Luigi Zingales

Luigi Zingales ( born February 8, 1963 in Padua, Italy) is Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, and author of two widely acclaimed books: 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), sets Zingales " suggests that the channeling populist rage revive the power of competition and the evolution towards a " can reverse ".

Life and work

Zingales received a bachelor 's degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and a doctorate in 1992 for Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. In the same year he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he currently holds the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance. He is also a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.

Zingales 2003 won the Prize for Best Germán Bernácer European economist under forty in the work area "macro - finance".

In July 2012, the No-Brainer Economic Platform project he took part of the NPR program Planet Money. He advocated a six- part plan, which included the elimination of all taxes on income and the "war on drugs" and instead recommended the introduction of a comprehensive Verbrauschssteuer ( also previously illegal substances).

Zingales 2012 was received by the Foreign Policy magazine in the list of the hundred most important thinkers, " because he reminded us have to look like conservative economies ".

• ( with Raghuram Rajan ), Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, Princeton University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-691-12128-4.