Francesco Boldizzoni is an Italian academic and historian.
Career
He has developed an intellectual framework that emphasizes the relevance of the history of ideas and concepts to the understanding of the modern economy. He is currently best known for his critique of neoliberal economic history, The Poverty of Clio.
Views
Boldizzoni is primarily a historian of capitalism. He has advocated an anti-positivist approach to social science history, which draws on historicism, post-structuralism, cultural interpretation, and critical theory.
Membership
He is a research professor of economic history at the University of Turin and a member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.