Mario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of political and social sciences in Florence, where he chairs the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Institute of Advanced Studies. He works on economic growth, structural change, inequality, innovation, employment, economic and industrial policy, international political economy.
He is co-chief editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (Elsevier), president of the Società Italiana di Economia, the professional association of Italian economists, and has been a member of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy’s Academy of Sciences. He has been Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, research fellow at Columbia University. He has carried out research in cooperation with the European Commission, OECD, ILO, UNRISD, UNIDO and the Bank of Italy. He is the author of more than 70 articles in international scientific journals, 10 books, more than 50 contributions in edited volumes; he has edited seven books and several journal special issues. His personal webpage is https://works.bepress.com/mario_pianta