University of Pisa & New York University Abu Dhabi
Giovanni Federico is currently professor of Economic History, New York University Abu Dhabi.
He has been professor of Economic History at the European University Institute and at the University of Pisa. He has published An economic history of the silk industry 1800-1938 (Cambridge, 1997), The economic development of Italy, with Jon Cohen (Cambridge, 2000), Feeding the world. An economic History of world agriculture (Princeton, 2005), and edited with Alberto Bisin the Handbook of Historical economics (Amsterdam, 2021). He has written extensively on world trade, globalization and European market integration, as well as on many issues in Italian economic history, including long term growth and its measurement, agriculture, foreign trade and protection, the development of domestic market and the political economy of taxation.