Mr Marco Boffo
Laurea Triennale in Economia Politica (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Laurea Specialistica in Economia Politica (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Overview
Department of Economics
Graduate Teaching Associate
- Name:
- Mr Marco Boffo
- Email address:
- mb94@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- A Political Economy of Software: Labour, Production of Knowledge, and Use of Knowledge in Production (Working Title)
- Year of Study:
- 2009-2012
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
Marco Boffo is in receipt of a +3 scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The research aims at assessing different theoretical approaches to the study of software, with the aim of drawing insights on the place of labour, knowledge, and information within the digital environment and, more broadly, contemporary capitalism.
PhD Publications
Boffo, Marco (2012) 'Analytical Marxism' In: Fine, Ben and Saad-Filho, Alfredo, (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
PhD Conferences
"Labour, Production of Knowledge and Use of Knowledge in Production: Insights from Software on the Immaterial Labour and Cognitive Capitalism Debates", presented at the First International Conference in Political Economy (IIPPE and Greek Association of Political Economy)
"Some Implications of Recent Work on Immaterial Labour" presented at the Second International Conference in Political Economy (IIPPE and TSSA): Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Sciences.
Research
Economic Theory, History of Economic Thought, Philosophy of Economics, Science and Technology Studies.
