679 research outputs found
The path of a scholar
No full text“The path of a scholar” is the introduction to Production, Distribution and Trade: Alternative Perspectives, a volume of essays in honour of Sergio Parrinello (edited by Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz Kurz, Bertram Schefold and Ian Steedman, published by Routledge, 2010).
The author traces out the scientific career of Sergio Parrinello in context of the italian market for economists of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century and critically discusses his most significant works, specially those have resulted as seminal contributions for the later development of the neo-Ricardian theory. This discussion inevitably evolves in a tentative appraisal of the meaning of the neo-Ricardian theory in the recent history of political economy
La ricerca economica in Italia tra pluralismo e monismo: i giovani economisti negli ultimi trent’anni.
No full textTaking as good the famous definition of economics attributed to Viner, “Economics is what economists do”, it is surprising to see how little the history of economics has addressed the matter of what economists actually do, above all outside the USA. The vast mass of data on research output which has recently become readily accessible and arrangeable are allowed in this contribution to put into focus (to sharpen) the Italian “representative” economist, at the first rung of the academic ladder, the “Researcher” (ricercatore), in three subsequent periods over last 30 years, 1984 – 2005. With the aim, on the one hand, to trace out the evolution of the scientific profile from the beginning of the 1980s until the end of the period; on the other hand, to verify whether the progressive internationalisation of the profession, the increasing influence of the Anglo-Saxon way of organising research with the introduction of evaluation criteria taking into account the prominence achieved by publications have effectively modified the subjects and methods of research. An extensive database of publications of three cohorts of young economists at the first step of the academic career has been constructed. The publications has been classified on the basis of the research structure in economics prevailing at the edge of the 1980s, thus to outline from the inside the evolution of our research model. The outcome: that research model has lost the most part of his pluralistic peculiarities to close in significantly the monistic Anglo-Saxon model. Not a result unexpected; the novelty to emphasize is that the change appeared not step by step but all of a sudden at the transition from the 1980s to the1990s. The publications of the last cohort don’t do anything but conferm that change. Even whitin this metamorphosis, however, the research model that young researchers currently carry out, shows a specificity of the old one: the prominently role, even in the international comparison, of the History of economic analysis that, just about lone, supports the fleg of the pluralism. Other research areas that were typical of and characterized the Italian research model, also in the international research market, such as, for instance, the critical theories (Sraffian and Post-keynesian) coming from the Cambridge (Uk) tradition, have, almost completely, got out from the hunt territory crossed by the young Italian economists; because, perhaps, they are inclined to believe that an academic carrier as economist cannot be developed smoothly if based on research themes outside the nowadays mainstream
Strumenti analitici per l'interpretazione dell'organizzazione distrettualeEconomia e società regionale
No full textDall’esame sommario della realtà dei distretti industriali oggi un dato immediatamente balza all’attenzione dell’osservatore ingenuo1. Le organizzazioni produttive che chiamiamo distretti si osservano solo in alcuni settori produttivi e sono del tutto assenti in altri. L’insieme possibile dei settori produttivi si può ripartire in due sottoinsiemi caratterizzati dalla presenza e dall’assenza di organizzazioni distrettuali. Nel sottoinsieme di settori in cui compaiono organizzazioni distrettuali si osservano anche organizzazioni tradizionali, come la grande impresa verticalmente integrata o aggregati di imprese più o meno grandi, più o meno interrelate tra loro. Settori che in un territorio sono organizzati a distretto altrove si organizzano in modo tradizionale. La domanda ingenua è: perché in alcuni settori produttivi trovano cittadinanza l’organizzazione a distretto, in modo per lo più prevalente, esclusivo talvolta, accanto all’organizzazione standard mentre per gli altri settori o per gli stessi settori in altre realtà territoriali non si rintracciano organizzazioni a distretto
The path of a scholar
No full text“The path of a scholar” is the introduction to Production, Distribution and Trade: Alternative Perspectives, a volume of essays in honour of Sergio Parrinello (edited by Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz Kurz, Bertram Schefold and Ian Steedman, published by Routledge, 2010). The author traces out the scientific career of Sergio Parrinello in context of the italian market for economists of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century and critically discusses his most significant works, specially those have resulted as seminal contributions for the later development of the neo-Ricardian theory. This discussion inevitably evolves in a tentative appraisal of the meaning of the neo-Ricardian theory in the recent history of political economy.neo-Ricardian; capital controversy; history of political economy
Stagnazione della produttività e globalizzazione dei processi produttivi. Conseguenze per un'area ad alta intensità manifatturiera
No full textLabour productivity growth means real wages and, in particular conditions, employment growth. The level of firm labour productivity in manufacturing sector depends on the quality of adopted technology. Usually large investments imply an upgrading technology. If productivity is growing also profits are increasing. At national and regionale level (North East) investments has been stagnant for some years and so that also productivity has not been growing. Despite this firm profits are increasing.
