Clara Mattei

Clara E. Mattei is Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research (NYC), she has a PhD in Economics from Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) and an MA and BA in Philosophy from Pavia University.

Clara E. Mattei has a BA and MA in philosophy and a PhD in Economics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). Since 2016 Clara is Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research (NYC) and for the year 2018-2019 she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies di Princeton. 

 Her research contributes to the history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. Her forthcoming book with Chicago University press is titled Capital Order: Class War and the invention of Modern Austerity. It investigates austerity as a powerful tool of reaction against the unprecedented crisis of capitalism after WWI, the mobilization of the working classes and their proposals for post-capitalist reconstruction. 

Her recent articles include: “Treasury View and Post-WWI British Austerity: Basil Blackett, Otto Niemeyer, and Ralph Hawtrey” (Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2018) “Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the first years of the Fascist government” (European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 2017); “The Guardians of capitalism: International Consensus and the Technocratic implementation of Austerity” (Journal of Law and Society, 2017)