Carlo Alberto Lecture

The Carlo Alberto Lecture is delivered in June by the recipient of the Carlo Alberto Medal, awarded to a young Italian economist (resident in Italy or abroad) under the age of 40 for his/her outstanding research contributions to the field of economics (broadly defined).

2007
Nicola Persico (New York University), Law and Economics of Discrimination

2008
Enrico Moretti  (UC, Berkeley), Real Wage Inequality

Vilfredo Pareto Lectures
in Economics and Social Sciences

The Vilfredo Pareto Lectures in Economics and Social Sciences are delivered by distinguished scholars to honour Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), an alumnus of the University and of the Politecnico of Torino and a towering figure in the social sciences, who gave fundamental contributions in Economics, Sociology, and Political Science.

2007
Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Political Economy of Growth
Jean Tirole (IDEI, Toulouse), Laws and Norms

2008
Michael Kremer (Harvard University), Education, Health, and Development
Thomas J. Sargent (New York University), Macroeconomic Uncertainty

Chronological bibliography of the writings of Vilfredo Pareto (prepared by Fiorenzo Mornati and posted with kind permission from Droz, Geneve).

The depth and unsurpassed broadness of Pareto’s contributions are illustrated in the following historical sources, which also give some biographical information:

• Luigi Amoroso, “Vilfredo Pareto”, Econometrica 6 (1938): 1-21.
• Manon Michels Einaudi, “Pareto as I Knew Him”, Atlantic Monthly (1935): 336-46.
• Talcott Parsons, “Review of The Mind and Society”, American Sociological Review 1 (1936): 139-48.
• Umberto Ricci, “Pareto and Pure Economics”, Review of Economic Studies 1 (1933): 3-21.
• Joseph Schumpeter, “Vilfredo Pareto”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 63 (1949): 147-73.

More recent accounts of Pareto’s contributions can be found in:

• John Chipman, “The Paretian Heritage”, Revue Europeenne des Sciences Sociales et Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto 14 (1976): 65-171.
• Roberto Marchionatti and Enrico Gambino, “Pareto and Political Economy as a Science: Methodological Revolution and Analytical Advances in Economic Theory in the 1890s”, Journal of Political Economy 105 (1997): 1322-48.