Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi

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Valentina Erasmo

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Currently a post-doc research fellow at the University of Torino. Among her research interests are the capability approach (origins and development of the CA and further extensions of the capabilities conception of the individual in economics), the analysis of economics’ interfield connections, and the history of American economic thought (Progressive Era). In 2021, the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) awarded her the Frederic Lee Early Career Prize for the best paper presented by a young researcher at the AHE 2021 International Conference. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the History of Economics Society.

She is the Twitter master of Societies for the History of Economics (SHoET), a joint initiative of the History of Economics Society and the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), and the Twitter master for the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE). She is a member of the “Economy of Francesco Foundation” Scientific Committee. She has published in international journals, such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.