I am a professor of economics at Insubria University (Varese), and a research associate of the Baffi Carefin Centre at Bocconi University, Milan, and the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the London School of Economics.

My research focuses on the history and methodology of microeconomics, with special attention to choice and utility theory, experimental and behavioral economics, and measurement theory. I published two books on these topics: Measuring Utility. From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The History and Methodogy of Expected Utility (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

English CV (April 2023).

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

1. Behavioural and Heuristic Models are As-If Models Too — and That’s OK. Economics and Philosophy, 2023.
2. A Review of Nudges: Definitions, Justifications, Effectiveness, with L. Congiu. Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022.
3. On the Recent Philosophy of Decision Theory. Journal of Economic Methodology, 2021.
4. Measuring Utility. From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
5. How Economists Came to Accept Expected Utility Theory: The Case of Samuelson and Savage. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016.
6. Measuring the Economizing Mind in the 1940s and 1950s: The Mosteller–Nogee and Davidson–Suppes–Siegel Experiments to Measure the Utility of Money. History of Political Economy, 2016.
7. Nash Was a First to Axiomatize Expected Utility, with H. Bleichrodt, C. Li, and P.P. Wakker. Theory and Decision, 2016.
8. Over-the-Counter Markets vs. Double Auctions: A Comparative Experimental Study, with G. Attanasi and S. Centorrino. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016.
9. Were Jevons, Menger and Walras Really Cardinalists? History of Political Economy, 2013.
10. How Cardinal Utility Entered Economic Analysis, 1909–1944. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2013.
11. Early Experiments in Consumer Demand Theory: 1930–1970. History of Political Economy, 2007.
12. History of Consumer Demand Theory 1871–1971: A Neo-Kantian Rational Reconstruction. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2007.