Alberto Quadrio Curzio

Interview

• "From the multinational corporation to the global corporation" (Milan, 30/09/99)

Biography

Alberto Quadrio Curzio (quadrior@mi.unicat.it) is professor of Political Economy at the Political Science faculty of the Catholic University, where he has been Dean since 1989 and Director of the Research Centro in Economic Analysis since 1976.

He has been Dean of the Faculty of Political Science of Bologna and President of the Italian Society of Economists. He is a life member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere and member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Treccani of May 1999.

He has been a member of the scientific committees of Italian and international and research institutes; he was co-founder and is editor of the theoretical and analytical review " Economia Politica " of Mulino of Bologna.

In 1984 he received the Saint Vincent prize for economics (with R.Scazzieri) for his essay Sui momenti costitutivi dell'economics politica. In 1996 he received the Walter Tobagi Prize for Economics and in 1997 the Premio Internazionale Cortina Ulisse for Noi, l'Economics e l'Europa.

He has taught at various Italian and foreign universities and spoken at numerous conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad. His research interests have centred on three major areas: pure economic theory; the history of economic thought; applied and institutional economics. He is particularly concerned with European economics and wealth and income distribution.

He has author of many scientific publications in Italian and English, including:

• 1999, Rent, Resources, Technologies (con F.Pellizzari), Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
• 1996, Noi l'economia e l'Europa, Il Mulino, Bologna.
• 1996, Risorse, Tecnologia, Rendita (con Pellizzari F.), il Mulino, Bologna.
• 1994, Il Pianeta Diviso. Geo-economia Politica dello Sviluppo, Vita e Pensiero, Milano