Roberto Scazzieri is Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Bologna. He is also Senior Member of Gonville and Caius College and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. His research interests cover the theory of production, structural economic dynamics, the economic theory of institutions and organisation, the epistemology of economics, and the history of economic analysis. He is a Fellow of the National Lincei Academy, Rome, which in 2004 awarded him the Economics Linceo Prize for his contribution to structural economic analysis.