MARITAL STATUS
married, with one child.
HOME ADDRESS
Via Pian dei Mantellini, 24/A
53100 Siena (Italy)
tel. -39-577-286018.
OFFICE ADDRESS
Department of Political Economy,
Facoltˆ di Scienze Economiche,
University of Siena,
Piazza S.Franceso 7,
53100 SIENA (Italy)
telex 572459 UNIVSI I
e-mail Vercelli@unisi.it
DATE OF BIRTH
17 April 1945 - (Torino, Italy).
EDUCATION
1969 : laurea in Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of
Torino.
'69-'72: researcher at "Fondazione L. Einaudi", Torino (Italy).
'72-'73: Junior Research Fellowship, St. Antony's College, Oxford, U.K.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
'73-'76: Lecturer in economics and methodology, University of Torino.
'76- : Full professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Banking,
University of Siena (Italy).
'81-'84: Director of the Institute of economics, ibidem.
'85-'88: Chairman of the Interfaculty Committee of the University of Siena
for the scientific relations with foreign Universities and other Research
Institutions.
'88-'90: Member of the Managing Board of the University of Siena.
'88-'93: Director of the Ph.D. Programme in Economics organised by the
Universities of Siena, Firenze and Pisa.
'94-'95: Chairman of the Department of Political Economy of the
University of Siena.
'94-Ô96 Chairman of the Interfaculty Committee of the University of Siena
on postgraduate titles.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
-1979 : C.N.R. scholarship, Churchill College, Cambridge, (U.K.).
-1982 : Fulbright-SSRC AWARD on the co-ordination of economic
policies among industrialized countries, Dept. of Economics, New York
University, N.Y. (U.S.A.).
-1983 : Visiting professor, Department of Economics, University of
Bielefeld (Germany).
-'84-'85 : C.N.R. visiting scholarship, L.S.E., London (U.K.).
-'86-'89 : Visiting Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Banking,
University of La Plata (Argentina).
-'87 : Visiting scholar, Faculty of Economics, Un. of Cambridge (U.K.).
-'88: Visiting professor, Department of Economics, University of Valencia
(Spain).
-'88: Winner of the St. Vincent Prize for the best essay in economics
published by an Italian author in 1987.
-'93: Academic visitor at the University of Campinas and at the University
Federal of Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).
-'91 & '93: Visiting scholar at U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California.
-'95-'96: Visiting fellow of Clare Hall and Visiting scholar of the Faculty
of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
-'96: British Council Senior Visiting fellow in Italian Studies, St Antony's
College, Oxford.
-entry in the Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 30th Edition - 1998-1999,
'Marquis Who's Who', New Providence, New Jersey 07974, U.S.A.
OTHER SCIENTIFIC COMMITMENTS
-'81-'87 : co-opted in the managing board of the Research Group of
C.N.R. on General Economic Theories.
-'82- : editor of two series of books in economics (publisher: La Nuova
Italia Scientifica, Roma).
-'83-'87 : co-opted as expert in the National Research Group of C.N.R. on
"Distribution, technical progress and economic development".
-'83-'92: member of the scientific committee of the review "Quaderni di
Storia dell'economia politica", F.Angeli, Milano.
-'84-Ô91 : member of the Editorial Board of the reviews "Note
Economiche" and "Economic Notes", Monte dei Paschi, Siena.
-'91- : managing editor of the journal 'Economic Notes', Monte dei
Paschi di Siena.
-'87-'94: member of the scientific committee of the CESPE Foundation,
Rome.
-'87- : member of the Editorial Board of the review "Economia Politica",
Il Mulino, Bologna.
-'90-'93: member of the editorial board of the journal 'Italian Economic
Papers' edited by the Italian Economic Association.
-'88-'95 : member of the managing board of editors of the journal
"Structural Change and Economic Dynamics", Oxford University Press.
-'90-'93 : vicepresident and member of the managing board of OIKOS,
International Foundation for Ecological Economics.
-'90- : member of the board of scientific advisors of OIKOS Foundation.
-'92- : member of the Scientific Committee of IRPET, Research and
Planning Institute of Regione Toscana.
SPECIAL FIELDS
Macroeconomics
Methodology of economics
Cycle theory and applications
Comparative economic systems
History of economic analysis
Environmental Economics
PUBLICATIONS
Books
-Teoria della struttura economica capitalistica, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, 1973.
