Curriculum Vitae

 

Salvatore Rizzello

Born:

July 16 1963, Spongano(LE), Italy

Education:

Ph.D. (History of Economic Thought, University of Florence, Italy)

Laurea (Philosophy, University of Lecce , Italy)

Diploma in Pianoforte (Conservatorio "G. Verdi", Turin, Italy)

 

Present positions:

Professor of Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Piemonte Orientale 

Coordinator of the Centre for Cognitive Economics of the University of Piemonte Orientale, in Alessandria (Italy)

National Secretary of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy  

Member of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought  (Eshet)

Member of the National Board of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences

Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD in Economics of Innovation and Creativity at the University of Turin

Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD "The European Tradition in the History of Economic Thought", University of Macerata

 

Courses:

  • Economics
  • Cognitive and Experimental Economics
  • Political Economy 
  • History of Economic Thought
  • Cultural Economics, (University of Torino, Faculty of Communication Studies)

     

Other academic or professional activities:

- (2003-2004) Local coordinator of the PRIN researchers team "Mathematics and Economics: Austrian School since the 1930s, the controversies of the 1950s and 1970s, the contributions of Simon's institutionalism and of the experimental economics. " 

- (2000- 2002) Associate Professor of History of Economic Thought and Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Piemonte Orientale ,

- (2001- 2004)  National Secretary of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences

- (1998 – 2001) Secretary of the Network Human Reasoning and decision Making of the - European Science Foundation

- (1988 - 2000) Assistant Professor of Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Eastern Piedmont

- (1993-1998) Assistant Professor of Economics, Faculty University of Turin

- (2001) Visiting Professor, CREUSET, Université Jean Monnet Saint–Etienne (from June to July)

- (2000) Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institute, of Jena (from January to July 2000)

- (1990-1991) Visiting Scholar ( London School of Economics)

 

Journals

Assistant Editor of "Mind and Society: A Journal of cognitive and epistemological studies on the economic and social sciences

Referee of Review of Austrian Economics

Referee of Economics Systems

Referee of Rivista di Politica Economica

Referee of  Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Referee of  the Review of Political Economy

Referee of  the Journal of Bioeconomics

Referee of  the Constitutional Political Economy

Referee of the review Institutions and Economic Development

Referee of  the Journal des Economists et des Etudes Humaines

Referee of  The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Referee of  the Publisher Routledge

Referee of  the Publisher Elgar

 

Research interests:

    Cognitive Economics

    History of Economic Thought: Austrian and Institutional Economics, Pittsburgh School

    Decision making,  problem solving and economic of innovation

    Economics of creativity and Cultural Economics

    Experimental Economics

    Theory of institutional and organizational emergence

    Theory of knowledge

    Evolutionary economics


 

A more extended CV can be found here