C’è un crescente interesse per l’economia civile (EC) intesa come una rivisitazione della storia del pensiero economico, come un ideale a cui uniformare l’organizzazione economica del futuro, come un criterio di analisi per capire meglio le attuali tendenze dell’economia. Quello che ci...

The article deals with different manifestations of localism in Italy. The beginning of research on localism, with the exclusion of older backward community studies, can be dated to the 1980s. It has three main areas of meaning: as the space directly controlled by the senses; as the source of a...

Rural development has raised attention after the crisis of classical theories of social change and after the European Union has shown great concern for rural spaces in lieu of agricultural firms. These new trends, often summarized as "endogenous and sustainable development", are based mostly on...