ELEONORA SANFILIPPO is Associate Professor of History of Economic Thought and Chair of the Master’s Degree Program in Economics and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. She currently teaches there courses in macroeconomics and history of economic thought. In 2000 she took her PhD in Economics at the University of Siena, Italy. She regularly participates to international conferences on her fields of interests and she is referee and reviewer for international academic journals such as the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, History of Economic Ideas and Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics. She has been for several years a member of the Council of European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), the Committee that is in charge of the attribution of the following Awards: Best Book, Best Article, Young Researcher, Gilles Dostaler and Honorary Member. She is currently a member of the Board of STOREP, the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy.
Main research interests: Keynes’s speculation theory and investment activity; Analysis of the notion of ‘creative goods’ in economics; Interdependencies of preferences in the 19th and 20th century theory of consumption; Period analysis in macroeconomics; Analysis of the Keynesian consumption theory in the light of the modern contributions offered by behavioral economics; Keynes’s ‘liquidity trap’ notion and liquidity preference theory; Archival research on Cambridge economists