Mario Pianta is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, Society and Politics, Via Saffi 42, 61029 Urbino (PU). He is Member of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre”, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italian Academy of Sciences). He has been Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, Visiting scholar at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, Chercheur invité at CRPS, Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne and Research fellow at Columbia University. His works are organised in the following subjects: The current crisis and economic policies; Economic growth and innovation; Inequality, distribution and innovation; Technology and employment; Analysis of innovation; International political economy, globalisation and social activism. A selection of articles by Mario Pianta for the Italian media can be found at: http://www.sbilanciamoci.info/Chi-scrive/Mario-Pianta-345 His new book is "Nove su dieci. Perché stiamo (quasi) tutti peggio di 10 anni fa", Laterza, 2012, 176 pp., 12 euro, www.novesudieci.org
1. The current crisis and economic policies
European alternatives: trajectories of mobilisation responding to Europe’s crisis (with Paolo Gerbaudo) (2012)
Industrial and innovation policies in the European Union (with Matteo Lucchese), Workers, Citizens, Governance: Socio-Cultural Innovation at Work (2012)
Nine out of ten. The "losers" in Italy's long crisis. Changes in income distribution, effects of policies, rise in inequality, Working Papers, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics (2012)
2. Economic growth and innovation
Engines of growth. Innovation and productivity in industry groups (with Francesco Bogliacino), Structural change and economic dynamics (2011)
Innovation and demand in industry dynamics (with Francesco Bogliacino), Working Papers from University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics (2011)
3. Inequality, distribution and innovation
Nine out of ten. The "losers" in Italy's long crisis. Changes in income distribution, effects of policies, rise in inequality, Working Papers, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics (2012)
Explaining inequality in today’s capitalism (with Maurizio Franzini), Working Papers, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics (2011)
Forces of inequality? The impact of technology and globalisation (with Leopoldo Nascia), Intereconomics (2009)
Guest Editors' Introduction for Special Issue on "Inequality: mechanisms and effects" (with Maurizio Franzini), International Review of Applied Economics (2009)
Innovation and wage polarisation in Europe (with Elisabetta Croci Angelini and Francesco Farina), International Review of Applied Economics (2009)
4. Technology and employment
Innovation and employment in economic cycles (with Matteo Lucchese), Working Papers, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics (2012)
Innovation and employment: a reinvestigation using revised Pavitt classes (with Francesco Bogliacino), Research Policy (2010)
Job creation in business services: Innovation, Demand, Polarisation (with Francesco Bogliacino and Matteo Lucchese) (2010)
Technology and jobs (with Valeria Mastrostefano), Economics of Innovation and New Technologies (2009)
5. Analysis of innovation
Firm size and innovation in European manufacturing (with Andrea Vaona), Small Business Economics (2008)
New process and new products in Europe and Italy (with Francesco Crespi), Rivista di Politica Economica (2008)
Demand and innovation in European industries (with Francesco Crespi), Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics (2007)
Innovazione. Imprese, industrie, economie (a cura di) (with Jan Fagerberg, David Mowery, and Richard Nelson) (2007)
Le dinamiche dell'innovazione. Introduzione all'edizione italiana (with Franco Malerba and Antonello Zanfei), Innovazione. Imprese, industrie, economie (2007)
6. International political economy, globalisation and social activism
Crossing borders. Transnational activism in European social movements (with Raffaele Marchetti and Duccio Zola), Democracy in movements. Conceptions and practices of democracy in contemporary social movements (2009)
La montée en puissance des mouvements globaux 1970-2005 (with Duccio Zola), Généalogie des mouvements altermondialistes en Europe (2008)