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Pisa, Italy & Strasbourg, France - June 2016

Ph.D., Economics - Sant' Anna Institute for Advanced Studies & Université de Strasbourg, Ecole Doctorale Augustine Cournot (Co-Tutelle)

Dissertation: 'Market Fetishism and Repressive Politics in European Austerity Thinking after WWI (1918-1925)'

Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi, Nicole Giocoli, Claude Diebolt

Pavia, Italy - 2013

Five Years Excellence Diploma - Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS), with honors

Thesis: 'Keynes on Austerity'

Pavia, Italy - 2012

M.A., Philosophy - University of Pavia, 110/110 with honors

Thesis: 'The Marx of Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Capital'

Pavia, Italy - 2010

B.A., Philosophy - University of Pavia, 110/110 with honors

Thesis: 'Wittgenstein and Sraffa - A Methodological Comparison'

Cambridge, UK - 2009/2010

B.A., Philosophy, Part II - Cambridge University, Trinity College

New York, USA - 2021/2022

Outstanding Achievements in Social Justice Teaching Award

Nominee

Princeton, USA - 2018/2019

Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Social Sciences

Member and Fellow

New York, USA - 2020/2021 & 2014/2015

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar, European Institute

Sponsors: Adam Tooze, Victoria De Grazia

New York, USA - 2022/2023, 2020/2021 & 2014/2015

Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies

Faculty Fellow

June 2015

History of Economics Society

Young Scholar Award

May 2015

European Society for the History of Economic Thought

Young Scholar Award

2012/2015

Sant'Anna Institute for Advanced Studies

Scholarship for PhD Studies

Books:

• The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, The University of Chicago Press (November 2022).

• Forthcoming: Italian Translation, Operazione Austerità: come gli economisti hanno aperto la strada al fascismo, Giulio Einaudi Publisher (November 2022).

• Under Contract with The University of Chicago Press: The Golden Hour: Booming Markets, False Narratives, and the Decades That Made Modern Society (2025).

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes:

• “Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I,” in Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, And Respond to Critical Situations, Didier Fasasin and Axel Honneth (eds), Columbia University Press (2022), pp. 11-31.

• “Early Women Economists at Columbia University Contributions in the Struggle for Labor Protection in the Lochner Era,” in Routledge Handbook of the Women's History of Economic Thought, Kirsten K. Madden and Robert W. Dimand (eds), Routledge (2019), pp. 272-290.

• “Per una Nuova Politica Transnazionale,” in Per cosa lottare: Le frontiere del progressivismo, Enrico Biale and Corrado Fumagalli (eds), Fondazione Feltrinelli Publisher (2019), pp. 107-130, co-authored with Niccoló Cuppini.

Articles and Book Reviews in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

• “Why Austerity Persists?” Book Review of book by Jon Shefner and Cory Blad, in Economic Sociology, Vol. 21: 3 (2020), pp. 33-35.

• “Hawtrey, Austerity and the ‘Treasury View,’ 1918-25,” The Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET), Vol. 40: 4 (2018), pp. 471-492.

• “Keynesianism, Technocracy and Class Struggle,” Book Review of In the Long Run We are All Dead by Geoff Mann in Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 11: 5 (2018), pp. 476-479. 2

• “Going up and down: rethinking the empirics of growth in the developing and newly industrialized world,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics Vol. 28: 4 (2018), pp. 749–784, co-authored with Francesco Lamperti.

• “Treasury View and Post-WWI British Austerity: Basil Blackett, Otto Niemeyer, and Ralph Hawtrey,” Cambridge Journal of Economics (CJE), Vol. 42: 4 (2018), pp. 1123-1144.

• “Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the Early Years of the Fascist Government 1922-1925,” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (EJHET), Vol. 24: 5 (2017), pp. 998-1026.

• “The Guardians of Capitalism. International Consensus and Fascist Technocratic Implementation of Austerity,” Journal of Law and Society (JLS), Vol. 4:1 (2017), pp. 10-31.

• “Il Paradosso della Concorrenza,” Book review of Il Paradosso della Concorrenza by Luigi Einaudi in History of Economic Ideas (HEI), Vol. 25:1 (2017).