-Inflazione, curva di Phillips e distribuzione degli squilibri economici, Torino, Opis, 1974.
-Teoria de la estructura economica capitalistica, Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico, 1980.
-Dispense di politica economica e finanziaria, Siena, 1982.
-Keynes dopo Lucas. I fondamenti dell'economia, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, 1987.
-Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics. Keynes and Lucas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Books edited
-Introduction and editing (with Marcello Carmagnani), 1978, Economia e storia, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
-Introduction and editing (with R.Goodwin e M. KrŸger), 1984, Nonlinear models of fluctuating growth, Springer, New York.
-Introduction and editing (with M.Di Matteo and R.Goodwin), 1989, Social and Technological Factors in Long Term Fluctuations, New York, Springer.
-Introduction and editing (with M.Di Matteo), 1992, Onde lunghe e teoria economica, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio della Congiuntra, Roma.
-Introduction and editing (with N.Dimitri), 1992, Macroeconomics: A Survey of research Strategies, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
-Introduction and editing (with P.Dasgupta and K.MŠler), 1997, The Economics of Transnational Commons, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
-Introduction and editing (with G.Chichilnisky and J.Heal), 1997, Sustainability: Dynamics and Uncertainty, Dordrecht, Kluwer.
-Introduction and editing (with G.Calcagnini and G.Rodano), 1997, Cicli e trend nell'economia italiana, Istituto Nazional per lo Studio della Congiuntura, Rome
Articles
-La coordinazione assente, in AA.VV., Crisi della teoria economica e crisi del capitalismo, Angeli, Milano, 1976.
-The Phillips dilemma: a new suggested approach, Economic Notes, 1977, n.1.
-Keynesismo, in Vercelli-Carmagnani, eds., 1978.
-Inflazione e deflazione, ibidem.
-Equilibrio e dinamica del sistema economico. Semantica dei linguaggi formalizzati e modello keynesiano, Siena, 1979.
-La crisi della scienza economica: metodo, teoria del valore ed ipotesi istituzionali, Quaderni della Fondazione Feltrinelli, n.7/8, 198O.
-Equilibrio e disequilibrio nella teoria Generale di Keynes: il ruolo dei salari monetari e le difficoltà di un metodo di puro equilibrio, in Graziani-
Jossa-Imbriani (eds.), Studi di economia keynesiana, Liguori, Napoli, 1981.
-Editor's note, in Proceedings of the seminar on non-linear theory of fluctuating growth, Economic Notes, 3, 1983.
-Is instability enough to discredit a model?, ibidem.
-Anti-Lucas, ovvero: la "Nuova Economia Classica" e la rivoluzione keynesiana, in T.Cozzi (ed.), Keynes, Torino, 1983. Republished in Rodano, G., ed., Ascesa e declino della nuova macroeconomia classica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1987.
-Il complesso di Euclide nella filosofia della scienza e nella metodologia economica, in AA.VV., La scienza impropria, Angeli, Milano, 1984.
-Fluctuations and growth: Keynes, Schumpeter, Marx and the structural instability of capitalism, ibidem.
-Money and production in Keynes and Schumpeter: two dichotomies, in Arena, M., Graziani, A. (eds.), Money and production, P.U.F., Paris, 1985.
-Keynes, Schumpeter, Marx and the structural instability of capitalism, Cahiers d'economie politique, 2, 1985.
-Stagflation and the recent revival of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship, in H. Frisch-B. Gahlen (eds.), 1986, Causes of Contemporary Stagnation, Springer, New York.
-La "lunga crisi": interpretazioni e prospettive, in Ente Einaudi (ed.), 1986, Oltre la crisi. Le prospettive di sviluppo dell'economia italiana e il contributo del sistema finanziario, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1986.
-Probabilistic causality in philosophy of science and economics, Siena, 1986. Structural instability and the epistemology of change, Siena, 1986.
-Vizi e virtù della Nuova Macroeconomia, Politica ed Economia, XVIII, 11, nov. 1987.
-La "lunga crisi": interpretazioni e prospettive, in Politica Economica, III, n.3, 1987.
-Razionalità progettuale: uno strumento logico per riconnettere economia e tecnologia, in G.Lunghini, S.Vaccà, eds., Cambiamento tecnologico e teorie dell'impresa, Milano, 1987.
-Causalitˆ probabilistica ed analisi economica: Suppes, Keynes, Granger, in M.C.Galavotti e G.Gambetta (eds.), Epistemologia ed economia, CLUEB, Bologna, 1988.
