CURRICULUM VITAE[1]

Giandomenica Becchio

Department of Economics

University of Torino

Via Po 53, 10124 Torino, Italy

+39 0116704973

giandomenica.becchio@unito.it

EDUCATION

2001, Ph. D. in “History of Economic Thought”, University of Florence.

1995 B.A. /M.A. Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Torino, (110 cum laude/110)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current position

2012 Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Torino, School of Economics, Department of Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics.

Previous positions

2008-2012 Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Torino, School of Law, Department of Economics

2004-2007 Research Fellow in Economics, University of Torino, Department of Economics.

2002–2004 Post Doc. in Economics and Statistics, University of Torino, Department of Economics.

1996-2001 Ph. D. student, in “History of Economic Thought”, University of Florence, Faculty of Economics.

1995 - 1996 Research Fellow in History and Economics at Fondazione “Luigi Firpo” - Torino.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

· History of economic theory

· Philosophy of Economics

· Relations between Economics and other Social Sciences

· Social choice theory and group decisions

· Human Development and Gender Inequalities

FELLOWSHIPS

2011 (October-November). Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

2009 -2010 (September-February). Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

1998 Austrian Seminar Summer School Fellowship, New York University.

1994 “Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici” Fellowship, University of Napoli.

VISITING POSITIONS

2011 (Fall Semester) Visiting Researcher, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

2011 (June-August) Visiting Researcher, New School of Social Sciences, New York

2010 (Fall Semester) Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, New York

2009/2010 Visiting Researcher, Duke University, Durham, NC

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2010 Law and Economics, Yeshiva University, NYC.

2009/2011 Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Choice, Statistics, University of Torino, School of Law.

2008–2009 Microeconomics, Polytechnic of Torino, School of Engineering.

2002-2004 Money and Banking, University of Torino, School of Foreign Languages and Literature.

1999-2002 History of Economic Thought, University of Torino, School of Political Sciences.

AWARDS

2010 Outstanding Author Contribution Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010. Title of the paper: “Ethics and Economics in Karl Menger”.

2005 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition Award. Title of the paper The economic theory of Wiener Kreis and Mathematische Kolloquium. The complex role of Karl Menger.

SELECTED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2012 May ESHET conference, St. Petersburg.

2011 November, invited speaker, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

2011 June, invited speaker, Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics, University of Richmond, VA

2011 May ESHET conference, Istanbul.

2010 November, invited speaker, New York University, Department of Economics

2010 June, Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics, University of Richmond, VA

2010 June, HES conference, University of Syracuse, NY

2010 March, ESHET conference, Amsterdam

2010 February, invited speaker, New York University, Department of Economics.

2009 December, invited speaker, Duke University, Department of Economics.

2009 March, II joint conference JSHT and ESHET, Tokyo and Kyoto.

2008 December, invited speaker, New York University, Department of Economics; and Yeshiva University, (New York), Department of Economics

2007 April, invited speaker, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.

2006 April, ESHET, University of Porto.

2005 November, International conference of Southern Economic Association (SEA), Washington DC.

2005 September, invited speaker, International conference on Neurath’s Economics in Context, Vienna Circle Institute, University of Vienna.

2005 June, HES, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.

1996 Sixth International Conference Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

NON ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2009- Assistant Editor of History of Economic Ideas

PUBBLICATIONS

(Giandomenica Becchio)

Books (Editor)

2009 "Unexplored dimensions: Karl Menger on Economics and Philosophy (1923-1938)", Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 12, 2009, Emerald Group Publishing

Limited, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley UK.

2007 Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis Sunti delle lezioni di economia politica, Torino, Celid.

2005 (and R. Marchionatti Eds.) La scuola di Economia di Torino, da Cognetti de Martiis a Luigi Einaudi. Influenze, insegnamenti e rapporti culturali, Quaderni di Storia dell'Università di Torino.

Chapters in books

2011 “A note on the influence of Mach’s psychology in The Sensory Order” in “Hayek in Mind: Hayek's Philosophical Psychology, Leslie Marsh (ed.), Advances in Austrian Economics 15. Emerald Group Publishing: Bingley, UK, pp. 171-180.

2011 Existe-t-il une “doctrine-Menger” qui soit “heterodoxe”? Sur la lecture et l’interpretation des Grundsätze der Volkwirtschaftlehre (seconde version-1923) par Karl Polanyi, (G. Campagnolo Ed.), Existe-t-il une doctrine Menger, Publications de l'Universite de Provence, coll. Episteme, p. 167-186.

2010 (and F.Cassata, R.Marchionatti, F. Mornati), "Quando l'economica italiana non era seconda a nessuno", in Luigi Einaudi nella cultura, nella società e nella politica del Novecento, (R.Marchionatti-P.Soddu, Eds.). Firenze, Olschki, pp.57-99.

2009 The genesis of the half-published Viennese autobiography of Karl Menger (1923-1938): new light on the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium, in "Unexplored dimensions: Karl Menger on Economics and Philosophy (1923-1938)", Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 12, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley UK.

