Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Office address
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Viale Regina Elena, 295 - palazzina G, 00161 Roma, ph. 06-4925 5320 (Segretary), fax 06 4925 5359.
E-Mail: cristina.marcuzzo@uniroma1.it
Web page: https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/mcm/home
Present Position
Honorary Professor, Sapienza, Università di Roma, 2020-
Universities attended
University of Milan (1967-71); First Degree in Humanities.
University of Milan (1972-74); Diploma in Philosophy of Science.
London School of Economics; Master of Science in Economics, 1977.
Academic positions held
Teaching Assistant, University of Milan, Department of Philosophy, 1972-74.
Researcher, University of Milan, Department of Philosophy, 1974-78.
Researcher, University of Modena, Department of Economics, 1979-81.
Assistant Professor, University of Modena, Department of Economics, 1981-87.
Associate Professor, University of Calabria, Department of Economics, 1987-88.
Associate Professor, University of Udine, Department of Economics, 1988-91.
Associate Professor, University of Modena, Department of Economics, 1991-94.
Associate Professor, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, 1994-99.
Full Professor, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, 2000-2018.
Head of the Department of Economics, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, 2001-2007.
Head of Department Chairs, Science and Technology Division, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, 2001-2007.
Chair of the Parallel National Committee for Tenure Positions in Political Economy, 2018-2020.
Special Lecturer as Highly Qualified Expert, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, 2018-2020.
Teaching experiences
Principles of economics, Microeconomics (intermediate), Macroeconomics (intermediate), Public finance, Monetary economics, International economics, History of economic thought, Sustainable Finance
Fellowships and academic experiences abroad
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, Ca. (Fall 1982- Summer 1983).
Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Economy, University College, London (April 1985).
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Ca. (Fall 1985).
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, U.K. and Member of High Table, King's College, Cambridge, U.K. (September 1986-January 1987).
Academic Visitor, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, London (October 1987- January 1988).
Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (June-August 1989).
Associate Professor, Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, Mass. (June-August 1989).
Associate Professor, Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, Mass. (June-August 1990).
Associate Professor, Loyola University, Rome Center, ( January-May 1993).
Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia (August 2002).
Visiting Professor, Jamia Milla Islamia, New Delhi (Novembre 2007).
Visiting Professor, UNAM, Mexico City (February 2008).
Visiting Professor, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (April 2008).
Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India (Novembre 2009).
Visiting Scholar, Centro de Economia y Finanzas para el Desarrollo de la Argentina, Buenos Aires (Novembre 2010).
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (February 2012).
Visiting Scholar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (November 2013).
Visiting Professor, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (February 2014).
Sheridan Scholar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (September-October 2014-2017)
Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo (September-October 2018).
Member and Chair in Scientific Associations
Member of the Council and then of the Executive Committee of the European Society of the History of Economic Thought, 1996-2002.
Member of the Historical Archives Committee of the Society of Italian Economists (1995-2000).
Member of the Executive Committee of the History of Economics Society, 2006-2009.
Chair of the Spengler Prize Committee for the best book in the History of Economic Thought (2007).
Member of the Board of the Society of Italian Economists, 2007-2010.
President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, 2008-2010.
Member ex officio of Executive Committee of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (2010-2012).
Member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Political Economy (STOREP), 2006-2012
President, of the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Political Economy, (STOREP), 2015-2018
Member, ex officio, of the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Political Economy (STOREP), 2018-2021
Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, 2021
Vice-President of the History of Economics Society, 2023-2025
President of the History of Economics Society, 2025-
Coordination of research projects
Chief consultant to the Educational program in the History of Economic Thought for the Italian Television, 1998-2002.
Head of a national research project on “Conceptual innovations in economics: a contextualized analysis of the contribution made by the Cambridge economists”, 1998-2000.
Local coordinator of a National Research Project on “Individual behaviour and social context in the Cambridge School and the Austrian tradition. Comparative analysis of the period between the two World Wars”, 2001-2003.
Head of a National Research Project on “Convergence and contrast within the Cambridge tradition on method, money, prices and income determination”, 2003-2005.
Head of a University Research Project on “The role of mathematics in economics: the debate within the Cambridge school”, 2003-2005.
Member of the Working Party on “High Education, University and Research” for the Program of the Government Coalition (October-November 2005).
Local coordinator of a National Research Project on “The evaluation of economic research in a historical perspective: comparing methods and arguments”, 2005-2007.
Head of a National Research Project on “The return to Keynes. Speculation and stabilization policies: money and commodities”, 2008-10.
Head of a University Research Project on “Instability in financial markets. Insights from Cambridge economists” (2010).
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with the University oo Wuhan, China (2010).
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with UNAM, Mexico City, 2011.
Head of a University Research Project on “Speculation in primary commodity markets. The 1930s and today” (2012-2013).
