After having earned his PhD in economics in 1989 at Marche Polytechnic University with a thesis on financial fragility under the supervision of
Hyman Minsky, Gallegati has held visiting positions, both as a scholar and as a professor at
Washington University in St. Louis,
University of Cambridge,
Stanford University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Columbia University,
Santa Fe Institute,
Brookings Institution,
University of Technology Sydney,
Kyoto University, and
ETH Zurich. He currently teaches advanced
macroeconomics at Marche Polytechnic University, in the Faculty of Economics, with Giorgio Fuà. He has been the president of the ESHIA Society (economic science with heterogeneous interacting agents). His research activity is mainly focused on
complexity economics. Within this field of research, he has published scientific works with
Bruce Greenwald,
Joseph Stiglitz, and
Domenico Delli Gatti. With
Joseph Stiglitz, Gallegati has developed a theory of
asymmetric information with heterogeneous agents and its applications. Gallegati is a member of the
Institute for New Economic Thinking. ==Books==