Clara E. Mattei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of The New School for Social Research, and was a 2018-2019 member of the School of Social Sciences at the 51黑料爆料网历史事件 for Advanced Studies. Her research contributes to the history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making.
She is currently working on her book project entitled Economic Crisis and Technocratic Repression: On the Origins and Rationality of Austerity, which investigates austerity as a powerful tool of reaction against the unprecedented crisis of capitalism after World War I, the mobilization of the working classes, and the proposals for post-capitalist reconstruction.
Degrees Held
PhD (jointly), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSUP) and Universit茅 de Strasbourg, Ecole Doctorale Augustine Cournot in Strasbourg
MA in Philosophy, Pavia
BA in Philosophy, Cambridge
Recent Publications
“. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28(4), 749-784, 2018. With Franceso Lamperti.
鈥淓arly Women Economists at Columbia University Contributions in the Struggle for Labor Protection in the Lochner Era鈥�, chapter in , Kirsten K Madden and Robert K Diamond Editors, Routledge, 2018.
“, 1918-25,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 40(4), 2018.
鈥�,鈥� Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, 14 July 2018, Pages 1123鈥�1144
“Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the Early Years of the Fascist Government 1922-1925”, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (EJHET), Vol. 24:5, 2017.
“”, Journal of Law and Society (JLS), Vol. 4:1, 2017
Forthcoming
“A Decade After: a New Orography of Growth Patterns”, LEM Working Paper, forthcoming on The Journal of Evolutionary Economics, co-authored with Francesco Lamperti.
Research Interests
Post-WWI monetary and fiscal policies, history of economic thought and methodology
Awards And Honors
Young Scholar Award of the History of Economics Society (June 2015) for the working paper presented at the annual conference: “The Guardians of Capitalism. International Consensus and Fascist Technocratic Implementation of Austerity”
Young Scholar Award off the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (May 2015) for the working paper presented at the annual conference: “Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the EarlyYears of the Fascist Government 1922-1925鈥