Stefano Zamagni is Senior Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe; Professor of Economics and former dean of the Economics Faculty, University of Bologna, and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican City. Presidente Onorario, Fondazione Italia per il Dono (Milano); member of the board of LUMSA Università, Rome; member of the scientific board of the doctoral program in economics at the Catholic University of Argentina; former member of the scientific committee, Ente L. Einaudi of the Bank of Italy; co-editor of Economia Politica, a quarterly review published by Il Mulino; member of the editorial boards of Sociologia, Rome, Migration Studies, Rome, and Diritti umani e diritto internazionale, Napoli; fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences; fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna and Milan; member of the academic committee of the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Center at Harvard University; former president of Agenzia per le ONLUS (Italian Charity Commission); Member of the Advisory Board, European Spes Institute, Leuven; Member of the Board, Luigi Sturzo Institute, Rome; President, Nova Spes International Foundation, Rome; Member, Italian Council of the Third Sector, Rome; Member, Scientific Committee, Pontifical Council of Culture, Vatican City; Doctor honoris causa from Charles University, Prague (2012); "Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez" Medal, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago Chile (2011); 3rd annual Premio Sentinella del Creato (2011); Honorary Degree in economics, The University of Cordoba, Argentina (2014), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid (2010), and Catholic University Argentina, Buenos Aires; 18th annual Premio Internazionale per il Dialogo Fra I Popoli e Le Loro Culture; Laurea, economics, Catholic University of Milan. Zamagni is author of numerous books and journal articles on welfare economics, theory of consumer behavior, social choice theory, economic epistemology, ethics, history of economic thought and civil economy. Zamagni is author of numerous books and journal articles on welfare economics, theory of consumer behavior, social choice theory, economic epistemology, ethics, history of economic thought and civil economy.
- Prendersi cura della democrazia: Il ritorno dell'economia civile, ECRA (2023)
- Lezioni di Storia del Pensiero Economico, with L. Bruni and P. Sartori, Città Nuova (2021)
- Changing Media in a Changing World, with D.E. Viganò and M. Sánchez Sorondo (editors), Libreria Editrice Vaticana (2022)
- Prosperità inclusiva: Saggi di economia civile, Studium (2021)
- Disuguali: Politica, Economia e Comunità: un Nuovo Sguardo sull'Ingiustizia Sociale, Aboca Edizioni (2020)
- Dignity and the future of Work in the age of the 4th Industrial Revolution, editor, Pontifical Academies of Social Sciences (2020)
- Responsabili: Come Civilizzare il Mercato, Il Mulino (2019)
- Banche di Comunità: Cambiare Senza Tradire, Ecra (2018)
- Economia è Cooperazione (Saggi in Memoria di Pier Luigi Porta), with M. Dorigatti (editors), Edizioni Città Nuova (2017)
- Civil Economy. Another Idea of the Market, with L. Bruni, Agenda Publications (2016)
- Prudenza, Il Mulino (2015)
- L'Economia Civile, with L. Bruni, Il Mulino (2015)
- Mercato, Rosemberg & Sellier (2014)
- Microeconomia: un Testo di Economia Civile, with L. Becchetti and L. Bruni, Il Mulino (2014)
- Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise, with L. Bruni (editors), Edward Elgar Publishing (2013)
- Impresa Responsabile e Mercato Civile, Il Mulino (2013)
- Famiglia e Lavoro: Opposizione o Armonia?, 2nd ed., S. Zamagni and V. Zamagni, Edizioni San Paolo (2012)
- Per un'economia a misura di persona, Edizioni Città Nuova (2012)
- Libro Bianco sul Terzo Settore, editor, Il Mulino, 2011
- Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization, V. Zamagni and S. Zamagni, Edward Elgar Publishing (2010)
- Avarizia: La Passione dell'Avere, Il Mulino (2009)
- Dizionario di Economia Civile, with L. Bruni (editors), Edizioni Città Nuova (2009)
- Markets, Money and Capital: Hicksian Economics for the Twenty First Century, with R. Scazzieri and A. Sen (editors), Cambridge University Press (2009)
- The Lesson and Warning of a Crisis Foretold: A Political Economy Approach, International Review of Economics, 56 (2009).
- La Cooperazione, S. Zamagni and V. Zamagni, Il Mulino (2008)
- Civil Economy: Efficiency, Equity, Public Happiness, with L. Bruni, Peter Lang International (2007)
- L'Economia del Bene Comune, Edizioni Città Nuova (2007)
- Verso una Nuova Teoria Economica della Cooperazione, with E. Mazzoli (editors), Il Mulino (2005)
- An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, with E. Screpanti, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press (2005)
- Istituzioni di Economia Politica: un Testo Europeo, with T. Cozzi, Il Mulino (2003)
The course analyzes both the role of the government in the economy, including its manifestation as a Welfare State, and the role played in the public sphere by civil society organizations. The first part deals with the theory of both market failures and government failures, the theory of collective economic action, the economic theory of democracy, the analysis of tax systems. The second part of the course uses the concepts developed in the first part to analyze specific governmental institutions, expenditure programs and taxes within a comparative international perspective. Major topics include health care, social insurance, redistribution programs, education, the politics of institutional choice, government decentralization (federalism), political capitalism, the digital revolution and algorethics.