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Resources and Economic Dynamics, Technology and Rents
No full textThe essay investigates non producible (natural) resources and rent from three points of views: stylized facts, quantitative economics and economic theory. Taking the first point of view, the author discusses how economic growth can be represented in terms of never-ending tension between scarcity and technical progress. At least since the onset of modern economic growth, whenever scarcity produced a slowdown of growth, technical progress followed and scarcity was thereby removed. Scarcity, in a long-run perspective, has always been of the «relative» type, while absolute scarcity never set in. This essay consider this problem from many points of view. First of all it considers the point of view of quantitative economics like those of Simon Kuznets and Wassily Leontief who emphasized the relative character of scarcity and the importance of keeping the relationship between scarcity and innovation into account (this is especially true of Kuznets). Secondly the essay considers the contribution of economic theory. In this connection, the author points out that both the macroeconomic and multi-sectoral models developed since the 1930s overlooked the investigation of scarce natural resources and rent, as well as their relationship with technical progress. Only Piero Sraffa examined non producible resources and rent but he has done it in a single-period model. The author of this essay investigated the same issues in a more general analytical set-up starting with a contribution published in 1967 followed by many others. Later on, Quadrio Curzio and Pellizzari, especially in the 1996 volume, analyzed the general relationships among production, prices, income distribution, technical progress and growth when scarce resources play a significant role. Those contributions also investigated the nature of technological rents, which are an important feature of modern economic growth in the presence of technical progress. At the same time Quadrio Curzio, in collaboration with Marco Fortis and Roberto Zoboli, analysed historical, quantitative and qualitative aspects of economic dynamics, and the way in which natural resources and raw materials exert an influence on economic growth and more generally economic dynamics. Those aspects are not fully considered in the present essay, but they represent its fundamental background. Finally in 2008 Quadrio Curzio, Pellizzari and Zoboli outlined in a valuable encyclopaedic dictionary a compact synthesis of the above approach to the economic analysis of raw materials and primary commodities. The essay takes a point of view which is not typical of the «post- Keynesian» approach, yet it belongs to a post-classical perspective that is closely connected to the Italian-Cambridge tradition of political economy as a social discipline. Tradition on which Alberto Quadrio Curzio, especially researching with Roberto Scazzieri, focused his attention in many essays from a methodological point of view.natural resources; technological innovation; relative scarcity; investments; rent;
Intorno a Curzio, per altre moderne carte
No full textSi aggiungono alcune precisazioni intorno alla biografia di Curzio Gonzaga, nonché un suo ritratto inedito realizzato da Carlo d'Arco nell'Ottocento. Viene prodotta parte del suo epistolario da Roma a Mantova (1555), il suo testamento e la voce a lui dedicata nel manoscritto "Notizie delle Accademie..." di Carlo d'Arco (Mantova, Archivio di Stato)
Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth: Changing interactions in the world economy
No full textThe essay addresses the role of natural resources for the global economy and highlights the systemic implications of natural resources and environmental scarcity for economic dynamics
La Valtellina: la difficile crescita di un’economia alpina
No full textIl saggio caratterizza le dinamiche di sviluppo della Valtellina nell'ambito della sua area geo-economica di riferiment
La ricerca del centro Cranec dell'Università Cattolica
No full textLe piattaforme delle tecnoscienze sono uno strumento di organizzazione e collaborazione dei diversi soggetti scientifici, tecnologici e industriali operanti su specifiche tematiche e costituiscono una modalità per programmare, progettare e realizzare prodotti, strutture, visioni e capacità di intervento che spesso travalicano i confini e gli ambiti di appartenenza. Da qui derivano il vasto interesse per il loro contributo e la necessità di compiere una riflessione sulla loro evoluzione. Riflessione accelerata dagli avvenimenti di questi ultimi anni, con al centro gli effetti e le conseguenze della crisi pandemica e l’avvio di quel processo di riorganizzazione del sistema scientifico e tecnologico nazionale patrocinato dal PNRR. Il volume raccoglie e aggiorna i contributi presentati al convegno tenutosi nel 2022 all’Accademia dei Lincei, promosso con il Centro di ricerche in Analisi economica e Sviluppo economico internazionale Cranec dell’Università Cattolica e la Fondazione Edison, in occasione della conclusione di una ricerca sviluppata col patrocinio di Fondazione Cariplo. Le piattaforme costituiscono un punto di convergenza tra passato e futuro, tra dimensione europea e nazionale, tra scienza e società e risulta rilevante saperne cogliere le potenzialità per poterle tradurre in realtà concrete ed efficaci
Le Banche Popolari Cooperative. Profili italiani ed europei
No full textIl volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno Le Banche Popolari Cooperative: profili italiani ed europei, organizzato nel febbraio 2009 dall'Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane in collaborazione
con l'Associazione Nazionale fra le Banche Popolari. Dedicato alla memoria di Giuseppe Murè, personalità che nel corso della propria vita ha dato un riconosciuto e significativo contributo allo sviluppo e alla crescita delle Banche Popolari, il convegno è stato un momento di riflessione e di confronto sul ruolo che le istituzioni bancarie cooperative sono chiamate a svolgere a sostegno del territorio, delle economie locali e del Sistema Paese, nel più ampio accoglimento dei valori di sussidiarietà, solidarietà e sviluppo che ne hanno caratterizzato fin dalla nascita lo spirito e l'operato.
