Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales is an Italian economist who is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) is a study of "relationship capitalism". In A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012), Zingales "suggests that channeling populist anger can reinvigorate the power of competition and reverse the movement toward a 'crony system'."
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- Born in
- Padua
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBocconi University
- Awards
- 🏆 Germán Bernácer Prize🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences🏆 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Oliver Hart🎓 James M. Poterba
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1963
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