Short Bio-data of Professor Francesco Vigliarolo:

Professor Francesco Vigliarolo

Francesco Vigliarolo is a Prof. holder of regional economics at the Catholic University of La Plata and social economist. Ph.D. in Social Sciences, specialization in economic sociology and Master's degree in sustainable development. He is also an Associate Researcher at the CESOT (Center for the Study of Sociology of Work) of the University of Buenos Aires. At the National University of La Plata he has been Director of the Free Chair in “Economic Systems and Human Rights” which he transformed into a UNESCO Chair that he currently coordinates. From 2008 to 2015 he has worked at the University of San Martin where he promoted and projected the first Master funded entirely with European funds in “Democratization and Human Rights”. Before moving to Argentina to study social responses to the financial crisis of 2001, in Italy he worked at the University of Ferrara where he was coordinator of some Master's degrees, including Social Economy and Non-Profit Organizations and Social Economy and International Cooperation. , serving as Professor of Social Economy and Methodology and technique of social research. Always in Italy, he has also been Director of CIPSI, a Federation of 45 NGOs present in more than 60 countries around the world. With his research, he is interested in local development processes as the construction of territorial identities that imply the affirmation of rights (ontological reason) through the strengthening of associative and democratic forms of production. In this direction, he bases what he calls an “economic phenomenology” that aims to observe the economy from the relationship between subjects and materiality that presupposes “functions, ideas, concepts” and the affirmation of the “relational rights of a democratic society.” , which defines an ontological reason as opposed to utilitarian reason. He published several books and scientific articles where he develops concepts such as “ethical social capital”, “socialization and economic democratization”, “demand for people's rights”, “meso-economics” and “the principles of economic phenomenology”. Among his latest books are “The economy is a social phenomenon. Principles of economic phenomenology” (2019) published with Eudeba, “Lupi e agnelli. Societá capitaiste e vie d'uscita” (2017) published with Jaca Book.