The article introduces the new issue of the journal, reviewing the contributions included therein, and placing them in context. The author discusses the recent trends in European economic policy, with specific focus on its neglected international and global spillovers.

This work explores the role of discrimination in shaping individuals’ lives and opportunities, with specific respect to sexual orientation. The role of sexual orientation in explaining earning differences has been increasingly emphasized in empirical literature on discrimination mainly as a...

The brief editorial note introduces the new issue of the journal. The present issue contains the second article of a three-installments series on Islamic finance, followed by an article on industrial policy in the midst of the Eurozone crisis and a historical account of some early writings by...

The brief editorial note intriduces the new issue of the journal. Starting from the current issue (March 2014), the Review has a new international editorial board. The supervisory board and Economia civile (owner of the journal) wish to thank the friends and colleagues who graciously accepted to...

The brief note introduces the articles collected in the present issue of the journal. It places the various contributions in perspective, critically summarizing the major economic developments since the publication of the last issue.

While we do not mean to imply that there are insurmountable or even clear distinctions between the social sciences, we claim that economists can still provide an original analysis of class, which should be regarded as complementary to those developed by sociologists. Following the tradition of...

Recent economic literature on poverty may be broadly divided into two strands. One strand investigates the multidimensional nature of poverty. The other strand, employing the large availability of household surveys, investigates the micro and macro determinants of monetary poverty, analyzing the...

We define public administrations (PAs) as productive units, and analyze the recent trends in PAs' productivity applying Sylos Labini's productivity function model. At the microeconomic level, we propose a model of government action for the production of public goods. At the macroeconomic level,...

We use data from 298 showings of the television program "Affari Tuoi," which involves contestants making decisions between risky prospects with possible prizes of up to half a million euros, to estimate three models of decision-making under risk: Expected Utility, Rank-Dependent Expected Utility...