• “The Conceptual Roots of Contemporary Austerity Doctrine: A New Perspective on the ‘British Treasury View’,” New School Economic Review (NSER), Vol. 8. (2016), pp. 115-146.

• “Supermax,” Appendix in Le Prigioni in America by E. Grande, Laterza Publisher (2007), pp. 151-157.

Op-Eds, Interviews and Non-Academic Publications:

• “Austerity and Black America,” forthcoming podcast for The Last Negroes at Harvard, November 14, 2022.

• “‘Work More, Consume Less’: How Austerity Coerces,” Public Books, November 2022 (Forthcoming).

• “The Rise of Austerity and the Global South” Podcast episode India & Global Left, October 19, 2022.

• “How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism,” New Economic Thinking Interviews, INET, recorded in April 2022, October 12, 2022.

• “Don’t be fooled: policy makers are also invoking austerity by other names,” The Guardian, US, 8 October 2022.

• “Austerità e Tecnocrazia,” Jacobin Italia, Ventidue, Special Issue on 100 years from Mussolini’s rise to power, September 2022.

• “The Political Rationale to Engineering a Recession: Monetary Austerity and Class Wars,” Monetary Policy Institute Blog, July 13, 2022, co-authored with Aditya Singh.

• “The Federal Reserve says its remedies for inflation ‘will cause pain’, but to whom?” The Guardian, US Edition, 18 June 2022.

• “Austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity,” The Guardian, US Edition, 2 September 2019, co-authored with Sam Salour.

Academic Working Papers:

• “Philosophy of Praxis as Critique to Pure Economics: A study in Methodology and Class Struggle,” NSSR Economics Department Working Paper Series, submitted to Historical Materialism.

• “Marx's Approach to Economics: A Claim for Subjective Praxis,” NSSR Economics Department Working Paper Series, submitted to Journal of Economic Methodology.

Select Invited Talks:

• Book Presentation “The Capital Order,” European University Institute, Florence, November 30, 2022.

• Book Presentation “Austerity and the Economy that Enables It,” Trinity College, Cambridge University, November 17, 2022.

• Book Presentation “The Capital Order,” University of Oxford, November 16, 2022.

• “Geopolitics and the Global Economy,” Bristol Ideas: Festival of Economics, Bristol, November 15, 2022.

• Book Presentation “The Capital Order,” London School of Economics, November 14, 2022.

• Book Presentation “The Capital Order,” SOAS, November 9, 2022.

• Book Presentation “The Capital Order,” Economics Seminar, University of California Berkeley, August 28, 2022.

• “Austerity, Automation, & the History and Future of Labor,” History and Political Economy Project Workshop, John Hopkins University, April 30, 2022.

• Book Presentation “The Capital Order,” International History Workshop, Columbia University, April 20, 2022.

• “Capital Order: Class Wars and the Rise of Austerity,” Bowdoin College, October 2021.

• “Austerity & Corporativism: Rupture or Continuity?” The Turning Point: Fascist Italy 1925-1927, Symposium, Bank of Italy, May 2021 (online).

• “Why Austerity Persists,” Author Meets Critic Colloquium, Critical Perspectives in Democratic Anti-Colonialism Project, New School for Social Research, April 2021 (online).

• “Fascist Political Economy,” Workshop on The Italian Economy Under Fascism, Pembroke College, Oxford University, October 2019.

• “Alternative Futures for Capitalism,” Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Young Scholar Initiate (YSI) Workshop, INET New York, June 2019.

• “1919 Britain: Capitalism Contested,” Kandersteg Seminar, Revisiting 1919: A Hundred-Year-Old Postwar Moment, Remarque Institute (NYU), Switzerland, April 2019.

• “Capitalism and Crisis: On the Origins and Rationality of Austerity,” Social Science Seminar Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 2019.

• “The Misery of Economism: Austerity Past and Present,” Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University, October 2018.

• “A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx,” Panel with Adam Tooze and Sven-Eric Liedman, Verso Event, Brooklyn, May 2018.

