Dr Tiziana Foresti

Staff details

Position Lecturer in Economics

Department Institute of Management Studies

Email T.Foresti (@gold.ac.uk)

Phone +44 (0)20 296 4218

Dr Tiziana Foresti (Ph.D. in History of Economic Thought, University of Florence) joined the Institute of Management Studies in 2019. In the last years she has been pursuing a line of research concerning the quantitative measurement of the value to Italian firms of early political connections with the Fascist regime in the years of Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. In 2014 and in 2015 her research was awarded with an INET grant. She has previously been teaching fellow at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University, ricercatore a tempo determinato in History of economic thought (University of Pisa), post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Statistics of the University of Rome, La Sapienza as well as the recipient of research grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst.

Research Interests

History of North American economic thought between the 1860s and the 1930s
Measurement of political connection and firm value
Theory of positional goods

Publications

Book Section

Fiorito, Luca and Foresti, Tiziana. 2017. Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and Its (Jewish) Discontents. In: Robert Leeson, ed. Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Part X, Eugenics, Cultural Evolution and the Fatal Conceit. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 317-354. ISBN 9783319617138

Foresti, Tiziana. 2017. Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary-Institutional Economics. A Revolutionary Agenda at the Turn of the 20th Century. In: Fabrizio Meroi and Paolo Vanini, eds. Rivoluzioni. Aspetti del pensiero del Novecento. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, pp. 141-154. ISBN 9788846752956

Article

Foresti, Tiziana and Fiorito, Luca. 2019. Herbert J. Davenport on Conspicuous Consumption and the Economics of Feminism. Journal of Economic Issues, 53(1), pp. 277-287. ISSN 0021-3624

Fiorito, Luca and Foresti, Tiziana. 2018. Eugenics and Socialist Thought in the Progressive Era: The case of James Medbery MacKaye. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 40(3), pp. 377-388. ISSN 1053-8372

Foresti, Tiziana. 2017. German Historicism in North America: A New Review of Materials from Henry Walcott Farnam and Jack Carroll Myles. History of Economic Ideas, XXV(1), pp. 51-107. ISSN 1122-8792

Foresti, Tiziana and Sanfilippo, Eleonora. 2017. Keynes’s Personal Investments in the Wheat Futures Markets, 1925-1935. History of Economic Ideas, XXV(2), ISSN 1724-2169

Cook, Simon J and Foresti, Tiziana. 2016. War of the Ghosts: Marshall, Veblen, and Bartlett. History of Political Economy, 48(S1), pp. 44-70. ISSN 0018-2702

Foresti, Tiziana. 2015. Thorstein Veblen on the Intellectual Pre-eminence of Jews: Beyond the Myth of Veblen’s ‘Social Marginality’. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 32, pp. 63-81. ISSN 0743-4154

Foresti, Tiziana. 2014. The first dissemination of German Historicism in North-America: Further Evidence from Richard T. Ely’s Correspondence with Henry W. Farnam. History of Economic Thought and Policy, 2014(1), pp. 151-158. ISSN 2240-9971