Marco SANTILLO | Curriculum
Marco SANTILLO Curriculum
Associate Professor of Economic History (SSD: STEC-01/B-STORIA ECONOMICA; GSD: 13/STEC-01-STORIA DELL’ECONOMIA), Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno.
Education and Academic Qualifications
1990: Degree (Laurea) in Economics and Business, 110/110 summa cum laude (Federico II University of Naples, thesis in "History of Economic Analysis").
1991: Appointed Subject Matter Expert (Cultore della materia) in Economic History and Banking History at the Faculty of Economics, Federico II University of Naples; participated in teaching and seminar activities coordinated by prof. Ennio De Simone.
1992–2003: Participation in teaching and research activities coordinated by prof. Anna dell'Orefice within the Department of Theory and History of Public Economy, Federico II University.
1998: Awarded a research fellowship by the Board of Directors of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies to conduct research on economists of Southern Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2003: Began collaboration with "Associazione Studi e Ricerche del Mezzogiorno (SRM)" (Association for Studies and Research on Southern Italy), a company of the San Paolo IMI-Banco di Napoli Group, to conduct research on the Economy and Productive Sectors of Southern Italy.
2003 (July): Winner of the public competition for Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) in Economic History at the Faculty of Economics of Salerno (took office on January 1, 2004).
2007 (September): Passed the evaluation for confirmation in the role of tenured Assistant Professor.
2010: Member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Program in Economics and Management of Public Administrations.
2013: Awarded the "Sele d'Oro Prize" – Special Mention, Economics Section.
2013: Attained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN 2012) as Associate Professor in competition sector 13C1.
2019: Attained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN 2018) as Associate Professor in competition sector 13C1.
2021: Took office as Associate Professor (SECS P/12 – Economic History).
Memberships
1998–present: Member of the Italian Society of Economic Historians (SISE).
2023–present: Member of the Board of Auditors of SISE.
2017–present: Member of the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE).
2018–present: Member of the Italian Association for Industrial Archaeological Heritage (AIPAI).
2018–present: Member of the Interuniversity Documentation Center on Italian Economic Thought (CIPEI).
2013–present: Member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Laboratory of Agri-food Economics, Transport, and Tourism (LABEATT).
2010–present: Member of the Center for Economic and Labor Policy Evaluation of the University of Salerno (CELPE).
2024–present: Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of the journal “Il Rinnovamento”.
2024–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal “SINTESI”.
2024–present: Member of the Editorial Board of the SVIMEZ journal “Rivista Economica del Mezzogiorno”.
Teaching Activity
2004–present: Course Chair of Economic History in the Bachelor's degree programs (Corsi di Laurea Triennale) in "Business Administration", "Economics and Business", and "Management of Public Administrations".
2022–present: Course Chair (shared with prof. Aldo Montaudo) of Economic History of Tourism in the Bachelor's degree program in "Tourism Economics".
2021–2023: Course Chair of Economics of Productive Sectors in the Master's degree program (Corso di Laurea Magistrale) in "Economics".
2020–2021: Course Chair of History of Economic Development in the Bachelor's degree program in "Political Science and International Relations".
2016–2019: Course Chair of History of Public Economic Intervention in the Master's degree program in "Business Consulting and Management".
2009–2015: Course Chair of Economic History of Public Intervention in the Master's degree program in "Business Consulting and Management".
1999–2003: Adjunct Professor of Economic History at the Faculty of Economics, Federico II University of Naples.
Other Teaching Activities
2019: Lecture series on "International Economics" – Advanced Training Course in International Administration for Export Managers (DEMM Department, UNISAnnio).
2018: Lecture series on "International Economics" – Advanced Training Course in International Administration for Export Managers (DEMM Department, UNISAnnio).
2016: Lecture series on "Global Scenario and National Differences in Political Economy" – Advanced Training Course for the International Business Academy (DEMM Department, UNISAnnio).
2015: Lecture series on "International Markets and Consumer Behavior" – Advanced Training Course for Export Managers (DEMM Department, UNISAnnio).
2014: Lecture series on "Theory and Economics in International Trade" – Advanced Training Course for Business Internationalization (DEMM Department, UNISAnnio).
Other Activities at the University of Salerno
2011–present: Member of the Editorial Committee for Publications of the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno.
2019–present: Department Director's Delegate for the development of the teaching logistics platform.
2008–2016: Member of the University Commission (Area 13) for the Allocation of FARB Research Funds.
2008–2014: Member of the Faculty Commission for Guidance and Curriculum Review.
Coordination of Research Groups (FARB Funds)
2025: "Policies for the industrialization of Southern Italy: a research path between internationalization profiles and the role of the ruling class."