• “In The Long Run We are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution,” Panel with Geoff Mann, Verso Event co-sponsored with the Heilbroner Center, New School for Social Research, April 2018.

• “Economic Crisis and Technocratic Repression,” Episodes from the History of Sovereign Debt, Symposium, New York University, February 2018.

• “DIEM 2015 in Europe: A Conversation with Yanis Varoufakis,” International Conference on Democratic Reform in Europe, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, November 2017.

• “Marx’s Approach to Economics: A Claim for Subjective Praxis,” Marx, Art, Politics. Contemporary Reflections, Symposium, New School for Social Research, April 2017.

• “Austerity and Technocracy after WWI: The Cases of Great Britain and Italy,” Reviving Economic History and Reframing the Economic Problems of our Day, Dean Symposium, New School for Social Research, December 2016.

• “The Guardians of Capitalism,” Law and Austerity Workshop, University of Amsterdam, June 2016.

• “The Economic Culture of British Technocrats 1918-1925,” Intellectual and Cultural History Workshop, Columbia University, December 2015.

• “Sketches for the History of Austerity,” International Conference on the Eurozone and the Americas, Austerity, Debt and Crisis, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, November 2015.

• “The Eye of the Treasury View: Ralph Hawtrey and British Austerity,” Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, October 2015.

• “Ralph Hawtrey and the British Treasury View,” Economic History Lab Seminar, University of California Berkeley, September 2015.

• “Austerity and Repressive Politics,” Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Economics (HPPE) Summer Workshop, London School of Economics, May 2015.

• “The Guardians of Capitalism,” Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Economics (HPPE), London School of Economics, April 2015.

• “Fascism and Economic policy 1919-1925,” Workshop on Economic History of the Inter-War Period, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Young Scholar Initiative (YSI), New York, October 2014.

Select Conference Presentations:

• “The Capital Order,” Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, London, November 2022.

• “Capitalism, Crisis, Austerity: Britain and Italy after WWI,” Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAPHE) 7 th annual conference, Curitiba, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), November 2019.

• “Gramsci and Economics,” History of Economic Society (HES) annual conference, University of Chicago, June 2018.

• “Marx’s Approach to Economics: A Claim for Subjective Praxis,” Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAPHE) 6 th annual conference, University of Bogotá, November 2017.

• “Marx's Approach to Economics: A Claim for Subjective Praxis,” History of Economic Society (HES) annual conference, University of Toronto, June 2017.

• “Early Women Economists at Columbia University Contributions in the Struggle for Labor Protection in the Lochner Era,” Eastern Economic Association annual conference, URPE session, New York, February 2017.

• “Early Women Economists at Columbia University," History of Economic Society (HES) annual conference, Duke University, Durham, June 2016.

• “Treasury Expertise and post WWI Economic Policy: Basil Blackett, Otto Niemeyer, and Ralph Hawtrey,” European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) annual conference, Université la Sorbonne, Paris, May 2016.

• “The Eye of the Treasury View: Ralph Hawtrey and British Austerity (1918-1928),” Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAPHE) 5 th annual conference, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, November 2015.

• “Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the Early Years of the Fascist Government 1922-1925,” European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) annual conference, University of Roma Tre, Rome, May 2015.

• “The Guardians of Capitalism. International Consensus and Fascist Technocratic Implementation of Austerity,” History of Economic Society (HES) annual conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, June 2015.

• “Austerity and Repressive Politics, the Role of the Italian Economists after World War I,” Associazione Italiana per la Storia del Pensiero Economico (AISPE) annual conference, University of Pisa, December 2014.

Teaching:

NSSR, The New School, Graduate courses:

• Methodology of Economics Fall: 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016

• Historical Foundations of Political Economy II Spring: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017

Lang College, The New School, Undergraduate courses:

• History of Economic Thought Fall: 2021, 2017, 2016; Spring 2020

• Introduction to Political Economy Spring: 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017; Fall 2019

International University College (IUC), Turin, Italy:

• Political Economy Winter: 2022

• The Political Economy of Austerity Summer: 2021, 2022

Sant’Anna Institute for Advanced Studies (SSSUP) Summer School, Pisa, Italy

• Efficiency and the Market July 2015

INET Young Scholar Initiative (YSI)

• Lectures on Antonio Gramsci and Economics Spring 2019

• Seminar Series on Karl Marx 2014-2015

Mentorship of Ph.D. thesis and Master’s thesis Since Fall 2016

Ph. D. Dissertations:

• Supervisor, Aditya Singh, “Title TBD,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2021-Present.

