Italian Abstract: Contributo a una serie di ricordi e riflessioni sulle esperienze professionali di eminenti economisti.Articolo originariamente pubblicato nel vol.39 n.159 della Rassegna trimestrale Banca Nazionale del Lavoro

“Written with the attempt to tell credible history and possible scenes, in order to anticipate still latent tendencies, or in order to imagine communities and societies more civil, richer than reciprocity, in all its shapes. ” (pp. XV). From this ambitious premised the author of the issue...

Negli ultimi tempi, fra gli studiosi dei processi di formazione delle scelte pubbliche è in corso un interessante dibattito volto ad individuare le tecniche più appropriate per gestire in maniera efficace (ovvero in tempi rapidi e garantendo la stabilità e la durevolezza delle decisioni o...

"Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" (A.O. Hirschman 1970) is a theoretical concept derived from the work of Albert O. Hirschman (1970) which is focused on two essential options in organizatios and products decline, being "exit" and "voice".The basis concept is as follows: members of an organization,...

Italian Abstract: Questo contributo si propone di riformulare lo statuto “critico” del consumo, andando a ricercarne le tracce all'interno di modelli che da alternativi sono diventati mainstream. In particolare si intendono analizzare gli effetti generati da nuove value chains rispetto a un...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro vengono esposti in sintesi i principali risultati relativi all'introduzione degli effetti rete nelle preferenze dei consumatori e le implicazioni di questi sulla dominanza di uno standard o la coesistenza di più standards. Gli storici risultati di Rohlfs...

These writings examine Claudio Napoleoni's reflection on the problems of Marxist theory of value. While the first one focuses on the notion of economic exploitation, the second dwells on the concept of alienation. Both discuss how these explorations seek to delineate a horizon of human...

These writings examine Claudio Napoleoni's reflection on the problems of Marxist theory of value. While the first one focuses on the notion of economic exploitation, the second dwells on the concept of alienation. Both discuss how these explorations seek to delineate a horizon of human...

Claudio Napoleoni’s reflection on the problems of the Marxist theory of value is not separate from that on the Italian economy. In particular, during the Sixties, his reexamination of the concepts of productive activities and rents allow him to argue that the social and political hegemony of...

The persistence of demand for economic irrationality, as expressed by the big success gained by the literature on no-globalism, is an empirical puzzle and the recent book by Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine (2007) is a rampant example. An explanation for this anomaly is provided by the theory of...