Alberto Bagnai (born 10 December 1962) is an Italian politician and economist.

He then discussed a PhD thesis in Economics in 1994 with a dissertation on "Sustainability and Dynamic Pathways of Public Debt in Italy".

In the same year, he formed the Italian Association for the Study of Economic Asymmetries, which he currently chairs.

In 2012, Bagnai published Il tramonto dell'euro (The Decline of the Euro).

With a strongly Eurosceptic and anti-globalist orientation, Bagnai calls himself a post-Keynesian economist,[1][2] and adheres to the orthodox vision expressed by economists such as James Meade, Anthony Thirlwall, and Martin Feldstein, according to which there are no structural assumptions for Europe to equip itself of a single currency.