introduction of a comprehensive consumption tax (also on previously illegal substances).

In 2012, Zingales was included in the list of the world's 100 most important thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine "because he reminded us of what conservative business should look like". Also in 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Books

  • (with Raghuram Rajan ), Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists , Princeton University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-691-12128-4 .
  • A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity , Basic Books, New York, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luigi Zingales . Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ Virginia Postrel: Economic Scene; Are open markets threatened more by a pro-business or by an antibusiness ideology? . In: The New York Times , December 4, 2003. 
  3. ^ Nonfiction review . In: Publishers Weekly . April 23, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  4. ↑ John Plender: Nostalgia for the land of opportunity . In: The Financial Times , April 15, 2012. 
  5. ^ Committee on Capital Markets Regulation . Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ Bernácer Prize. For promoting economic research in Europe
  7. ↑ http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-policies-economists-love-and-politicians-hate
  8. ↑ http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/18/156928675/episode-387-the-no-brainer-economic-platform
  9. ^ The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers . In: Foreign Policy . November 26, 2012. Archived from the original on November 28, 2012. Retrieved on November 28, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Zingales, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zingales, Luigi G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian economist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua , Italy