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Emiliano Brancaccio (Naples, Italy, 1971) is a researcher in Political economy and lecturer on Macroeconomics and Labour economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Studies of Sannio University in Benevento. In the academic field, he is the author of a synthesis of two of the primary schools in the critique of economic theory and policy, namely the “surplus” approach and “monetary circuit” approach. His area of study also encompasses banking systems, financial markets and speculation, Italian and European economic policy and epistemology.
In 2002 he wrote the bill proposed by ATTAC for a levy on currency transactions modelled on the Tobin tax. He is also a member of the economic council of the FIOM-CGIL trade union and the author of various articles of a popularising nature published in newspapers and magazines.
This site presents teaching, popularising and research materials produced over the last few years. Texts in English can be downloaded here.
POPULAR WORKS
A “labour standard” against the black wave
(European Left executive board meeting, 18-18 aprile 2009)
A world of low wages
(Monthly Review On Line - October 2008)
(original version published on il manifesto, 14 march 2002)
RESEARCH
Solvency and labour effort in a monetary theory of reproduction
(complete version published in EJESS 2/2008)
The central banker as regulator of conflict
(complete version published in Fontana and Setterfield, Macmillan 2009)
On the impossibility of reducing the surplus approach….
(draft; final version forthcoming on Review of Political Economy)