Gianni Vaggi

Full professor of Development Economics

 

Tel.: +39 0382/986222 

Fax: +39 0382/304226 



gianni.vaggi@unipv.it

 



Curriculum vitae

Gianni Vaggi graduated in economics in 1971 at the University of Pavia, where he was member of Collegio Ghislieri. In 1981 he received the Ph.D. in economics of the University of Cambridge.
He has been teaching at the University of Padua, Genova and Varese. In 1997 he has been Overseas Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, Cambridge 1997.
In 1998 he taught in the Graduate Programme in Development Economics at Vanderbilt University USA 1998.
From 1996 to 2011 he has been the Director of CICOPS University Centre for International Co-operation and since 2010 he is Vice rector for International Relations

Since 1997 he is the Director of the European School of Advanced Studies in Co-operation and Development at the University Institute for Advanced Study –IUSS- of Pavia.


Member of several international societies memberships, including the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, the History of Economics Society of the United States, the Royal Economic Society, the GDN-Global Development Network.
He has held seminars at several universities of more than thirty different countries.
In 1988 he won the Saint-Vincent prize for the best book by an italian author with the work "The Economics of Francois Quesnay".

 

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Research interests

Development and international economics. History of economic thought, classical political economy. Labour economics.

Current research projects

Sovereign debt and the notion of sustainability. Finance for development. North-south economic integration, in particular the enlargement of the EU.
The Physiocratic theory of growth and development. Adam Smith's method and theory.

 

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Publications

The Economics of Francois Quesnay, Macmillan, London, 1987.

From the Debt Crisis to Sustainable Development (editor), Macmillan, London, 1993.

"The limits of Physiocracy and Smith's fortune", Economies et Sociétés, Série Oeconomia, n. 1/2, 1995.

"Adam Smith and the Economic Policy of Laissez Faire", in History of Economic Ideas, n. 1/2, 1996.

"La crisi delle 'tigri' in Asia orientale", in Asia Major 1998, edited by Giorgio Borsa, il Mulino, Bologna, 1998.

"At the foot of the Himalayas: India from the "Hindu equilibrium" to an Asian regional power?" (with Paolo Panico), in After the Asian Crises: Perspectives on Global Politics and Economics , edited, by Maria Weber, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1999.

"Europe and its Neighbours", forthcoming Gemdev Paris, 2001.

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