Ignazio Musu

Currently Emeritus Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Past research and teaching positions:
1970, Visiting scholar, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, England; 1971-72, Visiting scholar, Department of Economics, Yale University, USA; 1973-1975, Associate professor of Economics University of Padua; 1976-2011: Full Professor of Economics and Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; 1997: Visiting Professor of Macroeconomics, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; 1998-2002: Visiting Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics. John Hopkins University, Bologna Center, Italy.

Past Academic Positions:
1980-86, Dean of the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; 1990-93, Vice President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists; 1993-99, Member of Academic Senate, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; 1998-2001, Vice-President of the Italian Economic Association; 1999-2005, Dean of Venice International University; 2005-2020, Member of the Advisory Board of the Bank of Italy

Present Academic and Scientific positions:
President of TEN (Thematic Environmental Networks) Center at the Venice International University; member of the Venetian Advisory Board of the Bank of Italy; member of “Accademia dei Lincei” and “Istituto Veneto per le Scienze, Lettere ed Arti”.

Research fields: Environmental and Resource Economics;
Growth and Development Economics; Economics of China.

Selected Publications

Books

Introduzione alla Teoria della Crescita Endogena (con Guido Cazzavillan), Laterza, Bari, 1997.

Introduzione all’economia dell’ambiente, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003, pp.238

Crescita Economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007, pp. 170

Cina: la sfida dello sviluppo sostenibile, Mondo Cinese, Francesco Brioschi Editore, Milano,  n.1, 2010, pp. 17-28. 

La Cina contemporanea. Economia e società: le grandi sfide, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

Il debito pubblico, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012, pp. 133.

Recent articles and working papers.

Economic Challenges of Anthropocene, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics WP 18/13, 2013

Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics WP 20/13, 2013

Crescita economica: una sfida alla sostenibilità, in “Natura e capitalismo: un conflitto da evitare”, a cura di P.Ciocca e I.Musu, LUISS University Press, 2013, pp. 59-94.

Analisi economica e beni comuni ambientali, in “Beni comuni e cooperazione” a cura di Lorenzo Sacconi e Stefania Ottone, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015, pp. 123-143.

Esternalità, in “Il sistema imperfetto. Difetti del mercato, risposte dello Stato”, a cura di P.Ciocca e I.Musu, LUISS University Press, 2016, pp. 63-81.

The difficult path to a sustainable economic growth, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics WP 12/2017.

Eredi di Mao, Economia, società e politica nella Cina di Xi Jinping Donzelli, Roma, 2018.

"Economia", Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, X appendice, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, pp. 488-492.