-Technological flexibility, financial fragility and the recent revival of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship, Recherches Economiques de Louvain, 54 (1), 1988.
-Imprenditorialità ed incertezza: un riesame critico della teoria Schumpeteriana della "transizione" al socialismo, in Jossa (ed.), 1988, Sistemi economici comparati, UTET, Torino.
-Goodwin and the M-K-S System, in G.Ricci and K. Velupillai, eds., 1988, Growth Cycles and Multisectoral Economics: the Goodwin Tradition, Springer, Berlin.
-Uncertainty, Technological Flexibility and Long Term Fluctuations, in Di Matteo, M., Goodwin, R., Vercelli, A., eds., Technological and Social Factors in Long Term Fluctuations, Springer, New York, 1989.
-Probabilistic Causality and Economic Models: Suppes, Keynes and Granger, in Kumaraswamy Velupillai, ed., 1989, Nonlinear and Multisectoral Macrodynamics, Macmillan, London.
-Piccole imprese innovative in Italia: flessibilità tecnologica, contributo all'innovazione e fragilità finanziaria, 1989 (with P.L. Belvisi and P. Carnazza), Economia e Politica Industriale, 63, 45-81.
-Sostenibilità del debito pubblico e sostenibilità dello sviluppo, in Ente per gli Studi Monetari bancari e Finanziari 'luigi Einaudi' (ed.), Aspetti strutturali del debito pubblico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991.
-Probabilistic causality and economic analysis: a survey, in A.Vercelli and N.Dimitri, 1992.
-Le trasformazioni strutturali dell'economia italiana, 1993 (with M. Signorelli), Diritto ed Economia, n.3.
-Structural changes in the post-war Italian economy, in B. Boehm and L.F. Punzo (eds.), Economic Performance: a look at Austria and Italy, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1994.
-Sustainable Growth and Future Generations: time, rationality, and ethics, 1994, in AA.VV., The Development of Science for the Improvement of Human Life, Proceedings of the Second Kyoto-Siena Symposium, Univ. of Kyoto.
-Economia e Ambiente: tempo, razionalità ed etica, in S.Scamuzzi, ed., Costituzioni, razionalitˆ, ambiente, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1994, pp.207-231
-Hard Uncertainty and Environment, 1994, Discussion paper, FEEM, Milan.
-Environmental Option Values: a Survey, 1994, Discussion paper, FEEM, Milan (with M.Basili).
-Environmental Bonds: A Critical Assessment, 1994 (with L.Torsello), Discussion paper, FEEM, Milan.
-Por uma macroeconomia nao reducionista: uma pespectiva de longo prazo, Economia e Sociedade, 1, 3, 1994, pp.3-19.
-Sustainable Development, Rationality and Time, discussion paper, 1995, AFCET, Paris.
-La teoria dello sviluppo sostenibile: tempo, razionalità e generazioni future, 1995, Ragion Pratica, 3, 4, pp.32-45.
-Etica e tempo, in E. Tiezzi, ed., Ecologia e..., Laterza, Bari, 1995, pp.177-204.
-Economia e Fisica, 1995, in A. Boitani and G. Rodano (eds.), Relazioni pericolose. L'avventura dell'economia nella cultura contemporanea, Bari, Laterza, 1995, pp. 173-206.
-Problemi metodologici ed epistemologici delle discipline economiche, in Cozzi, T, Lombardini, S., Salvati, M., 1995, Economia 1970-1990, Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, Torino, pp.565-578.
-From soft uncertainty to hard environmental uncertainty, 1995, in Economie AppliquŽe, XLVIII, 2, pp.251-269.
-Keynes, Schumpeter and beyond: a non-reductionist perspective, in G.C.Harcourt, and P. Riach, eds. 1996, A "Second Edition" of the General Theory, London, Routledge.
-La teoria della preferenza per la liquidità: opzioni interpretative e valori d'opzione, in C.Gnesutta, ed., 1996, Incertezza, Moneta, Aspettative, Equilibrio. Saggi per Fausto Vicarelli, Bologna, Il Mulino.
-Sustainable Development, Rationality, and Time, 1996, in S.Faucheux, M.O'Connor, and J. van der Straten, eds., Sustainable Development: Analysis and Public Policy, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
-Etica e tempo, 1995, in E.Tiezzi (a cura di), Ecologia e..., Bari, Laterza.