{{Short description|Italian economist and historian, public figure}} [[File:GSI25-1.jpg|thumb|Emanuele Felice at the "Global Innovation South" Forum in Calabria, Italy, July 2025.]] '''Emanuele Felice''' (b. 1977) is an Italian economist and historian, a leading figure in the Italian public debate. He is mostly known for his work, both in scholarly articles and books, about the reconstruction and interpretation of Italy's regional inequality and [[Southern question]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |date=2018-08-14 |title=The roots of a dual equilibrium: GDP, productivity, and structural change in the Italian regions in the long run (1871–2011) |url=https://academic.oup.com/ereh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ereh/hey018/5073301 |journal=European Review of Economic History |language=en |doi=10.1093/ereh/hey018 |issn=1361-4916|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |last2=Vasta |first2=Michelangelo |date=2014-10-28 |title=Passive modernization? The new human development index and its components in Italy's regions (1871–2007) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heu018 |journal=European Review of Economic History |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=44–66 |doi=10.1093/ereh/heu018 |issn=1474-0044|hdl=10.1093/ereh/heu018 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815266101?forcedLocale=it&fbrefresh=CAN_BE_ANYTHING |title=E. FELICE, Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro |date=2016-09-08 |language=it}}</ref> as well as about Italy's long-run economic performance.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815279309?forcedLocale=it&fbrefresh=CAN_BE_ANYTHING |title=E. FELICE, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d'Italia |date=2018-09-06 |language=it}}</ref> More recently, he has been working on the historical relationship between economic growth, ethics and politics, and on the historical roots of liberalism and ecologism.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815273796?forcedLocale=it&fbrefresh=CAN_BE_ANYTHING |title=E. FELICE, An Economic History of Happiness |date=2017-10-26 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815294944?forcedLocale=it&fbrefresh=CAN_BE_ANYTHING |title=E. FELICE, The Quest for Rights. An Idea of History |date=2022-02-10 |language=it}}</ref>
He has served as Head of the Economics Department of Italys' Democratic Party during the covid pandemic (2020-2021),<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-08 |title=L'economista Emanuele Felice è il nuovo responsabile economico del PD |url=https://www.ilpost.it/2020/02/08/emanuele-felice-responsabile-economico-pd/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Il Post |language=it-IT}}</ref> then as a consultant of [[Draghi government|Draghi's]] government (2021-2022).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Consulenti e collaboratori {{!}} Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali |url=https://www.lavoro.gov.it/amministrazione-trasparente/consulenti-collaboratori/pagine/default |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.lavoro.gov.it}}</ref> He has been contributing as editorial writer to [[La Stampa]], [[La Repubblica]] and [[Domani (newspaper)|Domani]].
He is currently professor of [[Economic history]] at [[IULM University of Milan]].
==Biography== A native of [[Lanciano]], he holds a degree in Economics from the [[University of Bologna]], a doctorate in Economic History from the [[University of Pisa]], and then specialized at the London School of Economics, [[Pompeu Fabra University]], and [[Harvard University]].
Since 2022, he has been full professor of economic policy at the [[IULM University of Milan]], where he teaches Economics of Culture and Economic History.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iulm.it/it/iulm/ateneo/docenti-e-collaboratori/Felice-Claudio-Emanuele|title=Felice Claudio Emanuele|website=IULM|language=it|access-date=2023-04-01}}</ref> In 2021 and 2022 he is also a Lecturer at LUISS, [[Luiss University]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.luiss.edu/cattedreonline/corso/T092/0/L21BBBASE/2020|title=Luiss Guido Carli Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Roma|website=Luiss Guido Carli|language=en}}</ref> in Economic History. In 2015 and 2016 he was a columnist for [[La Stampa]], from 2017 to 2020 he was a columnist for La Repubblica and L'Espresso, from 2020 he is a columnist for the daily newspaper [[Domani (newspaper)]].
In 2017, at the age of 40, he was awarded four full professorships (in Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic History, and Contemporary History).
In 2024, he is the curator of the first Critical Economics Festival, organized in Milan by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/partecipa/festivaldelleconomiacritica/|title=Festival dell'Economia Critica 2024|website=Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli|language=it-IT|access-date=2024-09-21}}</ref>
== Books ==
* {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Divari regionali e intervento pubblico: per una rilettura dello sviluppo in Italia |date=2007 |publisher=Il mulino |isbn=978-88-15-11882-0 |series=Ricerca |location=Bologna}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro |date=2016 |publisher=Il Mulino |isbn=978-88-15-26610-1 |edition=2nd |series=Storica paperbacks |location=Bologna |trans-title=Why Southern Italy Is Backward}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Storia economica della felicità |date=2017 |publisher=Il mulino |isbn=978-88-15-27379-6 |series=Intersezioni |location=Bologna |trans-title=An Economic History of Happiness}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Il Sud, l'Italia, l'Europa: diario civile |date=2019 |publisher=Il mulino |isbn=978-88-15-28363-4 |series=Contemporanea |location=Bologna}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Dubai, l'ultima utopia |publisher=Il Mulino |year=2020 |isbn=978-88-15-28592-8 |location=Bologna |trans-title=Dubai: The Last Utopia}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=La conquista dei diritti. Un'idea della storia |publisher=Il mulino |year=2022 |isbn=978-88-15-27930-9 |location=Bologna |trans-title=The Quest for Rights: Interpreting Human History}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Libertà contro libertà. Un duello sulla società aperta |last2=Mingardi |first2=Alberto |publisher=Il Mulino |year=2024 |isbn=978-88-15-38869-8 |location=Bologna |trans-title=Freedom versus freedom. A duel over the open society}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Ascesa e declino. Una storia dell'economia italiana |publisher=Il Mulino |year=2025 |isbn=978-88-15-27930-9 |edition=2nd |location=Bologna |trans-title=Rise and Decline: An Economic History of Italy}} * {{Cite book |last=Felice |first=Emanuele |title=Manifesto per un'altra economia e un'altra politica |publisher=Feltrinelli |year=2025 |isbn=9788807175046 |location=Milan |trans-title=Manifesto for a New Economy and Politics}}
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