Renaissance in Economics
2nd International Conference
Manifesto for New Economy
Department of Economics and Management – University of Florence (Italy)
5-6 June 2025
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Program 5-6 June 2025
Florence (Italy)
We are living in challenging time, facing threats that put the future of our civilisation at risk.
We are aware of how much economic thought and related fields play a fundamental role in our culture. The latest advancements at the research frontier show that a shift towards a vision capable of overcoming barriers and reductionism is not only possible but necessary. For this reason, we believed that the time has come to propose, together with colleagues from Italian and international universities, a Manifesto that illustrates the generative potential of our discipline — a sustainable response to today’s challenges, rooted in the search for fulfilment, the richness of meaning, and the well-being of life itself.
Thursday 5 June – Morning Session
University of Florence (Novoli campus)
Institutional greetings – 9.30 – 9.50 | University of Florence
Paola Galgani, Deputy Mayor of Municipality of Florence
Alessandra Petrucci, Rector of University of Florence
Plenary session – Discussion of Manifesto – 9.50 – 11.30 | University of Florence
Presentation of the International version of Manifesto for New Economy
In collaboration with the SPES project
Chair: Michele Cagiano, Deputy Director of Skytg24
Keynote speakers:
Romina Boarini, Director of the OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE)
Mario Nava, Director-General – Directorate General “Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion” (EMPL), European Commission
Phoebe Koundouri, Professor of Economics and Business of Athens University & University of Cambridge, President World Council of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists Associations; Chair SDSN Global Climate Hub; Director AE4RIA; Director Sustainable Development Unit ATHENA Research Center
Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Columbia University
Conclusions:
Mario Biggeri, Professor of University of Florence and Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Parallel (or invited) sessions – 11.45 – 13.15 | University of Florence
Presentation of the selected scientific papers
Building D6 - Classroom n. 018
Debt relief for ecological transition: a Jubilee proposal.
Special Session: A panel in the memory and honour of Professor Andrea G. Cornia
Chair: Mario Biggeri e Federico Perali (SITES)
Speakers: Leonardo Becchetti – Gianni Vaggi – Giulio Guarini – Giovanni Moro
Building D6 - Classroom n. 105
Renaissance in Economics in Europe 1: Towards a Macroeconomics of Interdependent Systems
Chair: Fabio Masini
Speakers: Fabio Masini – Albertina Nania – Kseniia Lopukh – Antonio Magliulo – Pompeo Della Posta
Building D15 - Classroom n. 005
Just Industrial policy. Growth, Development and Sustainability.
Chair: Marco Di Tommaso
Speakers: Emanuele Felice – Marco Di Tommaso & Elisa Barbieri – Alberto Rinaldi – Lauretta Rubini & Chiara Pollio – Elena Prodi & Mattia Tassinari
Building D6 - Classroom n. 014
Beyond the exclusivity of a top-down approach to political economy 1
Chair: Letizia Donati
Speakers: Letizia Donati e Silvia Giordano – Marco Bellandi – Demetrio Bova Mauro Gallegati e Damiano Meloni – Francesco Salustri – Fabio Pisani
Building D6 - Classroom n. 016
Environmental, Social, Economic, and Financial Sustainability in Worker Cooperatives
Chair: Marina Albanese
Speakers: Marina Albanese – Ermanno Tortia – Marco Lomuscio – Asia Guerreschi – Jerome Warren
Building D6 - Classroom n. 104
Economia del benessere e Rinascimento economico
Chair: Fabio Conditi
Speakers: Fabio Conditi – Don Roberto Caria – Filomena Maggino – Marco Cattaneo – Nicola Matteucci – Gianni Spada – Flavio Monosilio – Roberto Cervellini – Roberto Sparagio (Coboldo Melo)
Building D6 - Classroom n. 110
Reinventing measurement standards for a thriving and evolutionary future.
Beyond Homo Economicus, GDP, and towards socially engaged Academia.
Chair: Rodrigo Martínez Romero
Speakers: – Rodrigo Martínez Romero – Mark Vandeneijnde – Dr. Caroline Lancelot Miltgen – Michael J. Dawkins – Darinka Rueda – Luca Salvini
Building D5 - Classroom n. 002
Beyond profit maximisation 1
Chair: Erminia Florio
Speakers: Erminia Florio – Sara Mancini – Luigi Reatti – Greta Falavigna – Stefano Colombo
Building D5 - Classroom n. 008
Beyond homo economicus
Chair: Roberto Tamborini
Speakers: Roberto Tamborini – Francesco Suppressa – Pietro Ghirlanda & Enrica Chiappero – Martin Jacques – Anna Horodecka
Building D5 - Classroom n. 114
Beyond GDP toward more comprehensive wellbeing indicators
Chair: Pasquale De Muro
Speakers: Pasquale De Muro – Luca Lodi – Massimo Arnone – Kelsey J. O’Connor – Francesco Morelli
Building D4 - Classroom n. 004
Toward social engagement
Chair: Rocco Caferra
Speakers: Rocco Caferra – Giulia Slater – Fabrizio Sbicca – Mauricio Hernandez – Giovanni Cerase – Tunahan Aslan
Building D4 - Classroom n. 006
Beyond the exclusivity of a top-down approach to political economy 2
Chair: Edgar Sanchez Carrera
Speakers: Edagar Sanchez Carrera – Tommaso Luzzati – Davide Bellucci – Pierre Funalot – Giacomo Degli Antoni
Building D4 - Classroom n. 009
Beyond profit maximisation 2
Chair: Alessio Biondo
Speakers: Alessio Biondo – Antonio Maria Russo – Tiziano Distefano – Riccardo Leoncini – Diana Rueda
Lunch – 13.30 – 14.30 | Near the sessions venue, University of Florence
*Speakers awaiting confirmation
Thursday 5 June – Afternoon Session
University of Florence (Novoli campus)
Plenary session – 14.45 – 16.00 | University of Florence
Renaissance in Economics: The Role of Universities in Shaping the Future of Education
Chair: Pietro Saccò, Deputy Editor in Chief of Avvenire
Round Table:
Antonio Uricchio, President of Anvur
Roberto Cellini, Professor of Economics of University of Catania and Vice president SIE – Italian Society of Economists
Alessandra Petrucci, Rector of University of Florence
Matteo Lorito, Rector of University of Federico II Naples
Conclusions:
Marcello Signorelli, Professor of Economics of University of Perugia
Plenary session – Discussion of Manifesto – 16.00 – 17.00 | University of Florence
Manifesto for New Economy: The Right to the Future: A Pact for the New Generations
Chair: Giovanni Ferri, Professor of Economics of LUMSA University
Video of Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and ex Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Round Table:
Diana Severati, Vice President AIESEC Alumni Europe
Maria Zinutti, Representative Wellbeing Economy Alliance – WEAll
Francesco Salustri, Professor of Economics of University Roma TRE
Discussant:
Student and PhD Candidate of University of Florence
Parallel (or invited) sessions – 17.30 – 19.00 | University of Florence
Presentation of the selected scientific papers
Building D6 - Classroom n. 018
For a new vision of Integral Human Development: Integral Ecology and Policy Implications
Book Presentation: “Economy for Integral Human Development”
Chair: Leonardo Becchetti
Speakers: Mario Biggeri – Guidalberto Bormolini – Giulio Guarini -Patrizio Bianchi – Stefano Zamagni
Building D6 - Classroom n. 105
Beyond homo economicus
Chair: Alessandra Venturini
Speakers: Alessandra Venturini – Vittorio Caligiuri – Jürgen Volkert – Gianluigi Conzo – Umberto Triulzi
Building D15 - Classroom n. 005
La sostenibilità del ben vivere: approcci interdisciplinari per la valutazione della qualità della vita tra territori, lavori e spazi
Chair: Enrico Marone
Speakers: Maria Paola Monaco – Enrico Marone – Leonardo Casini – Nicoletta Setola
Building D6 - Classroom n. 014
Another Job, Another Company. Remaking Life, Economy and Society
Chair: Marco Di Tommaso
Speakers: Ilaria Mariotti e Dimitri Manoukas – Patrizia Leone e Giuseppe Pignataro – Federica Rossi e Vincenzo Alfano – Salvatore Zappalà e Simone Donati – Riccardo Leoncini
Building D6 - Classroom n. 016
Beyond GDP toward more comprehensive wellbeing indicators 1
Chair: Vito Peragine
Speakers: Paul Anand – Chiara Sciascia & Marusca De Castris – Vito Peragine – Irene Fattacciu – Veronica Pollin
