Gallery of Testimonials

1. Gallery of Testimonials Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

2. Testimonials • Adam Smith • Alexis de Tocqueville • Charles Dickens • Karl Marx • Samul Smiles • Winston Churchill • John Keynes • Thomas Sowell • Joseph Schumpeter • Eric Hoffer • Deng Xiaoping • Thomas Friedman • Naomi Klein • Riccardo Bellofiore • Jeanette Winterson • Luigi Zingales

3. Adam Smith (1723-1790) • Scottish social philosopher, pioneer of political economy • father of modern economics and capitalism Reference text: The Wealth of Nations Focus: Capitalism • Cross cultural references:investigation of the causes of wealth aiming at the substitution of industrial freedom for a system of restriction • Critical thinking: Capitalism, Political Economy, causes of wealth

4. Alexis de Tocqueville(1805-1859) • French Political thinker and historian • Liberal position about democracy • Reference text: Journey to England and Ireland(1835) • Focus: Manchester • Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels • Critical thinking: Alienation, exploitation, industrialization, inequal distribution of wealth, bad working condition, double nature of capitalism, utilitarism

5. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) • English Victorian novelist • remarkable characters • superb telling technique • symbolic portraitsocial class contrast • Reference text: Hard Times (1854) •  • Utilitarianism • Focus:Coketown • Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee • Critical thinking: social rift, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class - capitalists

6. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 -1883) • German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist • Critical of his contemporary economy, politic, society and culture Reference text: Das Kapital(1867) • Focus:Capitalism • Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, F. Engels, Luigi Zingales • Critical thinking: industrialization, unequal distribution of wealth, money creates wealth

7. Samuel Smiles (1812 –1904) Scottish author and reformer. Reference text: Thrift (1875) Focus: Capitalism Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter Critical thinking: Industrialization, metaphor of the multi – faceted nature of capitalism

8. Winston Churchill(1874-1965) • British Conservative Politician • statesman and orator, Nobel Prize for Literature • twice Prime Minister (1940–45 and 1951–55) • officer in the British Army • historian, writer, artist • he received the Nobel Prize in Literature Reference: Sir W. Churchill Quotes • Focus: Capitalism • Cross cultural references:powerful command of the English language, literature • Critical thinking: capitalism, socialism, blessing, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class, army

9. John Maynard Keynes(1883 – 1946) • British economist • He is considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics, and the most influential economist of the 20th century. • His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics Reference text: The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (1936) • Focus: Capitalism and direct interventions • Cross cultural references: R. Bellofiore • Critical thinking: industrialization, Keynesianism, direct intervention on financial problems

10. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 -1950) • An Austrian American economist and political scientist. • Popularized "creative destruction" in economics • Reference text: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy • Focus: Capitalism • Cross cultural references: K. Marx, L. Zingales, R. Bellofiore • Critical thinking: industrialization, the European financial situation, creative destruction

11. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) • American social writer • He was the author of ten books • He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 • Reference text: (1971) • Focus: Capitalism • Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, • A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, • Critical thinking: corruption of business and • capitalism

12. Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997) • Politician and reformist leader of the • Communist Party of China • led China towards a market economy. • Reference: Deng Xiaoping quotes • Focus: Capitalism • Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter • Critical thinking: market economy, to be rich is gloriouos because it gave power and wealth

13. Thomas Sowell (1930) • American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author • conservative thinker of the late 20th century • America's leading philosopher • seminal study on the role of Race in history • explain the principles underlying modern economics • he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a conservative and libertarian perspective. • opposes Marxism, Reference text: Marxism: Philosophy and Economics • Cross cultural references:J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, F. A. Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter • Critical thinking:pushiness, justice and equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity

14. Thomas Friedman (1953) • American journalist and author. • He writes a twice-weekly column for The • New York Times. • He has won the Pulitzer Prize three • times. • Reference text: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization(1999) • Focus: Free-Market capitalism • Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, • A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, • Critical thinking: global trade, the • Middle East, Globalization, environmental • issues

15. Naomi Klein (1970) • Canadian author and social activist • known for her political analyses and • criticism of corporate globalization. • Reference text: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism(2007) • Focus: Capitalism • Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter • Critical thinking: frontier capitalism shifting from crisis to crisis

16. RiccardoBellofiore Full professor in political Economy at the University of Bergamo Reference text: Anarticle from “the Guardian”(2011) Focus:A crisis of Capitalism Cross cultural references: Karl Marx, Hyman Philip Minsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Stuart Holland, John Maynard Keynes Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe

17. Jeanette Winterson (1959) • Contemporary English Writer • adopted by Pentecostal parents • boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, sexual identities Reference text: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? • Focus: Manchester • Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, C. Dickens • Critical thinking: industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class – capitalists, process of change, contradictions inside society.

18. Luigi Zingales(1963) • Italian economist and educator • He’s the winner of the 2003 Germán Bernácer Prize to the best European economist under 40 working in macro-finance. • Competition isn’t guaranted by the control organisms Reference text: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity(3 June 2012) Focus:Capitalism • Cross cultural references: Adam Smith, Kenneth Joseph Arrow • Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe

19. WORKSHOP 7CREDITS • BALDO Sara • MONGERA Enrico • MONTANARI Veronica • TALIAN Lorenzo • ZANUTTA Riccardo