Alberto Bagnai (born 10 December 1962) is an Italian politician and economist.

Biography

Bagnai was born in 1962 in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

. After moving to Rome in 1971, he studied economy at the Department of Public Economics of the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

. In 1989, he graduated in economics and commerce at the age of 27, with an econometrics thesis on "Procedures for the Estimation and Verification of Econometric Hypotheses". He then discussed a PhD thesis in Economics in 1994 with a dissertation on "Sustainability and Dynamic Pathways of Public Debt in Italy". In 2005, Bagnai became associate professor of economic policy at the Faculty of Economics of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara. Since 2012, he is associate researcher at CREAM at the University of Rouen Normandy, and since 2013 has been a member of the board of the International Network for Economic Research. In the same year, he formed the Italian Association for the Study of Economic Asymmetries, which he currently chairs. In 2012, Bagnai published ''Il tramonto dell'euro'' (''The Decline of the Euro''). With a strongly Eurosceptic and anti-globalist orientation, Bagnai calls himself a

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economist, and adheres to the orthodox vision expressed by economists such as

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, and Martin Feldstein, according to which there are no structural assumptions for Europe to equip itself of a single currency. Bagnai also defines himself as a

left-wing populist Left-wing populism, also called social populism, is a political ideology that combines left-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric often consists of anti- elitism, opposition to the Establishment, and speaking for the "com ...

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/ref> In 2014, Bagnai published ''L'Italia può farcela'' ("Italy Can Do It"). In the

2018 Italian general election The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective member ...

, he was elected senator among the ranks of the Lega party, and in 2020 was nominated the economic and finance responsable of the party by the party's secretary

Matteo Salvini Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord (Northern League) party s ...

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