Tito Boeri is professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where he has been rector for research, Centennial Professor at London School of Economics and Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (www.frdb.org). His papers have been published on the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Policy, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Labour Economics, the Journal of Development Economics and the NBER Macroeconomics Annual. He published 12 books with Oxford University Press, MIT Press and Princeton University Press. He is the founder of the economic policy watchdog website www.lavoce.info and the scientific director of the Festival of Economics in Trento.