Francesco Vigliarolo is prof. titular of Regional Economics at Catholic University of La Plata and social economist. PhD. in Social Sciences, specialization in economic sociology, post doctorate in Economics and Master in sustainable development. He is also an Associate Investigator of the CESOT (Centro de Study of Sociology of Work) of the University of Buenos Aires. At the Universidad Nacional de La Plata he is chairolder of UNESCO chair in “Economic Systems and Human Rights” he founded with almost 20 Universities all over the world. With his investigations, he is interested in local development processes such as the construction of territorial identities that imply the affirmation of rights (ontological reason) through the strength of associative and democratic forms of production. In this direction, he works to what is called an “economic phenomenology” which aims to observe the economy starting from the relationship between subject and materiality, which presupposes “functions, ideas, concepts” and the affirmation of the "relational identity of a democratic society”, which defines an ontological reason as opposed to the utilitarian one. He published various books and scientific articles from which he explains concepts such as “social ethical capital”, “economic socialization and democracy”, “demand for the rights of the people”, “meso-economics approach” and “the principles of economic phenomenology”. Among his latest books we mention (2025) “Economic Systems and Human Rights: Using Socioeconomic Models and Practices to Promote Economic Socialization, Palgrave Macmillan”.