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Sidney Armor Reeve: Engineer, Inventor, Progressive, and Underappreciated Utopian
No full textSidney Armor Reeve, professional engineer and amateur historian, economist,
and sociologist, writing during what has been described as the Progressive Era, attacked
the very foundations of the existing economic and social orders. He explicitly
criticized the dominant commercialism of the capitalist society as being a cancer, a major cause of inequality and unemployment, offering instead a program of reform that, while some reviewers characterized it as consistent with the program of the socialists, presented something of an alternative vision, one recognizing the primacy of the Ultimate Consumer. His remedy, favoring as it did the central control of the economy, shared at least commonalities with the reforms advocated by the socialist writers of the period, even as he himself rejected the label, unequivocally stressing points of fundamental disagreement
Does brick size matter? Albert G. Keller on another QWERTY story
Full text linkIn his seminal ‘‘Clio and the Economics of Qwerty’’, Paul David indicates Thorstein Veblen’s famous discussion of the British system of coal rail haulage as an intellectual antecedent to the idea of lock in. This note documents how Albert G. Keller, a Yale sociologist contemporary of Veblen, had presented
a similar argument in connection to the establishment of a brick tax in England and its effects on the size of bricks. Like Veblen, Keller used this illustration to emphasize the inertia exercised by certain institutional conditions
On John Bates Clark’s “Naive Productivity Ethics”: A Note
No full textThis article explores in detail the reactions among American economists to John Bates Clark's famously controversial claim that the marginal productivity theory of factor pricing and distribution is necessarily just. The general debate around Clark's “naïve productivity ethics,” as George Stigler sharply called it, transcended the then existing distinctions within the discipline and involved figures of virtually all theoretical and ideological persuasions—from prolabor progressives such as Richard T. Ely to staunch conservatives such as Thomas Nixon Carver. Our reconstruction reveals that, contrary to several standard historical accounts, for American early twentieth-century marginalism, let alone American economics at large, Clark's solution to the ethical problem of distributive justice was far more divisive than consolidating
Applicazione del morfismo pesato
No full textIl tema esposto nel presente contributo ha ad oggetto il raddoppio ferroviario nella Piana di Albenga.
Il tracciato preso in esame attraversa la Piana di Albenga costeggiando il mare per una lunghezza complessiva di circa 9950 metri.
La stazione è posizionata nel mezzo del centro urbano e segna il limite tra il tracciato ferroviario già raddoppiato e quello a binario unico, che prosegue verso la successiva stazione di Alassio.
Lo studio si inserisce nel più ampio contesto della valutazione ambientale e pertanto della VAS I, volta ad individuare azioni strategiche non riferite ad un singolo progetto ma ad un piano nel suo complesso, favorendo questioni di carattere generale e fornendo maggiori informazioni per una visione più completa delle tematiche trattate. Tale procedura rappresenta un presupposto essenziale per garantire un controllo preventivo degli squilibri ambientali indotti dalle attività antropiche, al fine di favorire uno sviluppo sostenibile, a partire da politiche, piani e programmi ed arrivando ai progetti. La VAS è eseguita prima che vengano prese, a livello di progetto, le decisioni più incisive e caratterizzanti
"Un approccio sistemico alla vulnerabilità del territorio: il caso di Cervo e del suo centro storico”
No full textThe years of Monte dei Paschi's disengagement 2012–2019
No full textWe review the critical phase of Economic Notes focusing on
the years from 2012 to 2019 when the Journal suffered
from the progressive disengagement by its founder, the
Monte dei Paschi di Siena. The main reason for that gradual
detachment is identified in the performance difficulties
Monte was suffering from. Against the progressive fading
away of the support provided by the Bank, the Journal
entered a halo of the potential crisis itself. However, soon
some measures were taken to allow Economic Notes to
develop new and autonomous ways to project its own
future. Specifically, we outline how the major changes in
the structure of the Editorial Board were conducive to
launching a new phase in which the Journal learned to rely
more and more on low!cost ways to gain visibility and
attract quality submissions. That new strategy materialized
through the widespread adoption of repeated Calls for
Papers to generate the consequent Special Issues. The
topics selected for the Calls for Papers were selected with a
view at themes that were policy!relevant and, whenever
possible, not too far from the potential interest of Montedei Paschi. We show that those Special Issues were
functional to engineer a recovery in the Journal's performance.
It was essentially owing to that resumed good health
and recovered resonance that when Monte finally abandoned
it Economic Notes was by and large equipped for the
new venture
Exogeneity in the Long View: Giovanni Demaria's Economics of Institutions
No full textIl saggio verte sul pensiero economico di Giovanni Demari
Financial Crises and Economic Depressions: An Introduction
No full textThe paper introduces a selection of essays presented at the annual meeting of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (STOREP), held in Florence in June 2009, whose thematic section was devoted to “Financial Crises in the Economists’ View”. It is argued that the volume offers a variety of historical perspectives on the crisis, based on the insights
provided by prominent authors working on the topic in the twentieth century, that, although largely forgotten in mainstream economic theory, may prove to be both enlightening to understand the actual causes of the crisis and instrumental to design the path to help the economy get out of it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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