Cosimo Perrotta

Cosimo Perrotta (born July 9, 1942) is an Italian professor of economic history at the University of Salento and author of the book Consumption as an Investment. Perrotta was born in Squinzano, Italy.^[1]

Publications

• Coats, Alfred W.; Perrotta, Cosimo; Gioia, Vitantonio; Centro di Studi Economici; Università degli studi di Lecce, eds. (1994). Where is economics going? Historical viewpoints; [papers ..., delivered at the University of Lecce during 1992/93 in a series of seminars organized by the Centro di Studi Economici]. Itinerari di ricerca storica Supplementi. Galatina (Lecce): Congedo. ISBN 978-88-8086-079-2.
• Perrotta, Cosimo (2004). Consumption as an investment. Routledge studies in the history of economics. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-30619-5. OCLC 55085749.
• Perrotta, Cosimo (2020). Is capitalism still progressive? A historical approach. Palgrave pivot. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-48169-8.
• Perrotta, Cosimo (2018). Unproductive labour in political economy: the history of an idea. Routledge studies in the history of economics. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-138-65832-5.