Massimo Asta Editor

Pedro Ramos Pinto is Associate Professor in International Economic History at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he has taught since 2013. His work focuses on the historical origins and reproduction of inequality, with a particular focus on the history and politics of measurement, and between 2014 to 2018 he directed a research project on the History of Measurement of Inequality. He is the co-editor of The History of Universal Basic Income (2021) and Inequality: A Global History. Massimo Asta is Research Associate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK, and recipient of a research grant from the Isaac Newton Trust. His current research explores the interweaving between engagement, profession and economic ideas, taking as its focus the left-wing economists’ commitment in France, United Kingdom and Italy from the 1900s to the 1950s. He published a monograph with Carocci, Girolamo Li Causi, un rivoluzionario del Novecento (1896-1977) in 2017.