Luigi Paganetto

Interview

•  E-commerce's revolution (Rome, 30/06/99)

Biography

Luigi Paganetto was born in Genoa on 28 December 1940, and graduated in Economics and Commerce. In the mid '70s became Professor and pro-rector at the Istituto Universitario Navale in Naples. In 1982 he was awarded the chair in Political Economy at the "Tor Vergata" University in Rome and, at the same time, at the Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione, also in Rome. A few years later he became lecturer in company economics at the LUISS University. He has also been Visiting Professor at numerous American Universities, including Rutgers University in New Jersey, Carnegie-Mellon University and Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. An expert in the creation of projects, particularly in the sectors of energy, transport, technology transfer and training, he is also involved in monitoring programmes for the Foreign Ministries of Ecuador and the People's Republic of China. From 1985 al 1987 he was the Italian representative at the Budget Ministry of the Political Economy Committee of the OECD. From 1992 to 1995 he was a commissioner on the Administration Committee of the ISPE. In 1994 he became President of the Economic Committee of the CNR (Italian National Research Council) and in 1996, Vice President. He is currently a member of the board of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of Enea and of the board of the Istituto Diplomatico Ministero Affari Esteri. He is economic advisor to the FINMECCANICA group and President of the Renewable Energy Commission of the Energy Authority. Among other positions he currently holds he is President of the Economics and Commerce faculty of "Tor Vergata" University and President of CEIS (Centre for International Economic and Development Research), at Ateneo.

Bibliography

Among his more recent publications:

• L· 1999 Oltre l'Euro. Istituzioni, occupazione e crescita, Il Mulino, Bologna, (a cura di);
• 1999 Lo stato sociale in Italia: quadrare il cerchio, Il Mulino, Bologna, (a cura di);
• 1998 Finance, Research, Education and Growth, McMillan, London, (con E. S. Phelps).
• 1997 Mezzogiorno e Mezzogiorni d'Europa, Il Mulino, Bologna, (a cura di);
• 1982 La teoria generale e i post-keynesiani, Napoli, (a cura di);
• Mario Baldassari, Luigi Paganetto, and Edmund Phelps, eds., International Differences in Growth Rates: Market Globalization and Economic Areas (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994)