Riccardo Puglisi

Researcher at the University of Pavia, he was Marie Curie Fellow at the ECARES centre in Brussels and lectured at the Department of Political Science at MIT and the London School of Economics. He is a columnist for daily Il Sole 24 Ore and writes for www.lavoce.info. His areas of research are economics and politics of the mass media, political economy, the economics of immigration and the science of finance. He recently published: I'm News, Are you? Newspaper Coverage of Elected vs. Appointed Officials (with James M. Snyder, Jr.), in Roumeen Islam (editor); Information and Public Choice: From Media Markets to Policymaking, World Bank Publications (2008). His writings on the political role of the mass media have been quoted in the main economics and political science magazines and by blogs such as the Huffington Post, Freakonomics and Marginal Revolution.