• Supervisor, Marc Triller, “Title TBD,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2021-Present.

• Supervisor, Cesar Castillo Garcia, “Title TBD,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2020-Present (also supervisor of 2020 MA thesis).

• Supervisor, Ricardo Hernandez, “Title TBD,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2020-Present (also supervisor of 2020 MA thesis).

• Supervisor, Bernadette Chang, “The Economics of Intersectionality,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2019-Present.

• Supervisor, Kalpa Maduranga Rajapaksha, “Papers on the Agrarian Question, Marx’s Subsumption and Agrarian Changes in Sri Lanka,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2018-Present.

• Supervisor, Mike Isaacson, “The Political Economy of Fascism,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2017-2021.

• Committee Member, Jay Pan, “How Capital, the Left and the State made Oligopolistic Capitalism in America, 1940-1988,” Columbia University, New York, 2020-present.

• Committee Member, Daniyal Khan, “Essays on the Theory and History of Central Banking Evolution,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2020-2022.

• Committee Member, Brandt Weathers, “Essays on Fossil Fuel Divestment, Green Reinvestment, and Climate Risk,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2020.

• Committee Member, Katherine Moos, “Essays on the Theory and Political Economy of Economic Policy,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2016-2017.

• Dean’s Representative, Tyler Boersen, “Greek Liquidity: Housing, Credit, and the Globalization of Insolvency,” New School for Social Research, New York, 2017.

Service to the Profession:

• Founder and organizer of Lecture Series in Advanced Political Economy, partnership between NSSR and SOAS, since 2022

• Founder and co-organizer of the Permanent Seminar on Socialist Economic Systems, sponsored by SISE (Società Italiana degli Storici Economici), since 2022.

• Member of the Conference Planning Committee for the History of Economics Society (HES), organizer of the 2019 conference held at Columbia University.

• Member of European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), since 2015.

• Member of History of Economics Society (HES), since 2015.

• Member of Asociación Latino-Americana de Historia del Pensamiento Económico (ALAHPE), since 2015.

• Member of Associazione Italiana per la Storia della Economia Politica (STOREP), since 2018.

• Institute for New Economic Thinking - Young Scholars Initiative:

  • Chief Organizer for INET-YSI Economic History Conference “The Nation State and the World Economy Between Two Eras of Globalization 1913-1975,” Sant’Anna Institute for Advanced Studies, Pisa, July 14-16, 2015.

  • Coordinator for the INET-YSI annual conference, OECD Paris, April 8-11, 2015.

  • Organizer of the INET-YSI Economic History Workshop on the Inter-War Period, INET, New York, January 24-25, 2015.

  • Organizer of the INET-YSI Economic History Workshop on the Interwar Years, INET, New York, U.S.A, October 24-25, 2014.

Journal Reviewer:

• The University of Chicago Press (since 2021)

• Review of International Political Economy (since 2022)

• New Political Economy Journal (since 2021)

• Science and Society (since 2021)

• Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (since 2017)

• Journal of Economic Issues (since 2017)

• Journal of The History of Economic Thought (since 2017)

• European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (since 2017)

• History of Economic Ideas (since 2017)

Service to the University:

• Representative on the University Faculty Senate (2022-2023)

• Founding member of Critical Perspectives in Democratic Anti-Colonialism Center and Graduate Minor (Spring 2020) 8

• Member of the organizing committee for the NSSR Economics Department Seminar Series (since 2017, main organizer since 2020)

• Member of the NSSR Economics Department Admissions Committee (since 2019) o Member of the Academic Curriculum Committee for Lang college (since 2019)

• Member of the Excellence Committee for Lang College (2017-2018)