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Ponza di San Martino, Coriolano Cesare Luigi
No full textDescrizione della vita e dell'attività di Coriolano Cesare Luigi Ponza di San Martin
Cesare Beccaria e as sombras do iluminismo: direito penal e absolutismo eclarecido na Lombardia austríaca
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em DireitoO Iluminismo milanês do Circulo do Caffè desenvolveu-se em um contexto em que faltava, da parte da sociedade civil, qualquer iniciativa contundente em benefício da causa da modernização institucional. Ao contrário, a Lombardia, naqueles anos, era palco de um potente programa reformista e modernizador levado a cabo dentro do projeto autocrático do absolutismo habsbúrgico. Dentro desse contexto a identificação dos jovens intelectuais com a causa da modernização absolutista foi praticamente inevitável. Os intelectuais iluministas da Società dei Pugni são assim absorvidos dentro desse processo de modernização conservadora e passam a integram os quadros funcionais submetidos à coroa austríaca e a seus representantes lombardos. Algumas conseqüências, desde logo, são importantes. A primeira, é uma espécie de abertura de horizontes sofrida pela proposta absolutista, em função da influência daqueles intelectuais, essencial para se formar o fenômeno do absolutismo esclarecido. A segunda, é o progressivo abandono das idéias republicanas e democráticas que faziam parte do espírito original da filosofia das Luzes. As capacidades intelectuais dos jovens filósofos, ante ao abandono relativamente forçado dos ideais humanistas que justificavam o projeto da modernidade, acaba levando a que a racionalidade iluminista por eles representada seja progressivamente reduzida ao seu mero aspecto instrumental e que fique, assim, à disposição tão-somente da lógica de acumulo do poder. Cesare Beccaria, graças à publicação de Dei Delitti e delle Pene, transformou-se no iluminista italiano mais conhecido, tanto em sua época quando nos correntes dias. Graças a ela, o partido dos philosophes da França, comandado por Voltaire, passou a acompanhar com curiosidade e atenção os progressos que fazia, em nome da razão, a École de Milan. Sua obra até hoje é louvada, por criminalistas de todo o mundo, como aquela que ajudou a fundar o direito penal moderno, instaurando na esfera criminal os princípios humanistas, fundados na idéia iluminista de dignidade da pessoa humana. Mas esse momento tão brilhante e luminoso do Iluminismo milanês talvez guarde algo daquilo que levaria suas sombras a avolumarem-se cada vez mais até levá-lo a seu triste crepúsculo dentro das entranhas do absolutismo habsbúrgico. O papel exercido pela teoria utilitarista, voltada sobretudo para fornecer ao soberano os métodos indicados para a subordinação da sociedade civil, mais ou menos como fazia a Ciência de Polícia e a Cameralística, e o implícito desapreço pela autonomia do sujeito que ela implica eram as sombras que pairavam à margem dos entusiasmados ideais republicanos de Dei Delitti e delle Pene
Cesare Guasco, Ragione e mito nell'arte di Luigi Pirandello
No full textJanssens Armand. Cesare Guasco, Ragione e mito nell'arte di Luigi Pirandello. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 54, n°41, 1956. pp. 165-166
Cesare Guasco, Ragione e mito nell'arte di Luigi Pirandello
No full textJanssens Armand. Cesare Guasco, Ragione e mito nell'arte di Luigi Pirandello. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 54, n°41, 1956. pp. 165-166
On the shape of optimal price and advertising strategies arising in innovation diffusion
No full textIn this paper we analyze a nonlinear optimal control model which is a slight modification of the one proposed in De Cesare L. and Di Liddo A. (2000) and describes the penetration of a new product in a market. The model deals with the choice of price and advertising strategies that maximize the profit coming from the product sale. Some theoretical features are investigated in corrispondence with specific choices for price responce functions
Pietro Verri’s Contribution to the Economic Theory of the 18th Century: Commercial Society, Civil Society and Governance of the Economy
No full text'Count Pietro Verri (1728-97) - Schumpeter writes (History, p. 178) - - would have to be included in any list of the greatest economists'. Within the Milanese school, he certainly stands out, alongside with Cesare Beccaria, during one of the most interesting periods from a history of analysis point of view. Luigi Cossa's famous introduction to the study of political economy rates Pietro Verri to be inferior to Beccaria in ingenuity and scientific cultivation, but greatly to be ahead of him as an economist.1 This judgement by Cossa, in particular, seems to echo the relative position of the two men in the history of ideas, particularly after Beccaria's rise to fame with a book - On crimes and punishments - which had in fact been largely inspired by Verri himself and defended by him.2 It is proposed in the present paper to revisit some of the basic tenets of Pietro Verri's political economy, with more in view than dwell on specific intuitions and theorems: namely relate those to Verri's own - quite original - conception of the economy. The scholarly work of Pietro Verri - with a special reference to his Meditazioni sulla economia politica of 1771 - provides the first systematic contribution stemming from the quarters of Lombard enlightenment in the field of political economy, especially so if one considers that Cesare Beccaria's parallel work - namely his Elementi di economia pubblica, conceived and drafted at the same time as Verri's Meditazioni - would only be published posthumously several years later. From the vantage point afforded by Verri's political economy, we gain a considerably attractive view of the most significant elements and characteristic concepts of Lombard enlightenment during the latter half of the 18th century; Verri, moreover, as we shall see, builds on a number of them in a new and original way. This paper is aimed at discussing Verri's political economy mainly along two distinct, but related, lines. In the first place the conception of commercial society is considered such as it is treated by the author particularly in his Meditazioni. In this perspective the analysis of such issues as competition and the market or money and taxation occupy a central place. Secondly it will be necessary to emphasise that Verri's approach has little to do either with forms of pure economics on one side - largely yet to be born throughout the 18th century - or, on the other side, with such conceptions of the polis - contrariwise well alive among his own contemporaries - as are founded on a sovereign authority conceived to be situated above the law. What Verri's political economy ultimately amounts to is an economic conception of civil society. The latter has natural strong connections with his own fact-mindedness - emphasised by Schumpeter - as well as with his deep practical involvement in administrative affairs and in the reforming process taking place during the latter half of the 18th century in Milan. In our view, a thorough investigation along the mentioned lines is the precondition for an understanding of the intellectual stature and of the scholarly contribution of Pietro Verri. His main ground is distinctly analytical and only by appreciating his analysis is it possible to shed light on the meaning and intellectual significance also of his practical contributions. Moreover Verri's pronouncements on the criticism of despotic government, the relevance of intermediate powers or bodies and on multiple levels of governance will be examined in a new and original light, showing how close they are to the gist of his analysis.
Fiscal policy delays and the classical growth cycle.
No full textThis paper deals with the impact of fiscal policy delays on the national income adjustment process. Here we reconsidered the pioneering work by Wolfstetter, who introduced the public sector in the well-known Goodwin’s classical growth cycle model, where the con- flict between capital and labor on the distribution of income is formalized. Unlike Wolf- stetter, we take into account two finite time delays characterizing the public economic activity. The former delay concerns the structure of the tax system and the government tax revenues; the latter pertains the political process governing the public purchase de- cisions and the actual expenditures. The result is a system of delayed differential equa- tions (DDEs). Choosing delay terms as bifurcation parameters, we proved the existence of Hopf bifurcations. Therefore, we studied the stability and the direction of the bifurcat- ing periodic solutions by using the first Lyapunov coefficient. Some numerical simulations carried out to support theoretical results show that, in the basic model, which coincides with the one by Wolfstetter. The effectiveness of policies (pro-cyclical and counter-cyclical) are strictly dependent on the length of the lags and on their particular combinations. As the basic model lacks an investment function, because investments passively equals the saving, we add that function taking into account the profit expectations. Furthermore, we assumed that the size of the public expenditure decreases quickly with the rise of the em- ployment rate. These new hypotheses are such that to yield an extended model, where, unlike the basic model, we proved that, without lags, a pro-cyclical policy does not assure the stabilization of the economy if the government adopts weak reduction of the public expenditure. In this case, regular cycles around the equilibrium arise. When the lags are positive, the government might stabilize the system only by a low discretional expendi- ture, if the policy is counter-cyclical, and by low reduction of its expenditure, if the policy is pro-cyclical. This on condition that some particular pairs of the two delays subsist
Maurizio Borda, Gino Funaioli, Luigi Pareti, Aldo Valori, Caio Giulio Cesare
No full textGerlo Aloïs. Maurizio Borda, Gino Funaioli, Luigi Pareti, Aldo Valori, Caio Giulio Cesare. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 27, fasc. 2, 1958. p. 485
Maurizio Borda, Gino Funaioli, Luigi Pareti, Aldo Valori, Caio Giulio Cesare, 1957
No full textRambaud Michel. Maurizio Borda, Gino Funaioli, Luigi Pareti, Aldo Valori, Caio Giulio Cesare, 1957. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 61, 1959, n°1-2. pp. 234-236
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