Rate My Professor Ivano Cardinale

Professor Ivano Cardinale is Professor of Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, serving as the founding Head of the School of Creative Management. He established and directs the Structural Economic Analysis Unit (SEAU), developing the 'Structural Political Economy' approach. This framework characterizes the economy as a system, examining the constraints and opportunities imposed by its materiality and organization on the objectives pursued by social groups and collective entities. Cardinale obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to his current roles, he held a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was a Political Economy Research Fellow at the Independent Social Research Foundation. He joined Goldsmiths from the University of Cambridge, where he maintained affiliations, and progressed to Reader in Economics at the Institute of Management Studies before his promotion to Professor.

Cardinale serves as Editor-in-Chief of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, a prominent journal focused on structural transformations in economies. His research has garnered significant acclaim, including the Feltrinelli Giovani Prize 2022 for the Social Sciences, awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in the presence of the President of the Republic. This top honor for Italian scholars under 40, accompanied by a €50,000 prize, recognizes his pioneering contributions to Structural Political Economy, particularly the reciprocal influence between social groups' actions and socio-economic structures. Notable publications include the forthcoming book Structural Political Economy: Rethinking the Economic Foundations of Conflict and Compromise (2026), Conflicts, compromises, and the economy (2025, National Institute Economic Review), Beyond Constraining and Enabling: Toward New Microfoundations for Institutional Theory (2018, Academy of Management Review), Architectures of production and industrial dynamics: A task-function theory of structural change (2023, with Roberto Scazzieri, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics), and Political economy revisited: structures and objectives at the systemic level (2024, with Roberto Scazzieri). Additional works address topics such as the EU's vulnerability to gas price shocks, industrial development processes, and the complexity of human space through multi-layered networks. Cardinale's scholarship bridges economic theory, institutional analysis, and systemic dynamics, impacting understandings of conflict, compromise, and economic change.