2009 Ethics and Economics in Karl Menger in "Unexplored dimensions: Karl Menger on Economics and Philosophy (1923-1938)", Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 12, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley UK.

2009 (and V. di Giovinazzo) “Liberismo e liberalismo di Edoardo Giretti”, in La scuola di economia di Torino. Co-protagonisti ed epigoni tra economia e politica (R. Marchionatti Ed.), Firenze, Olscki.

2008 “Karl Polanyi” in Il comunismo nella riflessione liberale e democratica del ‘900,

(Franco Sbarberi Ed.), Diabasis.

2007 Il dibattito sul metodo da Ferrara a Pareto, in Manuali e trattati di economia nell'Italia liberale (1848-1922). Canonizzazione, istituzionalizzazione e diffusione internazionale della scienza economica (M. Augello and M. L. Guidi Eds.), Milano, Franco Angeli.

2007 Introduzione alle Lezioni in Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis Sunti delle lezioni di

economia politica, Torino, Celid.

2004 Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis Profilo biografico, in Maestri dell'Ateneo torinese dal Settecento al Novecento, (Renata Allio Ed.), Torino.

2004 (G. Becchio and R. Marchionatti Eds) La scuola di Economia di Torino, da Cognetti de Martiis a Luigi Einaudi, Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, n. 2.

2001 Marx in Italia (and Roberto Marchionatti), in L’influenza degli economisti stranieri in Italia (Piero Barucci and Piero Roggi Eds.), Collana degli economisti italiani, Firenze, Polistampa.

2000 Fondamenti filosofici e teoria economica: sulle differenze tra Keynes e von Hayek in tema di conoscenza, razionalità e aspettative. Una critica a recenti interpretazioni (and Roberto Marchionatti) in Il pensiero di Friedrich von Hayek, (S.Rizzello and G. Clerico Eds.), vol. II, Torino, UTET.

2000 Margaret Cole, in Biografical Dictionary of Women Economist, (M. Dimond, R. Dimond and E. Forget Eds.), Boston - Manchester, Elgar.

2000 Una rivista anglofila in Una rivista all’avanguardia. La “Riforma Sociale” (Corrado Malandrino Ed.), Firenze, Olscki.

2000 Il terzo libro del Capitale e la crisi del marxismo (and R. Marchionatti), in Una rivista all’avanguardia. La “Riforma Sociale” (Corrado Malandrino Ed.), Firenze, Olscki.

1999 Attilio Cabiati fra socialismo cooperativo e marginalismo, in Marginalismo e socialismo nell’Italia liberale (1870 – 1925), Annali Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milano.

Refereed Papers

2013 forthcoming (and R. Marchionatti, F. Mornati, F. Cassata) “When Italian Economics "was second to none". Luigi Einaudi and the Turin School of Economics” European Journal of  History of Economic Thought Vol.20:4.

2010 (and Riccardo Faucci) “Einaudi e Albertini, giornalisti”, in Il pensiero economico italiano, XVIII, 2010, 1 pp. 103-124.

2009 “A historical note of the original meaning of metaeconomics”, in Intellectual Economics, 1, (5) pp. 7-11.

2008 “The Complex Role of Karl Menger in the Viennese Economic Theory" in Review of Austrian Economics, 21: 61-79.

2007 “The early debate of economic calculation in Vienna (1919- 1925). The heterodox point of view: Neurath, Mises and Polanyi”, in Storia del pensiero economico, 2,: 135-147.

2006 “Karl Polanyi fra Marx, Keynes e Hayek: visione e analisi”, Studi e note di economia, 2, pp. 141-154.

2004 “Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis e il Laboratorio di Economia politica (1893 – 1901)”, Il pensiero economico italiano, 2.

1999 “La ricezione del terzo libro del Capitale di Marx nelle pagine della “Riforma

Sociale””, in Il pensiero economico italiano, V, 2.

1997 “Economiste socialiste: Beatrice Webb e Margareth Cole”, in Storia del pensiero

economico, 33-34.

1997 “Gli inediti di Karl Polanyi degli anni Trenta”, Rivista di Filosofia, LXXXVIII, 3.

Invited papers

2004 (and R.Marchionatti) “Renzo Fubini (1904-1944)”, in Annali della Fondazione Einaudi.

2004 “Renzo Fubini, da allievo del Laboratorio a professore di economia e finanza: una

ricostruzione attraverso il carteggio con Luigi Einaudi (1928 – 1943)” in Annali della Fondazione Einaudi.

2002 “La nascita della scuola economica di Torino. Dall’epistolario di Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis (1884-1901)”, in Quaderni di Storia dell’Università di Torino, VII, 6.

Reviews

2009 Gerd Gigerenzer, Rationality for Mortals. How do people cope with uncertainty, in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 70, 1-2, pp. 434-436.

2008 Otto Neurath Economic Writings. Selections 1904-1945, in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, 2, pp. 440-444.