Marco Veronese Passarella is a professor of economics at Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L’Aquila, where he teaches and conducts research on macroeconomics, economic modeling, monetary economics, and theory of value and distribution.
In addition, Marco leads and coordinates the WP5 of the EU-funded project A JUst Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE) at the University of Leeds. He is a senior visiting research fellow at Angelo King Institute of the De La Salle University of Manila. Lastly, Marco is a member of the “Collegio dei Docenti” of the PhD Programme in Social Sciences at the University of Padua.
While Marco was trained in neoclassical economics, he has since questioned the dominant (individual scarcity-based) approach and instead advocates for a macro-monetary reproduction paradigm. Marco's economics pantheon includes a diverse range of scholars, such as David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Michal Kalecki, Piero Sraffa, Hyman Minsky, Richard Goodwin, Paolo Sylos-Labini, Wynne Godley, and Augusto Graziani.
Marco is an active member of several academic societies, including Economia e Politica, Reteaching Economics, the Italian Post-Keynesian Network, and the Post-Keynesian Economics Society.