Francesco Farina is Professor of Economics at Cimeo, Sapienza University of Rome. A Former President (2014-18) of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems, he has been teaching in the universities of Toronto, Siena, Perugia, Luiss Rome, and Napoli l'Orientale. He is the author of several books and papers on macroeconomics, and recently of Lo Stato sociale, Luiss University Press, 2021.