PEOPLE

Research Director: Andrea Attar (CNRS-Toulouse School of Economics e Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

Scientific Heads: Andrea Attar, Felix Bierbrauer (Koln University), Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University)

Scientific Committee: Claude d’Aspremont (Université Catholique de Louvain), Herakles Polemarchakis (Warwick University), Jean Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics), John Roemer (Yale University),

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The discipline of economics occupies a central role in the social sciences. Its conclusions are a key reference in public discussions. From a theoretical point of view, however, the foundations of the discipline appear far from being unambiguously established. Its basic prescriptions rest on assumptions which still deserve to be more fully understood and explicitly discussed. The MGTA initiative attempts at reexamining a very classic theme in economic thought, the tension between markets and governments, from the perspective of contemporary economic theory.

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RESEARCH AREAS

The MGTA initiative has been directed towards the organization of a summer school. The first two editions featured over 300 applications and 100 participants from all over the world -- largely PhD students and early career researchers but more senior scholars also attend regularly. The programs of the first two editions can be found here:

The school aims to develop a critical discussion of the foundations of contemporary economic theory and policy, and its links to the social sciences, particularly political philosophy. 

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

MGTA is developed in collaboration with the TSM-CNRS group (https://tsm-education.fr/), the Econtribute initiative at the university of Koln (https://econtribute.de/), the Department of Economics and Finance at Tor Vergata (https://economia.uniroma2.it/def) and CEIS.

PUBLICATIONS

We are in the process of making available all  lectures from the first two editions of the school.