Note Biografiche  

Nato a Torino,  1 dicembre 1942 .  

 

 

 Curriculum accademico  e Pubblicazioni

 Dal 1976 Professore Associato presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Torino.  Dal 1987 al 2005 Professore di Economia Politica presso la Facoltà di Economia e Commercio dell’Università di Trento, in cui è stato  anche Direttore del Dipartimento di Economia  (1989-1995). Dal 1996 al 2004 è stato Rettore  dell’Università di Trento, e nell’ultimo biennio membro dell’Ufficio di Presidenza della CRUI con delega ai Rapporti con l’Unione Europea e rappresentante presso l’EUA (European University Association), con delega ai Rapporti tra ricerca e industria. Dal novembre 2005 è professore  all’Università LUISS Guido Carli, di cui è attualmente Rettore. Nell’ultimo decennio è  stato ospite di varie Università e centri di ricerca, tra cui Ecole Politecnique (Parigi), Ecole Normale Superieure (Cachan, Paris), il Santa Fe Institute (USA), University of California at Berkeley, (USA), lo  IIASA, Laxenburg, (Austria).E’  Co-Direttore, con Axel Leijonhufvud, del Laboratorio di Economia Sperimentale e Computazionale (CEEL, Trento). E’ membro fondatore  e  Consigliere di amministrazione di Campus Europae-European University Foundation, Luxembourg, e membo fondatore dell’Università Italo Tedesca, di cui è attualmente Direttore. Inoltre è membro del Comitato scientifico dell’ESNIE – European School on New Institutional Economics, Université de Paris X, della Società Italiana degli Economisti, dell’European Economic Society, dell’European Association of Evolutionary  Economics del Dottorato in Economics a SciencePo (Parigi) 

  Selezione di Pubblicazioni  (1990-oggi)

( i working papers  correlati sono downloadable a http://ideas.repec.org/e/peg2.html)

 Egidi M (2007) Le processus dual du raisonnement: origines, problèmes et perspectives in  B. Walliser  Economie cognitive , Ophrys / Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris 2008

(2007) “Decomposition patterns in problem solving” , in Cognitive Economics: New Trends, Contributions to Economic Analysis, volume 280, Chapter 1, Part I, Decisions and Beliefs : edited by Richard Topol &Bernard Walliser,  Elsevier.  

( forthcoming) “The cognitive explanation of economic behaviour : from Simon to Kahneman “ in Arena R. and Festré A. Knowledge and Beliefs in Economics. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. 

(2005) From Bounded Rationality to Behavioral Economics, Social Science Research Network, El. Paper Collection,  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=758424 

 (2005) “Dalla razionalità limitata all’economia comportamentale”. In Le Nuove Economie, Viale, R., editor. Milano, Edizioni il Sole 24 Ore.  

 (2005) “Prefazione”. In  Economia Cognitiva e Sperimentale, Guala, V., Motterlini, M., editors, Milano: Università Bocconi Editore. 

 (2004) “Distorsioni nelle decisioni razionali”. In Rivista Italiana degli Economisti. Anno IX (1), 33-76.  

con Rizzello, S., (2004) “Cognitive Economics: foundations and historical roots”. In Cognitive Economics, Egidi, M., Rizzello, S., editors. Aldershot U.K.: Elgar,1-22. 

con  Marengo, L., (2004) “Cognition, institutions, near decomposability: rethinking Herbert Simon’s contribution”. In Models of A Man: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon, Augier M., March, J. J., editors. Cambridge : MIT Press.  

(2003) “Decomposition Patterns in Problem Solving”. In Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL  URL

con Rizzello, S. (2003) “Economia Cognitiva: fondamenti ed evoluzione storica”. In Sistemi Intelligenti. Bologna: Il Mulino, Anno XV (2), 221-246.

(2003) “Razionalità Limitata”. In Sistemi Intelligenti. Bologna: Il Mulino, Anno XV (1), 67-72.

(2003) “Discrepancies: competing theories and ideologies as cognitive traps”. In, Cognitive Developments in Economics, Rizzello, S., editor.
London: Routledge.   

(2001) “Biases in Organizational Behavior”. In The Economics of Choice, Change and Organization: Essays in Memory of Richard M. Cyert, Augier M., March J. J., editors. Aldershot U.K.: Elgar, 190-242. 

(2001) “Herbert Alexander Simon’s Contribution to the Sciences of Artificial”. In Proceedings EAPE 2001 Conference,Siena, 8-11 Novembre 2001. 

(2000) “‘Bias’ cognitivi nelle organizzazioni”. In Sistemi Intelligenti. Bologna: Il Mulino. Anno XII (2), 237-269.

con   Bonini, N.,(1999) “Cognitive Traps in Individual and Organizational Behavior: some empirical evidence”. In Revue d’economie industrielle. Paris:C.N.R.S. (88), 153-186.

 ”Charasoff, Georg von”.  In The Elgar Companion to Classical economics. Kurz, H., Salvatori, N., editors. Aldershot U.K: Elgar, 96-100.  -          

 (1997) “Technological and organizational innovations as problem solving activities”. In Economic of Structural and Technological Change Antonelli, G., De Liso N., editors,  London: Routledge. -          

con Ricottilli, M., (1997) “Coordination and Specialization as coevolutionary processes”. In Simulating Social Phenomena: Lectures Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Conte, R., Hegselmann, R., Terna, P., editors, Springer-Verlag. (456), 345-64.   

(1997) “Comment: Adverse Selection within Organizations“. In Simon, H. A.: An Empirically Based Microeconomics, Raffaele Mattioli Lectures. Cambridge University Press. 111-132.  -         

 con Narduzzo, A., (1997) “The Emergence of Path Dependent Behaviors in Cooperative Contexts”. In International Journal of Industrial Organization. 15(6), 677-709.  

con   Bonini, N., (1996) “La decisione di squadra: un’ analisi di alcuni aspetti cognitivi”. In Sistemi Intelligent.i  Bologna: Il Mulino. Anno VIII (3), 439-468.

con M., Cohen, M., Burkhart, R., Dosi, G., Marengo, L., Warglien, M., Winter, S., (1996) “Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues”. In Industrial and Corporate Change, Glascow:Oxford University Press. 5(3), 653-98. 

 (1996) ” ‘Creative Destruction’ in Economic and Political Institutions”. In: Economic institutions, markets and competition: Centralization and decentralization in the transformation of economic systems, Dallago, B.; Mittone, L., editors, Aldershot U.K: Elgar,  33-62. 

(1996) “Routines, Hierarchies of Problems, Procedural Behaviour: Some Evidence from Experiments”. In: The rational foundations of economic behaviour Arrow, Kenneth J., et al., editors, St. New York: Martin’s Press, London: Macmillan Press, in association with the International Economic Association. (114), 303-33.  

con Messori, M., (1995) “Teoria economica e Teoria dell’Organizzazione”. In Relazioni pericolose – L’avventura dell’economia nella cultura contemporanea, Rodano, G., editor, Bari: Laterza. -          

con Marengo, L., (1995) “Division of Labour and Social Coordination Modes”. In Artificial Societies: the computer simulation of social life, Nigel Gilbert, N., Conte, R., editors,  London: UCL press. Vol.XIII.   

(1992) “Il Dilemma As If”. In Sistemi Intelligent. Bologna: Il Mulino. Anno IV (3).          

(1992) “Organizational Learning, Problem Solving and the Division of Labour”. In Economics, Bounded Rationality and the cognitive    revolution, Simon, H.A., Egidi, M., Marris, R., and Viale, R., editors.Aldershot, U.K.: Elgar, 148-73. 

(1992) “Stability and Instability in Sraffian Models”. In Italian economic papers, Pasinetti, L., editor.  Bologna: il Mulino; Oxford; New York; Toronto and Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (1), 215-50.    con  Dosi, G.,(1991) “Substantive and Procedural Uncertainty: An Exploration of Economic Behaviours in Changing Environments”. In Journal of Evolutionary Economics.  1(2), 145-68. 

Relazioni e Conferenze invitate (selezione 1996-2004)

 ”Path-dependant learning processes and the formation of distributed memory in organizational groups”, invited talk. Mémoire organisationnelle et dynamique innovatrice, Technologie et sciences de l’homme, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, January, 22-25, 1996.    -          

“Rationalité et Apprentissage”, invited talk, Université de Lyon, March 14, 1996.-          

“Transform the Target”, invited talk at Centre sur l’Economie des Changements Technologiques, CNRS, Lyon, March ,15, 1996.  

“Landscape Theory and Bounded Rationality Approach”, invited seminar. Possibilities and Limits of Cognitive Economics, Conference LASCOMES, Università Bocconi, Milano, March, 22,  1996.          

“Les mécanismes path-dependent en apprentissage organisationnel”, invited seminar. GRASCE, Centre Forbin, Université de Aix-Marseille II, Aix-en-Provence, April, 24, 1996.-          

 ”Evolutionisme” Colloque, Université de Paris   La  Sorbonne, September, 19-20, 1996.

 ”Dall’economia sperimentale alle tecniche di simulazione”, invited seminar. “Sistemi intelligenti”, Bologna, Novembre, 10, 1996.

  “Routines and Organizational learning”, Allied Social Science Association Conference,New Orleans, January , 4-6 ,1997.-          

“Theories of Bounded Rationality”, invited seminar.Bonn Workshop 1997, Universität Bonn, May , 6-10, 1997. -        

   International Conference on Computer Simulation and the Social Science, Cortona, 21-25 September 1997.-          

Troisièmes Journées d’économie expérimentale, Laboratoire Montpelliérain d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Université de Montpellier, October , 9-10, 1997. -          

 ”Path-dependent Learning Processes and Mental Models in Cooperative Setting: some Evidence and Perspectives” presented at the conference “Cognition, Motivation, Reasoning – Models of Boundedly Rational Decision Processing”, Universität Bielefeld, December, 4-6, 1997. -          

“Cognitive theory of social action”, invited seminar. European Science Foundation, Network on Human Reasoning and Decision Making,
Torino June 11-13, 1998.

