Massimo Florio è Professore emerito di Scienza delle Finanze, Università degli Studi di Milano. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano l’analisi costi-benefici, le politiche industriali e regionali, le infrastrutture e la crescita, le privatizzazioni, l’impresa pubblica e l’economia della conoscenza. Tra i libri di cui è autore: State Owned Enterprises in developed market economies (coautore, Cambridge University Press 2024), La privatizzazione della conoscenza (Laterza 2021), Investing in Science Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Research Infrastructures (The MIT Press, 2019), Applied Welfare Economics. Cost-Benefit Analysis of projects and policies (Routledge, 2023, coautore), Network Industries and Social Welfare. The Experiment that Reshuffled European Utilities (Oxford University Press, 2013). È in corso di pubblicazione un nuovo libro sul ruolo dello Stato (Feltrinelli 2026).

Massimo Florio is Professor emeritus of Public Economics, Università degli Studi di Milano. His main research interests are in cost-benefit analysis, industrial and regional policies, infrastructure and growth, privatization, public enterprise and the economics of knowledge. His recent books include State Owned Enterprises in developed market economies (Cambridge University Press, 2024, coauthor), The privatization of knowledge (Routledge 2024), Investing in Science Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Research Infrastructures (The MIT Press, 2019), Applied Welfare Economics. Cost-Benefit Analysis of projects and policies (Routledge, 2023, coauthor), Network Industries and Social Welfare. The Experiment that Reshuffled European Utilities (Oxford University Press, 2013). A new book on the role of the State is going to be published (Feltrinelli 2026).