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Between Two Empires. Histoire des deux Indes And Modern Colonialism
No full textThe article critically analyses the late eighteenth century process of crisis and transformation of the concept of empire. By considering Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes and the Enlightenment’s critique of the different imperial models, Pandolfi reconstructs the transit from classic colonialism – built around the relations between settlers, savages and slaves – to another phase characterized by the indirect exploitation of the labour force. The text underlines the ambivalence of Enlightenment towards the question of the empire by demonstrating how Raynal’s work reflects the constitutive tension of the second half of the 1700s. Therefore, through Diderot’s analysis, the author demonstrates how the moral advancement of humanity is the product of a constant interaction between the colonial rhetoric of commerce and those revolutions, which, – in different moments and places – have crossed the colonial space
In memoria di Alessandro Pandolfi
No full textIn memoria di Alessandro Pandolfi (8 luglio 1955 – 11 maggio 2017) Pubblichiamo il ricordo di Augusto Illuminati e la relazione di Alessandro al nostro seminario: Cliccare qui per il ricordo di Augusto Illuminati Cliccare qui per ascoltare la sua relazione al seminario marxiano su Marx e Foucault
Babel: sito bibliografico sull'opera di Edgar Morin
No full textThe Babel project started at CeRCo (Research Centre on Antropology and Epistemology of Complexity, University of Bergamo, Italy) in october 2003. It is intended to collect Edgar Morin's whole bibliography in a free access web resource.
The Babel data base contains now 872 bibliographic records. Future work includes collecting all other references of Edgar Morin's publications, in all languages and formats; and storing a number of full texts yielded by the Author
In memoria di Alessandro Pandolfi
No full textIn memoria di Alessandro Pandolfi (8 luglio 1955 – 11 maggio 2017) Pubblichiamo il ricordo di Augusto Illuminati e la relazione di Alessandro al nostro seminario: Cliccare qui per il ricordo di Augusto Illuminati Cliccare qui per ascoltare la sua relazione al seminario marxiano su Marx e Foucault
The effectiveness of promotion incentives for public employees: evidence from Italian Academia
No full textWe investigate how promotion incentives affect the productivity of a large sample of high-skilled public employees: academics. In a fuzzy regression-discontinuity design, we exploit the three bibliometric thresholds of the 2012 National Scientific Qualification (NSQ), the centralized evaluation procedure regulating career advancements in Italian universities. We compare the 2013-2016 research productivity of assistant professors barely qualified for associate professor – whose next goal becomes meeting the higher thresholds for the full professor qualification – with the productivity of candidates who barely miss the qualification – whose goal remains meeting the associate professor thresholds. We find that barely qualified scholars publish significantly more papers than their non-qualified colleagues, in journals of comparable quality. Our results emphasize the importance of promotion incentives as an effective incentivizing tool in public universities and more in general public organizations
Seep carbonates and chemosynthetic coral communities in the Bocco Shale (Internal Ligurides, Northern Apennine, Italy) as record of trench-slope limit in the Early Paleocene alpine accretionary wedge
No full textIn Northern Apennines, the Internal Liguride units are characterized by an ophiolite sequence that represents the stratigraphic base of a Late Jurassic-Early Paleocene sedimentary cover. The Bocco Shale represents the youngest deposit recognized in the sedimentary cover of the ophiolite sequence, sedimented just before the inception of subduction-related deformation history.
The Bocco Shale has been interpreted as a fossil example of deposits related to the frontal tectonic erosion of the alpine accretionary wedge slope. The frontal tectonic erosion resulted in a large removal of material from the accretionary wedge front reworked as debris flows and slide deposits sedimented on the lower plate above the trench deposits. These trench-slope deposits may have been successively deformed and metamorphosed during the following accretion processes.
The frontal tectonic erosion can be envisaged as a common process during the convergence-related evolution of the Ligure-Piemontese oceanic basin in the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary time span.