Recent productive delocalization of many North East firms appears as a surrogate of standard investiment policy in new technology. Firms invest abroad their region and this investments does not appear in regional statistics.
The consequences of these firm policies on the welfare region are not unambiguous at the moment. Firm profits are growing but real wages are stagnant or declining. Also the level of employment appers, slightly, to go down. So firm delocalization policies reveal a conflict about income distribution among regional workers, abrod workers and firms. Firm productive delocalizations keep up or enhance profits but benefits for region as a whole are not so obvious.
Keywords: Labour Productivity, Income Distribution, Investment, Globalization
Jel Classification: E24, F43, O11, O33, O4
Perché il sistema pensionistico pubblico è o appare in crisi? Una nota pedagogica
No full textThe achievement of the past welfare policies appears as one of the major reason in the pension systems crisis. Changes in the income distribution, in the labour market functioning, in demographic trends determine the “sustainability” of the Pay-as-you-go public pension systems. All these changes are acting towards the financial crisis of the public pension schemes. But a substantial role is to impute at the changes in income distribution. To overcome this conflict governments and economic institutions suggest to set up policies to manage the transition towards fully funded pension schemes. These systems produce the same pension results of the old public Pay-as-you-go schemes at higher social costs: so the only reason to foster fully funded schemes is that they are functional at the present phase of capitalism governed by finance.
Keywords: pension schemes, Pay-as-you-go, income distribution.
JEL CLASSIFICATION: B51, E12, H5
Un'applicazione del modello "fondi e flussi" a uno studio di caso aziendale nel distretto calzaturiero della riviera del Brenta
No full textQuesto lavoro consiste nell’applicazione del modello ‘fondi e flussi’, concepito originariamente da N. Georgescu Roegen, formalizzato da P. Tani e tradotto per l’analisi empirica da V. Moriggia e M.Morroni, ad un’impresa calzaturiera operante nel distretto della riviera del Brenta.
Nei primi tre paragrafi si discutono alcuni nodi problematici che riguardano le imprese produttrici di calzature del distretto del Brenta e che sono il frutto di alcune interviste realizzate con imprenditori dell’area. Le questioni che si sollevano hanno tuttavia un rilievo più generale e, per certi aspetti, investono le possibilità di sopravvivenza tecnico-economica dei distretti industriali così come sono oggi caratterizzati nel contesto italiano.
Negli ultimi due paragrafi si espongono brevemente i risultati emersi dall’implementazione del modello ‘fondi e flussi’ a un'impresa calzaturiera del distretto della riviera del Brenta; il modello è la versione elaborata da Moriggia e Morroni e adattato dallo scrivente al processo di produzione di calzature
ALLA RICERCA DEL PROFITTO TRA MERCATO E TECNOLOGIA
No full textSi studia il diverso comportamento strategico delle imprese a seconda della loro distanza dal mercato finale. La tesi del lavoro è che vanno distinte le imprese che vendono in mercati in cui l'acquirente è informato sulla natura, anche tecnologica, del prodotto da quelle il cui mercato di riferimento è abitato da acquirenti con informazioni scarse sulle qualità intrinseche di ciò che viene loro offerto. Questa distinzione è rilevante per capire quale tipologia di politiche di innovazione le imprese perseguono
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