Roberto Scazzieri - Biography#

Roberto Scazzieri is Alma Mater Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Bologna and a National Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (the Italian National Academy) (2023-), of which he was a Corresponding Fellow since 2013. He was also Adjunct Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre ‘Beniamino Segre’, at the Lincei Academy, in the period 2012-2015. He is a Senior Member of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is a Senior Fellow of the Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna; a Corresponding Fellow of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History, Cambridge and a Member of Babbage Policy Network, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

His primary research interests are the economic theory of production and structural economic dynamics. He investigated foundational aspects of production theory focusing on patterns of connectivity and pioneering the development of production theory based on the structure of relationships between tasks and elementary processes. This theoretical framework is applied to the relationships between structure and scale of production, and to the investigation of the relationship between structural specification and economic dynamics.

Roberto Scazzieri started already building an international network of scholars in his field during his postgraduate research at Oxford and Cambridge in the 1970s and 1980s. This network was further strengthened throughout his subsequent career and conntributed to high impact research outputs.

Important testimonials to his international activity are his role as Founding Scientific Director of the Bologna Institute of Advanced Studies, as initiator of the Bologna-Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship scheme, and as Founding Editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (Elsevier), of which he has been a Managing Editor since 1990.

He has a long list of international publications in his field of expertise, including articles, special issues, and many volumes with academic publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge and Edward Elgar.

His scholarly achievement was already recognized early in his career with inclusion of his scientific biography in vol. I of A. Heertje (ed.), The Makers of Modern Economics, Harverster Wheatsheaf, 1993.