2024: "Territorial divides and rebalancing policies in the post-war years and the golden age: reinterpreting an experience and an innovative model of public intervention for depressed areas."
2023: "The scientific and value crisis of the Manchester capitalist model: new scenarios of the market economy between slowbalisation and renewed attention to the social economy."
2022: "Economists during the fascist twenty-year period: between productivist demands and profiles of social market economy."
2021: "The theme of technical and vocational education: a historical-comparative investigation from Unification to the Next Generation."
2020: "Exchange rate policy measures and Italy's international trade in the second post-war period."
2019: "Inequalities and socio-economic gaps in the Italian experience: a focus on Southern Italy."
2018: "Historical-evolutionary outlines of the Italian and Southern agri-food industry from the twentieth century to the third millennium."
2017: "The modernity of social market economy, ordoliberalism, and civil economy: a diachronic and comparative approach."
2016: "Gaetano Filangieri and power in economics: the relevance of his lesson."
2015: "The electricity sector in Southern Italy in the first two decades of the 20th century: between ‘resistance’ and opportunities for innovation and development."
2014: "Evolutionary trends and innovations of the Italian and Southern economy in the first thirty years of the 1900s. A path-dependency approach between ‘War Economy’ and ‘Military Industrial Complex’."
2013: "The ‘Cassa per opere straordinarie di pubblico interesse nell’Italia meridionale’ (Fund for Extraordinary Public Works in Southern Italy): an experience to be re-evaluated."
2012: "Gift economy, civil economy, and profiles of reciprocity: a historical-economic and comparative reconstruction."
2011: "Public intervention in Southern Italy before and after the Republic. The formation and driving role of the ruling class for the socio-economic development of the southern regions."
2010: "Public intervention in Southern Italy in Republican Italy. The genesis and driving role of the ruling class."
2009: "Reconstruction and analysis of Italian migratory flows from a historical-economic perspective."
2008: "Dimensional profiles, development paths, and crises of the Italian industrial system from the early 1900s to the present. The role of public and private entrepreneurship and government policies."
2007: "The new frontiers of development: Filangieri's institutional project of an integrated museum-school-workshop system as a driver for economic and social growth in Southern Italy after Unification."
2006: "Technical and professional training as a lever for industrial development: problems and opportunities in post-unification Southern Italy."
Other Research Experiences
2026: Research assignment from "Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno" (SRM) [topic unspecified in original text].
2022: Research staff member, Unit 1 PRIN 2022 (P.I. prof. Vittorio Daniele): "The assessment of regional development policies in Italy through a new database (1950s-2000s)".
2020: Research assignment from "Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno" (SRM), on the topic of Logistics Supply Chains.
2016: Research assignment from "Unioncamere" for contributing to the drafting of the National Observatory of Italian Districts – 2015 Report.
2012–2016: Member of the Working Group established at SVIMEZ for the recovery and enhancement of the Archive of the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno.
2012–present: Editorial collaboration with "Quaderni di Economia Sociale" (at Fondazione con il Sud).
2011: Research assignment from "Fondazione Mezzogiorno Europa", on the topic "Emerging markets and international strategies of Neapolitan SMEs".
2010–2011: Research assignment from "Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno" (SRM), on the topic "Financing mechanisms of the Third Sector: the economic and social role of donations in Southern Italy".
2009: Research assignment from "Consorzio Universitario di Economia industriale e manageriale" (CUEIM), on the topic "Research, Training, Assistance, and Business Promotion for strengthening the Textile-Apparel production chain in Campania".
2009: Research assignment from "Confindustria Salerno", on the topic "From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century. Industry in the Province of Salerno."
2008–2009: Research assignment from "Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno" (SRM), on the topic "Immigration and social integration. Analysis of socio-economic dynamics and related critical issues in the Southern territory."
2007–2008: Research assignment from "Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno" (SRM), on the topic "Non-Profit and Hospital Care".
2006–2008: Research staff member, PRIN 2005 (P.I. Profs. Sergio Cherubini, Riccardo Resciniti): "Customer experience-oriented event management and its socio-economic evaluation: theoretical model and applications."
Conference Presentations (as Speaker)
2026: "The Vocation of the Economist, the Work of Man: Ten Years in Memory of Pier Luigi Porta", International Conference organized by Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations Strategies, 29 January 2026, Polo Lionello Bonfanti, Burchio - Florence, Italy.
2025: "Regional divides, development policies and economic impacts in Italy. A new long-term perspective (1950-2024)", Catanzaro-Naples, 24-26 September 2026, International Conference organized within the framework of PRIN 2022 "Regional development policies in Italy since 1950s: An economic history perspective".
2025: "Public intervention for Southern Italy in the second half of the twentieth century: between historical constraints and innovation", International Conference funded by MUR and co-funded by the EU through the NextGenerationEU program, "State Intervention in the Economy and Human Well-being in Contemporary Italy", Macerata, 28-29 May 2025.
