Research Affiliate at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin (Italy); Contract professor of: “Justice and Economy”; “Humanomics: Ethics and Economics”; “Humanomics: Philosophy and Economics”; “Economics of Education and Human Capital” (University of Turin, Italy); “E-commerce and Tax Justice” (LUISS University, Rome, Italy); “State and Institutions: Liberalism, Democracy, Economy” (Lyon 2, France).

My current research interests lie at the intersection of History and Philosophy of Economics, Legal and Political Philosophy, with a specific focus on: tax justice; freedom and liberalism; reciprocity and gift-giving in fiscal contract; Institutional Economics and gift; Solidarity; Percentage Philanthropy Institutions; value Judgements and normativity in Economics and in Law & Economics; Italian tradition in public finance, Luigi Einaudi.

I held Visiting positions at: Cornell University as “Luigi Einaudi” Chair Holder (2011), Mario Einaudi Center (2014), Cornell Law School (USA – 2015); Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany – 2015); Department of Government, LSE (UK – 2015); Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg as Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union and Guest Professor (Germany – 2017-18); Triangle UMR 5206 – CNRS/ENS de Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France – 2020).

From 2012 to 2018 I was also Coordinator of the Cornell-in-Turin Study Abroad Programme (Cornell University, USA), where I also taught Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) modules.

Among my honours and prizes: the STOREP grant Award 2016 for the research project “Theories of tax justice: between exchange and gift”; the Marie Curie Fellowship for the research project “Anthropology of Taxation. Enquiry into the Human Foundations of Fiscal Democracy” (2017-18); Honorary “Fair Inheritance” Fellowship (Research project “Fair inheritance”), Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale, Université catholique de Louvain (2020-21).

I am member of the Editorial Boards of several journals and editorial series, and member of the scientific committee of the “National Edition of the Works of Luigi Einaudi”.

Among my latest monographic and edited publications: L. Einaudi, On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value judgments in Economic Sciences, Critical edition with an Introduction and Afterword by Paolo Silvestri, Routledge, London - New York, 2017; (co-ed.) “On The Future of Law and Economics by Guido Calabresi: an interdisciplinary dialogue”, Global Jurist (De Gruyter) 3/2019; (ed.) “Economics, Law and Philosophy: Homo-what?”, Teoria e Critica della regolazione sociale, 3/2019 (Mimesis); (co-ed.) “On the Institutional Analysis of Gift”, Journal of Institutional Economics, 16(5), 2019 (Cambridge University Press); Il dono del 5x1000. Sussidiarietà fiscale e Terzo settore (with S. Chiadò, A. Lo Presti), Quaderni della Fondazione CRC, 39, 1/2020; (co-ed.) The Gift in the Economy and Society. Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences, Routledge 2020.