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with UNAM, Mexico City, 2012.
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with l’Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India (2014).
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with UNAM, Mexico City, (2015).
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with JNU, New Delhi, India (2016).
Head of a University Research Project on “Taming the Great Depression. Keynes’s investment in the US Stock Market” (2016).
Head of a University Research Project in a Bilateral Agreement with Federal University of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2017).
Italian Co-ordinator of the project of three Annual Conferences on “Fabricating Modern Economics”, Villa Vigoni, Como Lake, Italy, 2018-2020.
Seminars and conferences
Seminars given in the following Universities and Institutions:
In Italy: University of Calabria, University of Florence, University of Milan, University of Modena, University of Parma, University of Pavia, University of Rome III, University of Venezia; University of Torino, University of Trieste, University of Verona, University of Trento, University of Lecce, University of Rimini, University of Genova, University of Catania, University of Siena, Università Bocconi, University of Brescia, Università di Udine, University of Cassino, University of Sassari, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Università Cattolica, Milano, Banca d’Italia, Rome, Università di Urbino.
Abroad: University of California, Los Angeles; Stanford University; Duke University, Durham, USA; New School of Social Research, New York; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard and MIT (joint seminar); Cambridge University, (UK); University College (UK); University of Paris (Nanterre, St. Denis and Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne); Sydney University; University of New South Wales (Sydney); La Trobe University (Melbourne); University of Tasmania (Hobart); Griffith University (Brisbane); J.W. Goethe Universität (Frankfurt); University of Kyoto; Tokyo Metropolitan University; Karl-Franzens Universität (Graz); London School of Economics; Kyushiu University (Fukoka, Japan); Nakasaki University (Japan); Sophia University (Tokyo); Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan); Otaru University (Japan); Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Keio University (Tokyo); Jamia Milla Islamia (Delhi, India); Delhi University (India), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India); Institute for Development Studies (Kolkata, India); Center for Development Studies (Trivandrum, India); Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Flacso (Mexico City); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( Mexico City), University of Wuhan (Cina), City University (London), University of Nice; IGIDR, Mumbai (India); JNIAS, New Delhi (India); Universidad Nacional de. General Sarmiento, Argentina; Centro de Economia y Finanzas para el Desarrollo de la Argentina, Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotà, University of Hyderabad (India); Renmin University, Beijing (Cina); University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai (Cina); University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA); Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis (France); INET Institute, NYC (Usa); Keene State University (Usa); Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil); Goettingen Universität (Germania); Bard College, USA; ); Kingston University (UK); Universitè Lumiere Lyon II (France); University of Mumbai (India); Universidade de Saõ Paulo (Brazil); Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil); Goldsmith College (UK); Universitade de Brasilia (Brazil); Osaka Gakuin University (Japan); Federal University Fluminenses, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); Chuo University (Tokyo), Seijo University, Tokyo; Centre Walras-Pareto, Lausanne University, Switzerland
Papers presented at the following Conferences:
[Abbreviations: ANPEC (Association of Post Graduate Studies in Economics); ASSA (American Social Sciences Association); EAEPE (European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy); ECHE (European Conferences on the History of Economics); AISPE (Italian Society for the History of Economic Thought); HES (History of Economics Society); ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought); HET (History of Economic Thought Society); SIE (Italian Economists Society); STOREP (History of Political Economy Society); HETSA (History of Economic Thought Society of Australia); AFSE (Association Française de Science Economique); ); Inet-YSI (Institute of New Economic Thinking-Young Scholars Initiative); AKB (Keynesian Brazilian Association); EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy); JSHET (Japonese Society of the History of Economic Thought);ISHET (Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought).
