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Contributors Ricardo Abramovay is Professor of Economic Sociology at the Department of Economics and the Institute of International Relations of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His major research area includes sustainable development and social participation in the transition towards a low carbon economy. Helen Alford is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. Her research interests focus on business and economic ethics, corporate social responsibility and Christian social thought. Antonio Andreoni is Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and Adjunct Professor in Ethical Banking and Microcredit at the University of Bologna. He is also International Consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna. He was co-founder of micro.Bo ONLUS and Make a Change. His research focuses on development and institutional economics, structural change and production economics, manufacturing development and industrial policies, microfinance and cooperatives. Antonio Argandoña is Professor of Economics and holder of the ‘la Caixa’ Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Economics and Finance of Spain and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), and Secretary General of EBEN- Spain. His main fields of interests are macroeconomics and monetary economics, business ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. Albino Barrera is Professor of Economics and Theology at Providence College, Rhode Island (USA). He has published in the areas of economic ethics, globalization, and theo- logical ethics. His books include Market Complicity and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Globalization and Economic Ethics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and God and the Evil of Scarcity (Notre Dame, 2005). Leonardo Becchetti is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. President of the Ethical Committee of Banca Popolare Etica, Director of www.bene- comune.net. He is the author of around 345 published works and his main research interests are ethics and economics, sustainable development and subjective well-being. Nicolò Bellanca is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Florence and a member of the lab ARCO (Action Research for Co- Development). His recent research has focused on the logic of collective action, comparative institutional analysis, capa- bility approach, relationship between economic development and post- representative democracy. Dr Elisa Bortoluzzi Dubach is a consultant in the fields of communication, foundations and sponsoring. She has broad experience as a leader of cultural and social sponsoring x Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zamagni - 9781849804745 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 02:28:59AM via free access Contributors xi projects, has contributed to the creation of large grantmaking foundations and is an advisor to CEOs and Presidents of the Board of international companies. She is also a lecturer in sponsoring and foundations at several European universities and institutions. Carlo Borzaga is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Trento. He is President of the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse). His scientific interests are labour economics, the economic analysis of cooperatives, social enterprises and non- profit organizations and the evolution of this sector in Europe. He is also concerned with welfare systems and the provision of social and health- care services. Luk Bouckaert is emeritus Professor of ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He started the interdisciplinary Centre for Economics and Ethics at Leuven (1987) and is founder- president of the European SPES Forum (2004). His most recent publication is The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business (co- edited with L. Zsolnai (2011)). Samuel Bowles is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute where he heads the Behavioral Sciences Program. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. His recent studies on cultural and genetic evolution have challenged the con- ventional economic assumption that people are motivated entirely by self- interest. His recent books include Poverty Traps (Princeton 2006), Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution (Princeton, 2006), A Cooperative Species: Human reciprocity and its evolution, co- authored with Herbert Gintis (2011), and Machiavelli’s Mistake: Why good laws are no substitute for good citizens (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2013). Andrea Brandolini is director and economist in the Department for Structural Economic Analysis at the Bank of Italy. He is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and chaired the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth from 2008 to 2010. His research interests include income and wealth distribution, poverty, and measurement of economic well- being. Luigino Bruni is Professor of Economics at the Lumsa University in Rome, and at the Sophia University of Loppiano (Florence). During the last 15 years his research has covered many areas ranging from microeconomics, ethics and economics, history of economic thought, methodology of economics, sociality and happiness in economics. He has also demonstrated great interest on the civil economy and economic- related catego- ries, such as reciprocity and gratuitousness. His current research focuses on the role of intrinsic motivation in economic and civil life. Alain Caillé, formerly trained as an economist, is emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. He is the director of La Revue du MAUSS (Mouvement anti- utilitariste en science sociale, Anti-Utilitarian Movement in Social Science), an international and interdisciplinary review in sociology, anthropology, economics and political philosophy. His main interest is in general social theory, especially in the wake of Marcel Mauss’ Essay on the Gift and Karl Polanyi. John B. Davis, Professor of Economics, Marquette University, and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, is author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zamagni - 9781849804745 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 02:28:59AM via free access xii Handbook on the economics of reciprocity and social enterprise (Cambridge University Press, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (Routledge, 2003), Individuals and Identity in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and co-author with Marcel Boumans of Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science (Palgrave, 2011). He is co- editor with Wade Hands of the Journal of Economic Methodology. Jacques Defourny is Professor of Economics at the University of Liege (Belgium) where he is also a director of the Centre for Social Economy. From 1996 to 2010, he acted as the founding coordinator and then the president of the EMES European Research Network, which gathers 12 university research centres working on the third sector and the emergence of social enterprise. His work currently focuses on comparisons of social enterprise models across the world and on conceptual and quantitative analysis of the third sector in developed as well as developing countries. Lewis Faulk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on non- profit competition, organizational capacity, resource development, and performance. Bruno S. Frey is Professor at the University of Zurich, Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK, and holds honorary doctorates at the University of Gothenburg and four other universities. He has published extensively on public choice and non- market economics including happiness and economics, motivation and knowledge transfer, and arts and economics. Dr Lorna Gold is Policy and Advocacy Manager for Trócaire, the Irish Catholic International Development Agency. She writes extensively on ethics and public policy, with special focus on international cooperation. She has published two books and numerous articles on the Economy of Communion and is a former member of the international commission for an Economy of Communion. Herbert Gintis is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, NM) and Professor of Economics, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). His recent books include, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Evolution co-authored with Samuel Bowles (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009); and Game Theory Evolving (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). His recent work on market dynamics includes ‘The Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange’, Contributions to Theoretical Economics 6(1), p. 13 (2006) and ‘The Dynamics of General Equilibrium’, Economic Journal 117, pp. 1289–1309 (2007). Benedetto Gui is Professor of Economics at the University of Padova (Italy). His research interests include: the economic behaviour of cooperative, non- profit, and social enterprises; the economic implications of interpersonal

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