Zingales (Italian pronunciation: [lu'i?d?i ddzi?'ga?les]; born February 8, 1963 in Padua, Italy), is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the author of two widely reviewed books.
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) is a study of "relationship capitalism".
In A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012), Zingales "suggests that channeling populist anger can reinvigorate the power of competition and reverse the movement toward a 'crony system'."