Building D6 - Classroom n. 104
Beyond the exclusivity of a top-down approach to political economy
Chair: Giuseppe Terzo
Speakers: Piergiuseppe Ellerani – Giuseppe Terzo – Fiorenzo Polito – Carlo Bottai – Elisa Palagi
Building D6 - Classroom n. 110
Beyond GDP toward more comprehensive wellbeing indicators 2
Chair: Chiara Grazini
Speakers: Chiara Colamartino – Chiara Grazini – Francesca Zagli – Elisa Betti – Artelaris Panagiotis
Building D5 - Classroom n. 002
Beyond profit maximisation 1
Chair: Beatrice di Marco
Speakers: Beatrice Di Marco – Fabio Reali – Gianluca Pallante – Claudia Ulloa Severino
Building D5 - Classroom n. 008
Beyond profit maximisation 2
Chair: Stefano Castriota
Speakers: Michele Fabiani – Carlo Migliardo – Marco Spadaro – Antonio Fabio Forgione – Stefano Castriota
Building D5 - Classroom n. 114
Special Session: Past, Present, and Future of Ecological Economic: Reflections Inspired by a New Italian Textbook
Chair: Tiziano Distefano
Speakers: Tiziano Distefano – Patty L’Abbate – Tommaso Luzzati – Maria Olivella Rizza
Building D4 - Classroom n. 004
Toward social engagement
Chair: Loredana Strianese
Speakers: Paolo di Caro – Maria Viscolo – Loredana Strianese – Giorgia Zotti – Fabrizio Colantoni – Leonardo Paoli
Conference dinner with live music – 20.30 | Palazzo Gondi
Palazzo Gondi
Via dei Gondi, 2, 50122 Firenze FI
*Speakers awaiting confirmation
Friday 6 June – Morning Session
University of Florence (Novoli campus)
Keynote speaker – 9.30 – 10.10 | University of Florence
Wellbeing, life satisfaction and common good: Where do we stand?
Lectio
Bruno Frey, Professor of Economics of University of Basel
Plenary session – 10.10 – 11.15 | University of Florence
Renaissance in Economics: policy implications and which public programming models
Chair: Paola Bonanni, Deputy Chief Editor of the Economics Department of RAI
Round table:
Fabiola Di Loreto, Executive Director of Confcooperative
Sergio Gatti, Director of Federcasse-BCC
Alberto De Toni, Mayor of Udine and ex Rector of University of Udine
Stefania Proietti, President of Umbria Region
Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economics of University Johns Hopkins University
Assembly of Manifesto – 11.15 – 12.45 | University of Florence
Leonardo Becchetti, Director of the National Festival of Civil Economy and Co-founder of NeXt – Nuova Economia per Tutti
Intervention by the Organizing Committee and participants
Presentation Special Issues
Invited Opening Remarks of Guidalberto Bormolini, spiritual assistant and writer
Young paper award – 12.45 – 13.15 | University of Florence
Chair: Giulio Guarini, Professor of Economics of University of Tuscia
Lunch – 13.30 – 14.30 | Near the session venue, University of Florence
*Speakers awaiting confirmation
Friday 6 June – Afternoon Session
University of Florence (Novoli campus)
Civil Economy, Wellbeing and Ecologica transition – 14.45 – 16.00 | University of Florence
Keynote speakers:
Rutger Hoekstra, Professor of Economics of University of Leiden
Bruno Frey, Professor of Economics of University of Basel
Phoebe Koundouri, Professor of Economics and Business of Athens University & University of Cambridge, President World Council of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists Associations; Chair SDSN Global Climate Hub; Director AE4RIA; Director Sustainable Development Unit ATHENA Research Center
Speaker and Chair: Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Professor of Political economy of University of Pavia, HDCA and Concluding remarks
Parallel (or invited) sessions – 16.15 – 17.45 | University of Florence
Presentation of the selected scientific papers
Building D6 - Classroom n. 018
SPES: Towards a consensus on measuring transition performances within a Sustainable Human Development Paradigm
Chair: Mario Biggeri
Speakers: Luca Lodi – Mario Biggeri– Amaia Palencia-Esteban – Andrea Ferrannini – Jacopo Cammeo
Building D6 - Classroom n. 113
Renaissance in Economics in Europe (2): Beyond profit maximisation?
