BIO
Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University (Milan) where he is also a Fellow of Dondena Centre and of IGIER. He is an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (New York), a Research Associate at the CAGE Research Centre (Warwick) and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). An economic and social historian and an historical demographer, he published extensively on Italy and Europe (and beyond), specialising in economic inequality and social mobility, in the history of epidemics and famines, in social alliance systems and social networks. During 2012-16 he was the Principal Investigator of the project EINITE-Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800 (www.dondena.unibocconi.it/EINITE), funded by the European Research Council (ERC), and during 2017-22 he was the Principal Investigator of a second ERC project, SMITE-Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800. His most recent books are The Lion’s Share. Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe (CUP 2019, with Matteo Di Tullio) and As Gods among Men. A Social and Economic History of the Rich in the West (Princeton 2023).