Assistant Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi. I study how network structure shapes innovation, in organizations, markets and the history of ideas.https://www.leonardorizzo.com/https://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/production-networks-economics/https://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/production-networks-economics/In macroeconomics, the study of production networks is a recent approach of the literature that focuses on understanding the impact of the firm-to-firm production networks on aggregate quantities. The role of production networks in the…Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/literary-social-network-python-tutorial/https://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/literary-social-network-python-tutorial/In this post, I create the social network of a book. The idea is to create a window of words and slide this window through the text. If two characters appear in the same window of text, a link is formed among these characters. Since I…Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/emotional-arcs-stories-python-tutorial/https://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/emotional-arcs-stories-python-tutorial/I’ve chosen to analyze “The Tartar Steppe” by Dino Buzzati, which is my favorite novel. The main theme of the novel is the flee of time, and it is a recommended read for everyone who is struggling with a routine. The original text is in…Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/equilibrium-and-full-employment-in-friedman-and-lucas/https://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/equilibrium-and-full-employment-in-friedman-and-lucas/For centuries, the development of economic theories has been framed around the fundamental concept of equilibrium, i.e. a point in which the forces of the system equilibrate in such a way as to make it stable. In 1936, Keynes…Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/keynesian-economics-money-wage-flexibility-and-full-employment/https://www.leonardorizzo.com/writing/keynesian-economics-money-wage-flexibility-and-full-employment/Keynesian economics is a general term which includes a variety of views and authors having as a common ground the theories advanced by Keynes in his masterpiece of 1936: “The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money”. The…Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT