VIALE RICCARDO

Role
Former Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Logica e filosofia della scienza (M-FIL/02)
Office phone

Biography

Riccardo Viale is Full Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Economics at the Department of Economics and President of BIB-Behavioral Insights Bicocca of the University of Milano Bicocca. He is also a professor of behavioral economics at the School of Government and at the  School of European Public Economics of LUISS, Rome. In 2019 he was  visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. In 2021 he will be visiting professor at London School of Economics. Sir Karl Popper, Herbert Simon, Raymond Boudon, and Gerd Gigerenzer were the main relationships and references of his research activity.  Lecturer and scholar over the years in various foreign universities and research centers including the universities of Oxford, Columbia, Pennsylvania, California-Santa Barbara and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He is the Founder and Secretary General of the Herbert Simon Society and President of the Cognitive Insights Team at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin. Editor in Chief of Mind & Society (Springer). He is Founder and Secretary General of Triple Helix Association and Founder, President of Scientific Committee and Vice-President of the board of Fondazione Cotec for Innovation.. In the 90’s  he was adviser on research and innovation policy to the Italian Prime Minister and to the Minister of University and Research. From 2010 to 2014 he was Director of  Italian Cultural Institute of New York. He is currently Head of Italy Behavioral Insights Team at Prime Minister Department of Civil Service. He is the author of many books and publications including the forthcoming Handbook on Bounded Rationality (Routledge, 2021) and “Nudging” (The MIT Press, 2021).

Research

Nudging; Behavioral Public Administration and Policy, Behavioral Economics and Finance; Social Neurocognition; Bounded Rationality; Cognitive Models of Reasoning and Decision Making; Cognitive Theory of Science and Technology; Cognitive Economics; Cognitive Anthropology; Epistemology of Social Science; Social Epistemology and Science and Technology Policy; Innovation and Research Policy; Entrepreneurial Behaviour.

Publications

  • Viale, R. (2010). Knowledge driven capitalization of knowledge. In R. Viale, & H. Etzkowitz (a cura di), The capitalization of knowledge: A triple helix of universty-industry-government (pp. 31-73). Edward Elgar. Detail
  • Viale, R. (2018). Oltre il Nudge. Libertà di scelta, benessere e felicità. Bologna : Il Mulino. Detail
  • Macchi, L., Bagassi, M., Viale, R., Mosconi G, Gigerenzer, G., Elqayam, S., et al. (2016). Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (L. Macchi, M. Bagassi, & R. Viale, a cura di). Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press. Detail
  • Viale, R. (2012). Methodological Cognitivism: Vol. 1: Mind, Rationality, and Society. Springer Berlin Heidelberg [10.1007/978-3-642-24743-9]. Detail
  • Simon, H.A., Egidi, M., Viale, R., & Marris, R. (2008). Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution. Cheltenham : Elgar. Detail

Research projects

Community Response and Resilience in Crisis Times (CoRReCT).
Year: 2021
Call: FAQC 2021 - prima finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA
I Comportamenti di Cittadinanza Organizzativa: modelli e incentivi per incrementare il benessere nelle P.A.
Year: 2020
Call: PROGETTI PER UNA NUOVA PUBBLICA AMMINISTRAZIONE - RACCOLTA DI IDEE PER ORIENTARE IL CAMBIAMENTO DELLE AMMINISTRAZIONI PUBBLICHE
Grantors: SCUOLA NAZIONALE DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE

Awards

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & POLICY ASSOCIATION, 2016
  • Segretario - TRIPLE HELIX ASSOCIATION, 2008
  • Responsabile Scientifico - HERBERT SIMON SOCIETY, 2004

Editorial boards

  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - MIND & SOCIETY, 2005
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - SISTEMI INTELLIGENTI, 1989

Management or corporate responsibility

  • Responsabile dell'area cognitivo e comportamentale - Fondazione Cotec, 2004

Research and teaching assignments

  • Visiting Researcher - University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Attivita' didattica - Harvard University, 2016
  • Attivita' didattica - Member of the Faculty of the Summer School - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 2016
  • Visiting Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 2017
  • Professore a contratto - Luiss Libera Università internazionale degli studi sociali Guido Carli, 2009

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - BEHAVIORAL FINANCIAL REGULATIONS AND POLICY(Italia), 2017
  • Program chair - Heurstics in Economics(Spagna), 2017