I contributi del vice direttore generale della Banca d'Italia A. M. Tarantola, di Accademici (A. Quadrio Curzio, C. Rotondi, S. Zamagni, G. Muré, S. De Angeli, G. Ferri, M. Fortis, C. D'Adda, M. Condemi) e di Banchieri (G. De Censi, C. Fratta Pasini, M. Stacca, H. Guider, G. De Lucia Lumeno) hanno fornito una panoramica completa delle prospettive delle Banche Popolari Cooperative nel contesto nazionale ed internazionale
Recensione [Valorizzare un'economia forte. L'Italia e il ruolo della sussidiarietà, di A Quadrio Curzio e M. Fortis, Il Mulino 2007]
No full textRecensione del volume di A Quadrio Curzio e M. Fortis intitolato Valorizzare un'economia forte. L'Italia e il ruolo della sussidiarietà, del 2007, pubblicato da Il Mulino
Resources and Technologies
No full textThis Working Paper joint two previous articles by the authors: The economic theory of exhaustible natural resources, in “Enciclopedia degli Idrocarburi”, vol. IV, Istituto della Enciclopedia Treccani, Roma, 2008, pp. 3-10;Technological innovation, relative scarcity, investments, in “Enciclopedia degli Idrocarburi”, vol. IV, Istituto della Enciclopedia Treccani, 2008, pp. 11-22. In the first one (cap. 1-4), we consider the contribution of economic theory (partly through a reevaluation of history) in order both to interpret and predict events, and to identify economic policies; this happens especially when the world economy feels the significant constraints imposed by some natural resources and raw materials, partly due to the rapid growth of a number of developing countries, and when there is an urgent need to increase resources rapidly to ensure continuing availability. Even if the problem of scarce resources (of which natural resources are the most obvious category) has been central to analysis for centuries, natural resource economics is contradictory. The main reason for this is that economic theory is out of step with prevailing economic conditions, as a consequence of the varying concern for a crucial phenomenon in the dynamics of economic systems: the opposition-coexistence of the scarcity of natural resources and the producibility of commodities. Natural resource economics can be summarized by dividing it into three main lines of thought: the theory of producibility and scarcity developed by classical economists; the theory of general and natural scarcities developed by marginalists and neoclassicals; the theory of dynamics with and without natural scarcities developed by macroeconomists, structuralists and empirical stylizers. Using this three-way subdivision, which is not clearly codified in economic theory, the basic features of each approach will be examined with special attention to its early exponents. The historical starting point is the second half of the Eighteenth century, although we will ignore contributions such as those made by the Physiocrats who, during the same period, developed a theory of production based on the surplus generated by agriculture. In the second one (cap. 5-6), we consider that the role of technological innovation for resources use and conservation is often measured by empirical indicators of intensity or efficiency which express the evolution of resource use in relation to variables such as population and GDP. The historical evolution of these indicators tends to indicate a process of decoupling – in other words, a decrease in the energy/emissions intensity of economic activity or an increase in the efficiency/productivity of resource use. These empirical regularities have led to the proposition of stylized facts representing the relationships between resource-use efficiency and economic growth known as environmental Kuznets curves. However, the economic interpretations of the innovation mechanisms underlying the progress suggested by efficiency indicators, nonetheless, remain open and complex at the very time when there is increasing demand for further substantial advances in resource-use efficiency. We will survey the empirical evidence on the medium- and long-term dynamics of these indicators and will discuss their significance. This will be followed by an analysis of the possible role played by economic factors (especially resource prices and markets) and institutional factors (especially climate policy) in triggering and supporting progress in the use efficiency of energy resources.natural resources; technological innovation; relative scarcity; investments
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