2024: "Bridging the gap. The birth of the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno in the international context", International Conference "Regional Economic Integration and Multilateralism in Historical Perspective", Roma Tre University, 3-5 October 2024 (Session "Southern Italy put to the test of programming", organized within the framework of PRIN "The assessment of regional development policies in Italy through a new database (1950s-2000s)").
2023: "The driving role of Southern-focused ruling classes for the industrialization of Southern Italy", International Conference "Centers, Peripheries, Networks, People, Goods and Ideas in motion in Economic History", University of Palermo, 19-21 October 2023.
2023: "Archives and business memory in Southern Italy: balances and perspectives", L'Orientale University, Naples, 22-23 September 2023.
2023: "The Third Sector: a new ‘intermediate body’ for the mitigation of territorial divides and the growth of social capital", International Conference "The European Space. Geo-economic balances and power in the long run", Milan, Università Cattolica, 22-24 June 2023.
2022: "Sergio Paronetto's reflection during the Fascist twenty-year period: between spirituality, productivism, and heterogony of ends", International Conference "An economic laboratory of fascism: the ‘School of Corporative Sciences’ of the University of Pisa (1928-1944)", Pisa, 23 June 2022.
2022: "The ‘La Doria’ group: an ante litteram example of an ‘intangible approach’ to target markets", 2nd General States of Industrial Heritage, International Conference, Rome-Tivoli, 9-11 June 2022.
2021: "Exchange rate policy and international trade issues in the early years of Reconstruction", International Conference "Institutions and economic and social changes. Italy and Europe in the international context in a historical perspective", 4-5-6 November 2021 (online).
2021: "The principles of economic ethics in the Italian experience: between historical tradition and current scenarios", International Conference "Institutions and economic and social changes. Italy and Europe in the international context in a historical perspective", 4-5-6 November 2021 (online).
2019: "Technical and vocational education in Italy after unification: a focus on Southern Italy", Örebro University-University of Siena Conference "Education and economic development: multidisciplinary workshop on the history of education in Italy", University of Rome Tor Vergata, 12–13 December 2019.
2019: "Agri-food in the South: a sector with a high international vocation and export-oriented", ASSI Conference "Competing on international markets. From the world economy to globalization", Milan, Bocconi University, 11-12 December 2019.
2019: "The Pio Monte della Misericordia of Naples: heritage management and accounting evidence", 6th International Conference on Luca Pacioli in Accounting History "General States of Public and Private Accounting", Naples, 7-8-9 November 2019.
2019: "The issue of inequality and socio-economic gaps in modern Italian history", International Conference "The rise of economic inequality. Contribution from the history of the social sciences", University of Bologna, 12-13 April 2019.
2018: "Marzotto Sud: ‘fragments’ of an experience to be preserved in industrial archaeological heritage", International Conference of Studies General State of Industrial Heritage, Venice-Padua, 25-27 October 2018.
2018: "Ezio Vanoni: early economic policy studies during the ‘twenty-year period’ as premises for the establishment of a strongly ethically and civilly oriented model of economy", AISPE Conference "Italian economic science during fascism: an institutional profile", Pisa, 13-15 December 2018.
2018 (with Roberto Rossi): "Between family business and corporation: the case of ‘La Doria S.p.a.’", International Scientific Conference "The agri-food sector in the history of the European economy", Brescia, 21-22 September 2018.
2017: "New forms of social market economy and civil economy: a diachronic and comparative approach", International Conference of Studies "Towards a Comparative History of Economic Thought", Rome, International University of Languages and Media (UNINT) - Roma Tre University, 23-25 November 2017.
2017: "The driving action of Giuseppe Cenzato in the first half of the 20th century for the industrialization of the South and the training of managers", ASSI Conference "Entrepreneurs and managers in economic history", Milan, Bocconi University, 6-7 October 2017.
2016: "The state of the economy in the Salerno area: a snapshot in motion", Study Day "After the Crisis. The southern and local economy in the Global Market", Monte S. Giacomo (SA), 6 December 2016.
2016: "The limits of power in the theoretical system of Gaetano Filangieri", Study Conference "Power in the history of economic thought", University of Salento, 28-30 April 2016.
2015: "Public assistance and charity in Southern Italy: from the Charity System to Friendly Societies to Non-Profit", in "The Route of Ulysses", Study Day in memory of Valdo D’Arienzo, University of Salerno, 25 September 2015.
2014: "Riccardo Bachi: the ‘besieged city’ as a metaphor for the war economy", Study Conference "Economists and War", University of Pisa, 11-13 December 2014.
