Michele Salvati
Professor of political economics at the University of Milan
An editorialist for the Corriere della Sera, Michele Salvati is a full professor in the faculty of political science at the University of Milan. After receiving a degree in law from the University of Pavia (1960) and a degree in economics from Cambridge University (1965), he went on to teach at the universities of Rome, Siena, Modena, Turin, and Milan, and has been a visiting scholar at a variety of universities abroad. He has written a number of books and articles on a variety of issues: labour economics, macroeconomics, the history of economic doctrines, political economics, and the history of Italian economic development (and comparative) after WW2. He collaborates with Reset, Ragioni del Socialismo, Il Mulino and Stato e Mercato. In 1996 he was elected deputy (PDS-Ulivo) and was a member of the Bicameral Commission for Constitutional Reform and the Labour Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. He returned to his University research work in 2001, focused primarily on economic policy.