ASSA, New York (1985); International Meeting on Monetary Economics, Banking and Insurance, Sophia Antipolis, France (1985); HES, Washington (1992); HES, Philadelphia (1993); Conferences on Monnaie et Financement, Paris (1992, 1993); Società degli Economisti-Fondazione Einaudi, Torino (1993); International Conference on Pluralism in Economics, Bergamo 1994; International Economic History Congress, Milano (1994); ECHE, Rotterdam (1995); International Workshop on Monetary Standards and Exchange Rates, Perugia (1995); Political Economy Conference, Malvern (1995); ECHE, Lisbon (1996); Conference on Money, Markets, Method, Trento (1996); AISPE, Pisa (1996); HES, Vancouver, 1996; Conference on A cinquant'anni da Keynes: quali prospettive per l'economia keynesiana?, Firenze (1996); ASSA, New Orleans, 1997; HES, Charleston (1997); AISPE, Napoli (1997); ESHET, Bologna (1998); Conference on Etica, economia, principi di giustizia, Milano (1998); HES, Monreal (1998); Conference on Sraffa and modern economics, Roma (1998); Conference on Archivio storico degli economisti italiani, Lecce (1998); Conference on Piero Sraffa, 1898-1998, Torino (1998); ASSA, New York (1999); AISPE, Firenze (1999); ESHET, Graz (2000); Conference on Exogeneity and Endogeneity of Money in the History of Economic Thought and Today, Eltville (2000); ESHET, Darmstadt (2001); Conference on The Future of the History of Economics, Duke University (2001); AISPE, Lecce (2001); HET, Manchester (2001); EAEPE Conference, Siena (2001); Conference on A History of Economic Thought Perspective, Pavia-Milan (2001); Conference on Économie et Politique. Les non libéraux pendant l'entre deux-guerres, Grenoble (2001); V. Chick Conference, London (2001); ESHET, Crete (2002); Conference on Cambridge Economists in Theory and Policy, Tokyo (2002); Conference on Piero Sraffa, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma (2003); Workshop on The Science of Complexity: Chimera or Reality?, Arcidosso (2003); Conference on Economics for the Future, Cambridge (2003); Conference on Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination, Trento (2003); Conference on Economic Development in the History of Thought, Lecce (2003); Joan Robinson Centennial Conference, University of Vermont (2003). Conference on Cambridge Economists in Theory and Policy, Tokyo (2003); ESHET, Venezia-Treviso (2004); Workshop on John Hicks: One Hundredth Anniversary, Bologna, (2004); Workshop on Cambridge School of Economics; Welfare Economics and the Welfare State, Hitotsubashi University, USA; Tokyo (2005); STOREP, Siena (2005); ESHET, Stirling (2005); HES, Tacoma, (2005), Summer School on Gender Economics, Siena (2005); Symposium on Keynesian Legacy and Modern Economics, Sophia University (Tokyo), ANPEC, Natal, Brazil (2005); Conference on Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1884-1951, Tokyo (2006); ESHET, Porto (2006), STOREP, Lecce (2006); IEA Conference on Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years, Siena (2006); Conference on Rileggere Keynes, Catania (2006); Conference on The Continuing Relevance of the General Theory, Kansas City (2006); ECHE, Paris (2006); Workshop on Théorie de la valeur et sciences sociales, Paris (2007); Conference on Keynes’s economics and his influence on modern economics, Sophia University, Tokyo (2007); HES Conference, Fairfax, Va (2007); STOREP, Pollenzo (2007), Conference on Economists’ Historical Archives: Economic Theory and Policy in Economists’ Papers Siena (2007); ESHET, Strasbourg (2007); Conference on Keynes’s Influence on Modern Economics, Sophia University, Tokyo (2008); ESHET, Praga (2008); STOREP, Roma (2008), HES Conference, York, Canada (2008); Conference on Gli economisti postkeynesiani di Cambridge e l’Italia, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma 2009; Conference on Global Crisis and Keynes: Present and Past, Sophia University, Tokyo (2009); ESHET, Thessaloniki (2009); STOREP, Firenze (2009); HES, Denver (2009); Convegno Perspectives on Keynesian Economics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel (2009); SIE, Roma (2009); Workshop on Research projects in the history and philosophy of economics, Pisa (2009); Conference on The World Economic Crisis and Keynes, Sophia University, Tokyo (2010); Workshop on Measurement and Evaluation of Academic Research Performance: Policy Implications, University of Minho, Braga (2010), First International Conference In Political Economy, Beyond the Crisis, University of Crete, Rethymno (2010); SIE, Catania (2010); IV Congreso Internacional de Economía y Gestión ECON 2010, Buenos Aires (2010), Workshop on History and Philosophy of economics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel (2010); Conference on Economic Thinking in the Classical Tradition, Graz (2011); ESHET, Istanbul (2011); STOREP, Minervino di Lecce (2011); Conference on The Future of Capitalism, Cambridge, UK (2011); Keynote speaker at HETSA, Melbourne (2011); ESHET-UNAM (2011); Workshop Journée en hommage à Gilles Dostaler, Paris (2011); The 20h Krishna Bharadwaj Lecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2012); Conference on Cambridge Approach to Economics: History and Legacy, Firenze (2012); ESHET, St. Petersburg (2012); Colloque Charles Gide, Nice (2012); World Economic History Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa (2012); International Conference on Structural Economic Dynamics, Tokyo (2012); ESHET Argentina, Buenos Aires 2012; ESHET, London (2013); STOREP, Gaeta (2013); International Conference on Present and Past Globalization: Keynes’s Relevance