2013: "The implementation of CASMEZ: the stages of a long-term process", Study Seminar on "The Cassa per il Mezzogiorno. From safeguarding the Archive to promoting research", Historical Archive of the Presidency of the Republic, Rome, 20 April 2013.
2013: "The entrepreneurial experience of Marzotto Sud", International Conference of Studies "Historical Enterprises and Business Histories", University of Sannio, 2-3 December 2013.
2013: "The historiographical debate on the Tavoliere question", Study Conference "Facts and thought in the history of economics", University of Florence, 21-23 February 2013.
2011:"The debate on technical-vocational education in Southern Italy before and after Unification. From the ‘Mazzetti Project’ to the implementation of the Filangieri institutions", Study Conference "Italian economists and the formation of the unified State (1850-1900)", Pisa, 1-3 December 2011.
2010:"The ‘paper, paper converting, and graphics’ sector in the Salerno area: a deeply rooted local industry", Study Conference "On History: Gabriele De Rosa and the University of Salerno", University of Salerno, 4 November 2010.
2009:"Domenico Demarco and the ‘Murat statistics’", Study Conference "The thought and work of Domenico Demarco", Federico II University of Naples, 1 April 2009.
2008: "Made in Italy: an ‘Italian way’ to integration in the third industrial revolution?", in Study Conference "Entrepreneurship and economic development: the Italian case (13th-20th centuries)", Bocconi University of Milan, 14-15 November 2008.
2006: "Ezio Vanoni's contribution to the debate on the post-war monetary question: between pragmatism and eclecticism", Study Conference "Ezio Vanoni, between Political Economy, Culture, and Finance", Salerno-Amalfi, October 2006.
2004: "Alcide De Gasperi's work for Italy's reintegration into the international economic ‘concert’: the trip to Washington in January 1947", Study Conference "Alcide De Gasperi in the history of Republican Italy fifty years after his death", Salerno, 28-30 October 2004.
2004: "Assistance and public charity in Southern Italy between the modern and contemporary eras. The experience of the ‘Stabilimento di S. Eligio’", Study Conference "Assistance, social security, and mutuality in the modern and contemporary South", Benevento, 1-2 October 2004.
2003: "The premises of programming in Pasquale Saraceno's theoretical system: from ‘First Aid Plans’ to the ‘Marshall Plan’", Study Conference "Culture, State, and Southern Italy in the thought of Pasquale Saraceno", Salerno-Paestum, 2-4 October 2003.
2002: "The querelle between Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi and Sismonde de Sismondi on the ‘Tavoliere system’", Study Conference "Transhumance in the Economy of Irpinia in the Modern Age", Andretta, 21-22 June 2001.
1999: "Matteo De Augustinis' contribution to the debate on the public education reform project", Study Conference "Matteo De Augustinis, economist, educator, and jurist of the 19th-century South", Salerno - Felitto, 30 September - 1, 2 October 1999.
1995: "Agostino Magliani and the decree abolishing the forced currency course", Study Conference "Politics, economy, administration, and finance in the work of Agostino Magliani", Salerno - Laurino, 11-13 October 1995.
Conference Organization & Committees
2026: Member of the Organizing Committee for a dedicated session at the 3rd General States of Industrial Heritage, International Conference, Bari-Matera-Lecce, 5-8 October 2026.
2025: Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference "Regional divides, development policies and economic impacts in Italy. A new long-term perspective (1950-2024)", Catanzaro-Naples, 24-26 September 2026.
2024: Member of the Organizing Committee for the PRIN Session at the International Conference "Regional Economic Integration and Multilateralism in Historical Perspective", XVII AISPE Conference, Roma Tre University, October 3-5, 2024.
2023: Member of the Organizing Committee for dedicated sessions at the International Conference "Centers, Peripheries, Networks, People, Goods and Ideas in motion in Economic History", University of Palermo, 19-21 October 2023.
2023: Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference "The European Space. Geo-economic balances and power in the long run", Milan, Università Cattolica, 22-24 June 2023.
2019: Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference "Between History, Economics, and Finance. Public and private accounting in Europe in the Modern and Contemporary Era", International Conference on Accounting History, held at Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples.
2014–2015: Member of the Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee of the Study Conference "Economic History and Business History. Archival Sources, New Methods, and Storytelling", organized as part of the XIII Business Culture Week. Culture of Industry / Culture for Industry - Towards Expo 2015 (by Enel, Confindustria, Museimpresa), held at the Enel Historical Archive, Naples.
2013–2014: Organized "The origins of intervention in Southern Italy, its perspectives, and the international context", as part of the XII Business Culture Week (by Enel, Confindustria, Museimpresa), held at the Enel Historical Archive, Naples.
Language Skills
Italian: Native speaker
French: Fluent
English: Basic knowledge
