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Luigi Bonatti is professor of economics at the University of Trento (Italy). He studied philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) and got his Ph.D in economics at Columbia University (USA). In his career, he had a number of fellowships and stayed as visiting in various universities, receiving an award for the results achieved with the NATO-CNR advanced fellowships that he got in 1986 and 1987, and the "Ezio Tarantelli Award" for the best paper of 1996 from the Italian Association of Labor Economists. Recently, he published articles in refereed journals on growth theory, macroeconomics, international economics, labor economics, rationality and public choice, environmental economics.
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. He taught economics at Harvard from 1965 to 1973 and at the University of Massachusetts, where he is now emeritus professor. His recent studies on cultural and genetic evolution have challenged the conventional economic assumption that people are motivated entirely by self-interest. These have included the mathematical modeling and agent-based computer simulations of the evolution of altruistic behaviors and behavioral experiments in 15 hunter-gather and other small-scale societies. Recent papers have also explored how organizations, communities and nations could be better governed in light of the fact that altruistic and ethical motives are common in most populations. Bowles' current research also includes theoretical and empirical studies of political hierarchy and wealth inequality and their evolution over the very long run.
Rosaria Conte is head of the LABSS (Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation) at the ISTC (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology),
and teaches Social Psychology at the University of Siena.
Dan Friedman's 1977 dissertation on market dynamics (supervised by Stephen Smale) earned him a Mathematics PhD from University of California, Santa Cruz. He learned something about real-world finance and economics from two years at Bank of America, and then began his academic career at UCLA. He joined the UCSC Economics Department in 1985. Best known for his work in evolutionary game theory and laboratory markets, Dan is currently investigating e-commerce market institutions and the evolutionary foundations of behavioral economics.
Simon Gaetcher joined the University of Nottingham in February 2005. He is Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making. He received his doctorate in Economics in Vienna. Before coming to Nottingham he worked at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, Zurich, and St. Gallen. He is also affiliated with the CESifo network (Munich), the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA Bonn), and the MacArthur Research Network on Norms and Preferences. His research interests are in the area of behavioural and experimental economics, organisational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently, his main research interests are on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, and on the interplay of material and psychological incentives in incentive provision. He has published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Science, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Management Science. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Psychology
Werner Güth has studied economics at the University of Münster (1965 - 1970) where he finished his doctoral dissertation (1972) and habilitation (1976). He was professor for economic theory of the University of Cologne (1977 - 1986), the University of Frankfurt (Main) (1986 - 1994) and Humboldt-University of Berlin (1994 - 2001) before becoming the director of the Strategic Interaction Group in 2001. His main research topics are game theory, experimental economics and microeconomics. He considers himself more as a social scientist with strong interests in psychology, philosophy, (evolutionary) biology and the political sciences.
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.
Luigi Mittone is member of the Italian Economic Society; member of the Italian Public Economic Society, member of the Italian Association of Health Economics, member of the International Association of Research in Economic Psychology, member of the Italian Labour Economic Association, President of TECS (Tecnologie per l’Economia Sperimentale e Computazionale).
Ugo Pagano is Director of the Doctoral School in Economics, President of the Graduate School S. Chiara at the University of Siena and Visiting Professor at Central European University. He got is PhD at the University of Cambridge where he was also University Lecturer and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His research interests include bioeconomics, institutional economics, law and economics and the economics of globalization.
Peter J. Richerson Is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California—Davis. His research focuses on the processes of cultural evolution. His 1985 book with Robert Boyd, Culture and the Evolutionary Process, applied the mathematical tools used by organic evolutionists to study a number of basic problems in human cultural evolution. His recent books with Boyd include Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, an introduction to cultural evolution aimed at a broad audience and The Origins and Evolution of Cultures, a compendium of their more important papers and book chapters. His recent publications used theoretical models to try to understand some of the main events in human evolution, such as the evolution of the advanced capacity for imitation (and hence cumulative cultural evolution) in humans, the origins of tribal and larger scale cooperation, and the origins of agriculture. He collaborates with Richard McElreath and Mark Lubell in an NSF funded research group devoted to the study of cultural transmission and cultural evolution in laboratory systems. His current projects include work with Charles Efferson on models of human evolution using the Lotka-Volterra formalism borrowed from ecology and a book with Joe Henrich on the evolution of human social organization.
Enrico Zaninotto is professor of Business Economics at the University of Trento. He was educated at the University of Venice and at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve. He joined the University of Trento in 1994, after the University of Venice and the University L. Bocconi of Milan. At the University of Trento he leaded the Rock, group of Research on Organisation, Coordination and Knowledge. He published papers on production theory, standard diffusion and modularization. Current research is focussed on two main topics: coordination theory and entrepreneurship and firm dynamics.
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