In the uppermost Internal Liguride tectonic unit (Portello Unit of Pandolfi and Marroni. 1997), that crops-out in Trebbia Valley, several isolated blocks of authigenic carbonates, unidentificated corals and intrabasinal carbonatic arenites have been recognized inside the fine-grained sediments that dominate the Early Paleocene Lavagnola Fm. (cfr. Bocco Shale Auctt.).
The preliminary data on stable isotopes from blocks of authigenic carbonates (up to 1 m thick and 3 m across) and associated corals archive a methane signatures in their depleted carbon isotope pattern (up to δ13C –30‰ PDB) and suggest the presence of chemosynthetic paleocommunities.
The seep-carbonates recognized at the top of Internal Liguride succession (cfr. Bocco Shale Auctt.) occur predominantly as blocks in very thick mudstone-dominated deposits and probably developed in an environment dominated by the expulsion of large volume of cold methane-bearing fluids focused in the frontal part of the Early Paleocene alpine accretionary wedge
Cutting through the fog: financial literacy and financial investment choices
No full textThis paper examines the impact of financial literacy on the individual propensity to invest in financial assets. In a laboratory experiment with a two-by-two design, we study how the certainty equivalent of a risky lottery changes when varying the lottery framing and the participants’ financial literacy level.We fi nd that presenting the lottery as a financial asset – whose payoffs need to be computed from a given return rate – rather than as a simple coin toss reduces the average value participants assign to the lottery by approximately 20% and lowers their understanding of the lottery’s structure. Enhancing financial literacy by explaining the basic financial concepts involved in the description of the financial-asset lottery, offsets the negative effects of the financial framing: it improves respondents’ understanding of the lottery and increases the certainty equivalent. Our results – which can be rationalized by ambiguity aversion – shed new light on the linkages between financial literacy and financial investment behavior. Additionally, they highlight the importance of promoting financial education to stimulate households’ financial market participation
27.01.2017 A. Pandolfi Biopolitica e lotta di classe: Foucault & Marx
No full textGruppo di ricerca sui processi di soggettivazione politica nella società contemporanea Seminario Marx e il marxismo: nei dintorni del soggetto Venerdì 27 gennaio 2017 ore 15.30 Aula seminari Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali Via del Santo 28 Alessandro Pandolfi (Università di Urbino) Biopolitica e lotta di classe: Foucault & Marx Bibliografia di riferimento: Balibar, 2015, 1, Lettre d’Étienne Balibar à l’éditeur du cours, in M. Foucault, Théories et institu..
"Cristallinità " di illite e clorite nelle Unità Liguri dell'Alta Val Trebbia (Appennino Settentrionale)
No full textIllite and chlorite "crystallinity" and phyllosilicate parageneses have been employed to characterize very-low grade metamorphism in tectonic units of Trebbia Valley (Mt. Gottero Unit and Helminthoid Flysch Unit).
Illite "crystallinity" values (Kübler index) indicate anchizone conditions for Mt. Gottero Unit (x = 0.35° as Δ2θ) and late diagenesis conditions for Helminthoid Flysch Unit (x = 0.46° as Δ2θ).
Chlorite "crystallinity" index has a mean value of 0.22° Δ2θ) in the Mt. Gottero Unit and a mean value of 0.30° (Δ2θ) in the Helminthoid Flysch Unit.
Illite + chlorite paragenesis characterizes samples from Mt. Gottero Unit, while illite + chlorite ± kaolinite ± randomly interstratified illite/smectite ± randomly interstratified chlorite/smectite is the paragenesis of Helminthoid Flysch Unit. Phyllosilicate parageneses are in good agreement with the metamorphic grade assigned through illite and chlorite "crystallinity" measurements.
The different metamorphic grade found in the Mt. Gottero Unit and in the Helminthoid Flysch Unit fit very well with their tectonic setting and allows to locate with a good precision the tectonic contact between them in the examined area
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