CAPITALISN’T: ECONOMIST LUIGI ZINGALES IN CONVERSATION WITH NICOLA PERSICO
Italian Cultural Institute | 500 N Michigan Avenue | Suite 1450 | Chicago, IL 60611
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Economist Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago), interviewed by Nicola Persico (Northwestern University), will present the new Stigler Center podcast – CAPITALISN’T – an irreverent endeavor in collaboration with Chicago Booth Review that does the serious work of examining the ups and the downs of the capitalist lives we live in America today.
Behold post-industrial American capitalism in all its glory. What’s wrong with our economic system these days? And, maybe of more interest, what’s right with it?
Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. He is also an editorialist for Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian equivalent of the Financial Times. Zingales also serves on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, which has been examining the legislative, regulatory, and legal issues affecting how public companies function. In 2014 he was the President of the American Finance Association.
Professor Zingales developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial system. In July 2015 he became the director of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago which he is refocusing on promoting and diffusing research on regulatory capture and the various distortions that special interest groups impose on capitalism. His research has earned him the 2003 Bernácer Prize for the best young European financial economist. His work has been published in the major economic and finance journals, but he has publications also in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. His book, Saving Capitalism from Capitalists, coauthored with Raghuram G. Rajan, has been acclaimed as “one of the most powerful defenses of the free market ever written” by Bruce Bartlett of National Review Online. Of his latest book, “A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity,” the Financial Times has written “Zingales’ fundamental diagnosis is right.”
Zingales received a bachelor’s degree in economics summa cum laude from Università Bocconi in Italy in 1987 and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1992.
Nicola Persico is currently the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He received his PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in 1996, and spent one year on the faculty at UCLA prior to joining Penn in 1997, where he was granted tenure. He moved to NYU in 2006 as Professor of Economics, and Professor of Law and Society. Dr. Persico joined, Kellogg in 2011. Dr. Persico has received a number of honors and fellowships, including several National Science Foundation Grants, and he was an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow from 2002-2004. He served on the editorial board of the International Economic Review, has been associate editor of Econometrica, of The American Economic Review, and of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and co-editor of Theoretical Economics. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. Dr. Persico has published in the areas of political economy, law and economics, and labor economics.
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