 ”L’uso della comunicazione mediata da computer nell’economia sperimentale: opportunità e limiti”, invited seminar. Laboratorio di Scienze cognitive, metodologiche ed economico-sociali, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano  December , 16, 1998.

 ”Quelle est la place des approches évolutionnistes dans la théorie économique”? Round table Ecole Doctorale d’Economie, Université Pierre Mendes France Grenoble, Novembre, 19, 1999.-          

 ”Alternative Representations and Biases in Organizational Problem-Solving”, invited seminar. European ESA meetings 2000, Università di Amsterdam, October , 18-21, 2000.-          

 CEEL 2000-2001 Workshop Series on Experimental Economics, Universität Graz, Institut für Statistik und Operations Research, October, 26-27, 2000 – invited seminar: “Biases in Problem-Solving”.-          

Connaissance et croyances en histoire de la pensée économique, Quatrième Université d’Eté en Histoire de la Pensée et Méthodologie Economiques, Nice, September 3-7, 2001- key lecture : “Connaissance, rationalité et cognition: une question ouverte dans l’histoire de la pensée économique”.-          

 ”Using Landscapes and Classifier Systems to explain Biases in Decision Making” invited seminar at Conference  “New Paradigms for the New Millennium”, Università di Salerno, September 13-15, 2001.-            

“Five views on Herbert Simon’s legacy to social sciences”, Plenary Opening Address. Comparing Economic Institutions, EAEPE Conference 2001, Università di Siena, November , 8-11, 2001. -            

ESNIE 2002 European School on New Institutional Economics, Université de Paris X, Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corse, April , 1-6, 2002.-          

Sixteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2002, Österreichische Studiengesellschaft für Kybernetik, Vienna, April, 2-5, 2002 – Plenary Opening Address: “Biases in Problem Solving: from Theory to Experimental Evidence”.-          

“Rethinking bounded rationality” presented at the “Conferenza annuale della Società Italiana degli Economisti”, first section (Ferrara, October, 25, 2002).-            

“Institutions and Organizations”, conference in honor of James J. March, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Laboratory of Economics and Management,Lucca, July 4-6, 2002. -            

“Ledership”, Opening Lecture at Conference in honor of James J. March,StanfordUniversity, July 2003. -          

 ”Biases in Organizational Behavior”, Invited seminar, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, July 2003.

- “Processi Cognitivi e microfondamenti del comportamento economico” Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca “F.Enriquez” in “Razionalità e Processi Cognitivi” , May 12,13 University of Bologna

-  ”Biases in Decision making: experiments and theory in the light of the bounded rationality approach”, key lecture at First Conference on Cognitive Economics, CNRS, ADRES, Gif sur Yvette, Paris, September, 6, 2004.-          

  ”Stable sub-optimal Coordination Patterns” at Conference “Forms, Functions and Organization”, villa Guastavillani, Università di Bologna, September 9,10,11,  2004.-          

 ”Revisiting Bounded Rationality: theory and experimental evidence” invited speech at the Workshop  “Economic and Philosophy”, Scuola Normale di Pisa, December, 1,2,  2004.-           

 ”Biases in organizational learning” invited seminar at Conference on “Routines and recurring behavioural patterns” Université Nice, Sophia Antipolis, January 2005. 

Selezione di Relazioni invitate nel campo dell’ Alta Formazione (a. 2002-’04) 

 ”L’internazionalizzazione della formazione universitaria nell’ambito Europeo”, Panel EUA, Torino, 6 dicembre 2002.

 ”Managing change and innovation. Case Study: The University of Trento (Italy)”, IV Conferenza dell’EUA e II Assemblea Generale – “The Role of Universities in the ERA”,Bristol, 28-29 marzo 2003.-          

“Revisiting the links between higher education and research”, EUA Convention of European Higher Education Institutions,
Graz, 29-31 maggio, 2003.-          

“The career of a researcher in the European Research Area”, European Conference, Badia Fiesolana (FI), 17-18 luglio 2003.-            

“Culture and changes: Approaches and implementation – the role of the rector”,  Seminario EUA-EQUIS: “Governance and Leadership: Developing new policies and skills”, Lovanio, 5-6 dicembre 2003.-          

“University autonomy and governance” , European Commission, DG Research: “The Europe of knowledge 2020″, Liegi, 25-28 aprile 2004.-

“Universities: Education providers or market players?”, EAIE  “The role of the universities in the European Research Area”, Torino, 15-18 settembre 2004