Diversity in the Economic Thought

Diversity in the Economic Thought
January 30, 2026
Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche
AULA III, terzo piano, edificio CU002

9:30 Welcome address (Marcella Corsi)
10:00 – 13:00 I session (chairperson: Carlo D’Ippoliti)
Angela Ambrosino, Reimagining Economics Education with AI: Creating Space for
Pluralism and Heterodox Perspectives
Maria Bach, Rethinking Economics: Why Diverse Economic Perspectives Shape
Tomorrow’s Ideas
Giuliana Freschi, Women in the Making of Practical Knowledge: An Exploration
Manuela Mosca e Claudia Sunna, The Economic Thought of Italian Women (1750-
1999)
Claudia Rotondi, Women and Work: Insights from the Galaxy of Women’s Political
Magazines (1944–1950)
Attilio Trezzini, Unseen, Uncounted, Unstudied: LGBT Diversity and Its Belated Entry
into Economics
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
15:00 – 18:30 II session (chairperson: Giulia Zacchia)
Nina Banks, Sadie T.M. Alexander and Black Women’s Unseen Work in Theory and
Practice
Giandomenica Becchio, Archival Material and Oral Reminiscences in Building up
Biographies: The Case of Barbara Bergmann and Lillian Wald
Francesco Sergi, Oral Histories and Diversity of Economics
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, Latin American Women Economists: The Case of Two
Venezuelan Ministers of Economy in the 1960s
Danielle Guizzo, Herstories and Pluralism in Economics
Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky, Cooperative Systems as a Requirement for Full
Gender Equality: Anna Doyle Wheeler’s Contribution from Early 19th Century
British Thought (ONLINE)
Lorena Valle Cuéllar and Sarah Small, Histories of Feminist Macroeconomics
(ONLINE)