Today, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (2014); ESHET, Lausanne (2014); Conference on Business cycles and economic growth, Les Treilles, France (2014); STOREP, Bergamo (2014); Review of Political Economy Conference, Malvern, UK (2014); ESHET Brazil 2014, Belo Horizonte (2014); Conference on Imperialism: Old and New, Delhi (2015); Conference on Globalization and Financial Markets Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (2015); ESHET, Roma (2015); 2015 Money and Banking Conference, Central Bank Repubblica Argentina (Buenos Aires); STOREP, Torino (2015); YSI INET Conference, Pisa (2015); ESHET, Parigi (2016); Ricardo’s Monetary Theory and Policy Conference, London (2016); STOREP, Catania (2016); 40 Years of the Cambridge Journal of Economics Conference, Cambridge (2016); International Post-Keynesian Conference, Kansas City (2016); International workshop on Between Economics and Ethics; Welfare, Liberalism, and Macro Economics, Nice (2017); ESHET, Antwerp 2017; STOREP, Piacenza 2017; AFSE (Nice), 2017; Inet-YSI, Trento (2018); ESHET, Madrid (2018); School of Advances Studies in the Reappraisal of the Surplus Approach, Roma (2018); HES, Chicago (2018); STOREP, Genova 2018; International Conference on economic Theory and Policy, Meiji University, Tokyo (2018); AISPE, Bologna (2019), ESHET, Lille (2019); Workshop on Happiness, well-being and (de)growth, Fondazione Einaudi, Torino (2019); YSI INET Conference, Siena (2019); STOREP, Siena (2019); EAEPE Summer School, Roma (2019); AKB, Campinas (Brazil) (2019); School of Keynesian Economics, Campinas (Brazil) (2019); EAEPE, Warsaw (2019); Conference on Minsky at 100, Milano (2019); Conference on Financial Instability, Market Disruptions and Macroeconomics, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma (2019); (Virtual) Poznań Conference on Kalecki and Kaleckian Economics (2020); (Virtual) Monetary and Banking Conference, Central Bank of Argentina, Buenos Aires (2020); (Virtual) International Symposium on Economic Thought, Kocaeli University, Turkey (2020); (Virtual) STOREP, Varese 2021; Lectio Magistralis, Accademia dei Lincei (2021);(Virtual) HES, Utrecht (2021); Conference on 50 years of economics through the lenses of historians of economic thought, Nice (2022); STOREP, Viterbo (2022): HES, Minneapolis (2022);Workshop on Classical Economics, Keynes and Money, Napoli (2022); World Economic History Conference, Paris (2022); Workshop on V. Chick and G.C. Harcourt. Lives Lived Against the Stream, London (2023);ESHET, Liège (2023); STOREP, Bari (2023); HES, Vancouver (2023); Workshop on The Revival of Political economy: from Capital Controversy to the Present, Athens (2023); PKES Workshop in honour of Victoria Chick, London (2024); ESHET, Graz (2024); International Conference in honour of Luigi Pasinetti, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma (2024); STOREP, Milano (2024); HES, Santiago del Chile (2024); JSHET, Hirosaki, Japan (2025); STOREP, Termoli (2025); HES, Richmond (2025); ISHET, Delhi (2025).
Editorial Activities
Referee for the following journals: American Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cahiers D’Economie Politique, Economic Journal, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economic Ideas, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Economia Politica, Moneta e Credito, Research in Economics, Metroeconomica, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, History of Economics Review, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Review of Keynesian Economics; Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Global Society, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Brazilian Keynesian Review, Oeconomia, SN Business&Economics, Ecological Economics, and for the following publishers: Elgar, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, Pickering & Chatto.
Head of an Italian National Research Council research project on Kahn's papers at King's College, Cambridge.
Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cahiers d'Economie Politique, Economic Thought, Ciclos, History of Economic Thought and Policy; Review of Keynesian Economics (until 2020), Italian Economic Journal (until 2019), Economia & Lavoro, Review of Political Economy, Journal of the Keynesian Society of Japan, Advances in Economics Education.
Collaboration to the Sunday Weekly of “Il Sole 24ore”, 2003-2010.
Columnist in www.firstonline.info
Co-editor Series Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
Advisory editor of Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought Series
Other activities and awards
Recipient the award for best article in the History of Economic Thought by HES in 1994.
Chairperson of the selection committee of research grants applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities by young scholars for the Italian Ministry of Education, September-October 2012.
Short-listed for nomination in the National Agency of Evaluation of Research (ANVUR), (2015).
Present affiliations
Corresponding Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2015-2024
Foreign Secretary, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2018-
Member of the Scientific Board of Fondazione Einaudi Foundation, Turin, 2020-2024
Member of the Council of the Guggenheim Foundation, Lausanne, 2020-
Member of the Scientific Council of the Edward Lipiński, Poznań, 2020-
Member of the Consulting Committee of National Agency of Evaluation of Research (ANVUR), 2021-22.
National Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2024-
Member Emeritus of the Scientific Board of Fondazione Einaudi Foundation, Turin, 2024-