Name Franco Archibugi | Role Author | |
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Books Planning Theory: From the, The associative economy, Rome: A New Planning, Il compromesso economico, L' arte dell'associazione |
Franco Archibugi (Rome, Italy 18 September 1926) is an Italian scholar in political, economic and social sciences, university professor in economic policy and spatial planning. He has largely been operating in Italy and in international governmental agencies, in the field of economic development, social welfare and cooperation policy. Author of several works in the subject of planning theory and methodology, is among the theorists (and promoters) of a new unitary discipline of planning - the “Planology”- aimed at creating a bridge between the theoretical scientific progress in economics and other social sciences with the actual political and administrative efficiency and management. He lives in Rome, retired from the University but still an active researcher as President of the Planning Studies Centre, and instructor in its and other educational activities.
Contents
- Background education
- Political professional profile
- Research and academic activities
- Publications
- Epistemology of social sciences and Planology
- Analysis of the structural change and the future of the Welfare State
- Spatial planning territorial and urban
- Strategic planning in the public and non profit domain
- References

Background education
1944-1952. Sapienza University of Rome. Degree in History and Philosophy.
1947-1950. ISE- BCI- [Institute of Economic Studies. Rome department]
1963-1964. London School of Economics (LSE). One year Diploma in 'Economics and Social Administration'.
Political-professional profile
Research and academic activities
Franco Archibugi has constantly accompanied his technical-professional activities and experiences by research activities (which in their turn resulted in a systematic and scientific concept of planning methodology). After the decline of the experiences of economic planning in Italy (but also elsewhere, in the 1960s and 1970s, whether in developed or developing countries and in the UN activities), Franco Archibugi focused more intensively his attention and energy on the introduction of a unified approach to planning in the educational and academic world; he has been Full Professor at some Italian Universities and finally at the “Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione” [Postgraduate School of Public Administration] in Rome. He has been also active in an international networking of scholars who pursue the same intellectual path towards the integrative, socio-economic, unified planning; and for a new scientific experience – the “planology” (never implemented in its appropriate terms), and which he tried to illustrate like new disciplinary field, autonomous and free from its components disciplines (economics, sociology, physical planning, and so on) in a real meta-disciplinary approach: the ‘planological’ (or ‘programming’) approach. Franco Archibugi has been member of the Association of European Schools of Planning and active in several of its Congresses, and also at the World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) and to the activities of the GPEAN (Global Planning Education Association Network). He has also been associate at the EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy) participating in some of its Congress. He is also a member of other academic Italian associations like SIEDS (Società Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica) and SGI, (Società Geografica Italiana); of which he is honorary member, and many others. In his works, Archibugi has often expressed openly his intellectual debt and his derivations to thinking to some great scholars such as Gunnar Myrdal, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen and Wassily Leontief. (Of the last three, he has also benefited from friendly personal relations). He believe he follows in their traces, tries to relaunch their thinking (never rightly known and understood); and he hopes to have updated, completed and made explicit the meaning of their work in some way.
Publications
Here there is an essential selection of the most significant works by Franco Archibugi in the four different, but interwoven fields on which he got some attention and influence:
Epistemology of social sciences and “Planology”
1992. Towards a New Discipline of Planning. Palermo, “First World Conference on the Planning Sciences”; republished in “Socio-economic Planning Sciences, An International Journal”, vol.30 (1996) N.2 Full Text
1996. Program Indicators: Their Role and Use in the Integrated Social or Community Programming (Papers from the First World-Wide Conference on Planning Science,) ( Social Indicator Research, vol.39,N.3, 1996).Full Text
1999. The “programming’ approach”: methodological considerations based on the contributions of Frisch, Tinbergen and Leontief. In Saggi di politica economica in onore di Federico Caffè (a cura di N.Acocella et alii,). Franco Angeli, Milano 1999 ISBN 88-464-1627-9English Version
2000- Introduction to Planology: the paradigm shift in social sciences, PSC publisher, 2000 Summary
2008. Planning Theory, from the Political Debate to the Methodological Reconstruction, Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-88-470-0695-9Summary and some initial Praise
Forthcoming. The programming approach and the dissolution of economics. A manifesto against determinism in the social sciences.
Analysis of the structural change and the future of the Welfare State
1956. Perspective of the industrial relations in the age of automation. Panorama delle relazioni industriali nell’epoca dell’automatismo. [Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR.1957.] [only in Italian.]
1969 Income policies and planning policy: criteria and models. ed. with F.Forte [Politica dei redditi e pianificazione . Criteri e Modelli. (a cura). Etas-Kompass, 1969.] [only in Italian]
1979. Toward the planning’s collective bargaining: evolutionary aspects of relationship between planning and collective bargaining.[PSC publ.; only ital.]
1993. Insight into European Cohesion. A contribution to the Study of a Policy for the Strengthening of Socio-economic Cohesion in Europe. (Only in English). [PSC publ.). Summary
2000. The Associative Economy: Insights beyond the Welfare State and into Post-Capitalism, (Macmillan, 2000). ISBN 0-312-22380-3
2008. Between neo-capitalism and post-capitalism: a challenging turn of societal reform (Testo completo in “International Review of Sociology”, Vol.18, No.3, 2008 Testo Completo
Forthcoming: Between neo-capitalism and post-capitalism: a challenging turn of societal reform (PSC publ.)
Spatial planning, territorial and urban
1966 - City-region in Italy: cultural premises and programmed hypotheses. [only in Italian] Boringhieri 1966. Summary
1979. Principles of Regional Planning: 1.Methods and Objectives; 2. Programs and Budgeting. [only in Ital.] Franco Angeli editore. ISBN 88-204-1717-0 Summari in English
1989 Economy and Ecology. Towards Sustainable Development (eds. with P. Nijkamp). Kluwer Academic Publ. [ISBN, 0-7923-0477-2] (only English) Summary and Index
1994. Theory of Urbanistics: Lessons on a Reappraisal of the Foundations of Urban Planning PSC publ. Summary and Index
1997. The Ecological City and the City Effect, Ashgate, 1997 Summary and Index
1998 - The Future of Urban Quality in Europe. Towards a New European Urban Systems: Concepts and strategy. European Commission 1998. Summary
1999. Urban Ecosystems in Italy. A proposal for balanced urban, territorial and environmental re-organization at regional-national scale. [only in Ital.] Gangemi Editore, Roma] ISBN 88-7448-967-6 Summary
2005- Rome: a new urban planning strategy, Routledge, 2005.ISBN 0-415-30366-4 Summary
Strategic planning in the public and non profit domain
2002. Introduction to strategic planning in the public domain. PSC, Rome Summary
2004. Compendium of strategic planning for the Public Administrations, Alinea Firenze ISBN 88-8125-864-1 (Only in Italian) Summary
2004. Strategic planning and environmental governance . An international Symposium.[only Ital.] (edited with A.Saturnino). Alinea, Firenze, ISBN 88-8125-863-3.
2005. Introduction to strategic planning in the public domain. [only in Italian] Alinea 2005. ISBN 88-8125-739-4 2008. From bureaucrat to manager: past, present and future of strategic planning in Italy [only Ital.], Rubbettino, 2008. ISBN 978-88-498-2265-6
2008. From bureaucrat to manager: past, present and future of strategic planning in Italy [only Ital.], Rubbettino, 2008. ISBN 978-88-498-2265-6 Summary