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Luca d’Agliano

Luca d’Agliano was born in Turin on July 4th, 1961. In September 1980, he went up to Churchill College,

University of Cambridge, where he read and then . On taking his degree in 1983, he was awarded a scholarship by the Fondazione , Turin, and was admitted to St. Anthony's Fifth Luca d’Agliano Lecture College, . Here, under the guidance of in Amartya , he studied questions relating to developing For information and replies countries and . It was Luca’s vision that the study of economics should be “… be continually carried over into practical applications, Simona Orlando above all when attempting to solve problems that limit the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano DOES CHANGE growth of man's well-being. For this substantially Palazzo d’Azeglio EVERYTHING? ideological reason, it becomes important to combine close Via Principe Amedeo, 34 study of purely theoretical matters with a study of the 10123 Torino problems afflicting the developing countries in their Paul R. Krugman struggle against […]”. Tel: +39 011 836379 / 835656 Nearly a year later, Luca d'Agliano lost his life in a road Fax: + 39 011 8172078 Professor of Economics and International Affairs accident (June 1984). e-mail: [email protected] Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,

Jaime de Melo will remember Riccardo Faini Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano in his introduction to the Lecture

The Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano was founded in Turin in For further information on Professor Paul R. Krugman 1986 by the family of Luca d'Agliano, his friends, and some and on the Lecture, please refer to: of his teachers. It is currently located at the Fondazione Monday, June 11th 2007 Luigi Einaudi in Torino and at the University of Milan. It is 5.30 p.m. a non- research institution contributing original www.dagliano.unimi.it research in the field of international and development Fondazione Luigi Einaudi economics. Particular emphasis is placed on the training of Palazzo d’Azeglio young scholars and in giving them the opportunity of Via Principe Amedeo, 34 acquiring a truly international perspective. The activities of 10123 Torino the Centro Studi mainly focus on academic research, but it also greatly contributes to the policy debate, working for institutions such as the , the European

Commission, the United Nations, the Bank of Italy and the The activities of the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano

Italian Government. in Torino are supported by the

Paul R. Krugman Programme The Luca d’Agliano Lectures in Development Economics , currently Professor of Economics and The Luca d’Agliano Lectures in Development Economics International Affairs at Princeton University, joined the Times as a columnist on the Op-Ed page in 1999. are organised every year in Turin thanks to the generous 17.30 Welcoming Address support of the Compagnia di San Paolo. They aim at He has also taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford and served on the U.S Council of Economic Advisers. favouring the diffusion of the ideas of the best world PIERO GASTALDO (General Secretary, Compagnia thinkers in the field to a non specialised audience. The His work focuses largely on international and finance. di San Paolo) ultimate objective of the lectures is to help grounding the

His major rethinking of the theory of , GIORGIO BARBA NAVARETTI (Scientific Director, general debate on development issues, often confused and otherwise known as his “”, has earned him Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano; Professor of muddled, into sound economic analysis. an important professional reputation. In 1991, in recognition Economics, University of Milan) The past Luca d’Agliano lectures had all been conceived of this work, he was awarded the Medal, a prize given every two years by the American Economic and introduced by Riccardo Faini. This year the Lecture 17.45 Remembering Riccardo Faini and Introduction to will, in his memory, be opened by Jaime de Melo. Association to an under forty. Paul R. Krugman

Paul Krugman is the author or editor of dozens of books J AIME DE MELO (Professor of Economics, (“Peddling Prosperity”, “: Theory University of Geneve) The First Luca d’Agliano Lecture, 2003 and Policy”), and several hundred papers, (published in Pranab Bardhan (Professor of Economics, magazines and journals such as Fortune, Slate, The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, ), a University of California, Berkeley): “Globalisation and the Poor” number of which are targeted to a broader public audience 18.00 Fifth Luca d’Agliano Lecture in Development of non-. Economics: The Second Luca d’Agliano Lecture, 2004 “Does Outsourcing Change Everything?” (Professor of International Political Does Outsourcing Change Everything? PAUL R. KRUGMAN (Professor of Economics and Economy, ):

New types of international trade, generally grouped together International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of “Rethinking in Developing under the catchall term "outsourcing", have been a source of Public and International Affairs, Princeton Countries” considerable debate. Even sober economists suggest that University) they require a "new paradigm" for thought, and/or raise new The Third Luca d’Agliano Lecture, 2006 questions about the beneficial character of trade. Jeffrey G. Williamson (Laird Bell Professor of

Economics, Harvard University): Professor Paul R. Krugman suggests that outsourcing, if you 19.15 Debate “ and Underdevelopment in the Pre- think about it the right way, fits closely into existing Modern Third World” paradigms. However, both hopes for and concerns about outsourcing have some real basis: the prospects for The Fourth Luca d’Agliano Lecture, 2006 developing country exports are better than we realized, but so are the prospects for serious income François Bourguignon (Chief Economist and problems. Senior Vice President, World Bank; Professor of Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris): “Employment and Development: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs”