Olimpia Malatesta

Olimpia Malatesta is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bologna and Boston University (secondments at the University of Vienna and Brunel University London). She is currently working on the project Ecological Planning and Economic Rationalities: Political and Epistemological Theories in the Age of Polycrisis, which explores the planning theories of Neurath,  Polanyi, Hayek, and Mises. Her research has focused extensively on ordoliberalism (Eucken, Röpke, Müller-Armack, Rüstow, Böhm), on German sociology (Sombart, Schmoller), as well as on Austrian neoliberalism, with particular attention to the Conservative Revolution (Schmitt). She completed her PhD in cotutelle between the University of Bologna and Friedrich Schiller University Jena and held research fellowships funded by the DAAD, the OEAD and the IISF. She has since been a research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Université Paris Nanterre, and the University of Vienna. Her first monograph, Ordoliberalism, State and Society: A Political Theory of Social Order (Routledge), was published in 2025.