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Economia fondamentale. L'infrastruttura della vita quotidiana
No full text[Quarta di copertina]: L’economia fondamentale è la base materiale del benessere e della coesione sociale. È quel che ogni giorno dovremmo poter dare per scontato: acqua potabile sicura, energia elettrica non razionata, servizi sanitari evoluti e accessibili, istruzione avanzata gratuita, infrastrutture e trasporti pubblici efficienti, servizi di cura per bambini e anziani, mercati alimentari orientati al benessere dei consumatori e dei produttori di cibo. Da molti anni i Paesi europei seguono una strada diversa: l’economia fondamentale è messa al servizio del business, esasperando competitività e orientamento al profitto. Il prezzo che paghiamo è l’inasprimento delle disuguaglianze, la dissoluzione dei legami sociali, la deriva populista e nazionalista. Rinnovare l’economia fondamentale richiede un enorme sforzo di immaginazione istituzionale. Questo libro lo prefigura, offrendo una piattaforma per un nuovo riformismo progressista, non liberista, di scala europea
The grounded city:from competitivity to the foundational economy
Full text linkThis article develops the concept of the ‘grounded city’ to argue that the development of cities can be analysed through specific accelerators and stabilisers. The city is grounded through its relation with a hinterland, which provides resources and revenues and thus governs city development. In modern cities, property development is an increasingly important accelerator, which shapes what is built and where. At the same time, the foundational economy—which meets the everyday needs of citizens for housing, utilities, food and mobility—is a stabiliser. It suggests a focus on controllable internal accelerators and stabilisers to improve the quality of foundational provision, rather than a view of cities competing for resources to pursue success through agglomeration
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
Is the stock market a disciplinary institution? French giant firms and the regime of accumulation
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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