Laureato nel 1976. Professore Ordinario dal 1987. Soggiorni di studio in Inghilterra e negli Stati Uniti. Professore visitatore in numerose Università in Europa, Giappone, e Nord America. Coordinatore di numerosi progetti di ricerca dalla fine degli anni 70 e coordinatore di progetti di ricerca COFIN. I suoi principali campi di ricerca sono la teoria della produzione e la teoria della crescita. Suoi contributi relativi alla teoria della produzione si trovano in riviste (tra le altre Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Manchester School, Australian Economic Papers, Journal of Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Bullettin for Social Research, European Journal of Political Economy, Economic Systems Research, Review of Political Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Methodology, History of Political Economy, OEconomia), in volumi collettanei, e in un volume scritto con Heinz D. Kurz per la Cambridge University Press (1995, paperback in 1997) e tradotto in lingua russa (2004). Suoi contributi alla teoria della crescita post-Keynesiana e sul modello di crescita di von Neumann si trovano in riviste (tra le altre Kiklos, Public Finance, Metroeconomica, International Economic Review, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Acta Oeconomica) ed in volumi collettanei. Sulle recenti teorie della crescita endogena ha scritto diversi saggi apparsi in numerosi libri ed in riviste (tra le altre Economic Systems Research, Economic Theory, Decisions in Economics and Finance). Ha anche curato la pubblicazione di più di venti volumi (prevalentemente con le case editrici inglesi Elgar e Routledge) e di numeri speciali di riviste. Negli ultimi anni si è anche occupato di Storia del pensiero economico, con particolare attenzione allo studio dell'Economia Classica e dellevoluzione storica della teoria della Crescita.
Graduated in 1976. Full professor since 1987. He has been Visiting Scholar in England (Cambridge and Manchester) and US (Stanford). Visiting Professor at Paris-X-Nanterre, Denver, Santiago de Compostela, UNAM, Graz, Nice, Meiji. His main research interests involve theory of production and theory of growth. His contributions to theory of production are in journals (among others Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Manchester School, Australian Economic Papers, Journal of Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Bullettin for Social Research, European Journal of Political Economy, Economic Systems Research, Review of Political Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Methodology, History of Political Economy, OEconomia), in edited volumes, and in a volume co-authored also by Heinz D. Kurz for Cambridge University Press (1995, reprinted hardback and paperback in 1997) and translated into Russian (2004). His contributions to the post-Keynesian theory of growth and to the analysis of the von Neumann growth model are to be found in journals (among others Kiklos, Public Finance, Metroeconomica, International Economic Review, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Review of Political Economy, Acta Oeconomica), and in edited volumes. On the recent theories of endogenous growth he has written several papers appeared in several books and journals (among others Economic Systems Research, Economic Theory, Decisions in Economics and Finance). He has also edited more than twenty volumes (mainly with Elgar and Routledge) and special issues of journals, such as Metroeconomica, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economic Ideas, and Review of Political Economy. In recent years he has also contributed to the history of economic thought, particularly in the history of Classical Economics and the historical evolution of growth theory.
