This seven-part Introduction to the contributions of Stefano Zambelli to modern macroeconomic theory and simulations is nothing more than a scratching of the surface of his rich input. In particular, the first and last parts are personal introductions; the middle four parts are reasonably...

There appears to be a growing pressure on businesses to take responsibility for sustainability on a local as well as a global scale. Narrow profit optimization or optimizing shareholder value no longer suffice - other stakeholders in a wide respect need to be considered in decision-making, the...

One of the many remarkable qualities of Stefano Zambelli is the breadth of his research interests. From a brief examination of Zambelli's scientific contributions, projects development activities, and research breakthroughs, it is readily noticeable that he has not worked in a single narrow...

The Cambridge school has challenged neoclassical theory and demonstrated how mainstream economics was unsuitable to describe the real economy. Different heterodox economists have recognized the importance both of Keynes and Sraffa and different efforts have been made in order to develop a...

This chapter proposes an alternative doctrine, christened as the meaning maximization doctrine, to the lifetime utility maximization doctrine. While the meaning of life is a familiar pursuit, given that modernity, to a great extent, is characterized by it, the formulation of our doctrine is...

The aim of this chapter is ultimately addressed to interpreting the recent phenomenon of the contemporary Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) - popularly referred to as "Land Grabbing" (LG) - in light of Sraffa's notion of "viability".The most generally recognized factors behind the recent...

This chapter develops a conception of reflexive economic agents as an alternative to the standard utility conception and explains individual identity in terms of how agents adjust to change in a self-organizing way, an idea developed from Herbert Simon. It seeks to model the behavior of economic...

Understanding the morphogenetic (creative destruction) nature of economic systems is crucial for modelling economic growth and analysing traverse. Prof. Zambelli's contribution to endogenous growth theory by harnessing the Turing Machine (TM) metaphor to intrinsically encapsulate the...

The property of robustness is defined in connection with macroeconomic models. Models involving saddle-point dynamics are shown not to have this property, raising serious methodological difficulties. Examples from economic growth theory and the theory of inflation are discussed. The proposed...

An attempt is made, in these few pages, to suggest how Stefano Zambelli's economic intuition is based on the work of distinguished unorthodox (and some enlightened orthodox) economists, emphasising the connection between the long-term and the short-term and the theory of imperfect competition.