Chair: Antonio Magliulo
Speakers: Zucchelli Davidia & Letizia Pagliai – Giulia Tamagnone – Marco Grazzi – Valentina Erasmo
Building D15 - Classroom n. 005
Special Session: Well-Being, Generativity and the development of Green jobs: the experience of the Green at You project
(in collaboration with University of Madrid)
Chair: Leonardo Becchetti
Speakers: Leonardo Becchetti – Fabio Cucculelli & Demetrio Bova – Elisa Bianchini – Dario Poligioni – Stefano Zamagni – Alessio Malcevschi
Building D6 - Classroom n. 005
Beyond homo economicus
Chair: Giacomo Bazzani
Speakers: Giacomo Bazzani – Gianluca Gherardi – Vladimer Papava – Laura Colli – Toa Giroletti
Building D6 - Classroom n. 014
Toward social engagement
Chair: Matteo Mengoni
Speakers: Leonardo Rosini – Matteo Mengoni – Arianna Mommi – Stefano Di Francesco – Cristina Cervino – Luciano Pilotti
Building D6 - Classroom n. 003
Beyond the exclusivity of a top-down approach to political economy
Chair: Stefano Clò
Speakers: Matteo B. Marini – Martina Giuzio – Annalena Valentini – Stefano Clò – Eugenio Vicario
Building D5 - Classroom n. 002
Food economy: Building Resilience and Social Justice in Agricultural Systems through Solidarity Economies, Self-managed Labour and Agroecology
Chair: Jason Nardi
Speakers: Jason Nardi – Ana Sofia Acosta Alvarado – Martina Martignoni – Anna Pellanda – Gianluca Stefani
Building D5 - Classroom n. 008
Beyond GDP toward more comprehensive wellbeing indicators
Chair: Guido Frilli
Speakers: Giuditta Corbella – Ana Boskovic & Peter Benczur – Tommaso Mauri – Eleonora Zaino – Giuseppe Fidelibus
Building D5 - Classroom n. 113
Challenging Democratic Lip-Service in Firms: Towards Concrete Measures of Organizational Democracy
Chair: Jerome Warren
Speakers: Jerome Warren – Simon Pek – Robert Magnuszewski
Building D4 - Classroom n. 003
Beyond profit maximisation
Chair: Costanza Usai
Speakers: Luca Bortolotti & Paola Bordandini – Costanza Usai – Irene Cresci e Laetitia Dillenseger – Alessandra Moresi
Building D4 - Classroom n. 004
Toward social engagement 1
Chair: Leonardo Rosini
Speakers: Antonio D’Alessio – Chiara Peroni – Leonardo Rosini – Stephen Smith – Francesco Sarracino
Building D4 - Classroom n. 009
Beyond homo economicus 2
Chair: Sara Balestri
Speakers: Dominic Richardson & David Harris – Roberto Cirillo – Sara Balestri – Elisabetta Cappa
Building D4 - Classroom n. 013
Beyond GDP toward more comprehensive wellbeing indicators 2
Chair: Sabrina Auci
Speakers: Stefano Di Francesco – Giuseppe Pernagallo – Sabrina Auci – Fernando Flores Tavares
Farewell Reception – 17.45 – 18.45 | University of Florence
*Speakers awaiting confirmation
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