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Sviluppo economico e istituzioni: la prospettiva storica e l'attualità. Scritti in memoria di Massimo Finoia
No full textP. BINI, C. MAZZIOTTA, PresentazioneP. BINI, Introduzione, Massimo Finora, studioso e amicoPARTE PRIMASTUDI DI STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICOP. PORTA, Tradizione e innovazione negli studi economici nell’Italia del NovecentoE. ZAGARI, Il corporativismo come presunta sintesi fra liberismo e socialismoP. F. ASSO, Culture economiche a confronto. Una ricerca sulla diffusione del pensieroeconomico italiano negli Stati UnitiG. CONTI ODORISIO, Harriet Martineau tra economia e politicaL. VENTURI, La collana Finora”Scrittori italiani della moneta e della banca”PARTE SECONDAECONOMIA DELLO SVILUPPO E DEL MEZZOGIORNO D’ITALIAG. REY, Recenti indagini sullo sviluppo economico italianoM. D’ANTONIO, La politica dello sviluppo del mezzogiorno tra passato e presenteC. MAZZIOTTA, Capitale pubblico e sviluppo regionale: il caso del MezzogiornoPARTE TERZA ECONOMIA E ISTITUZIONIF. PADOVANO, E. GALLI, How does corporatism affect economic growth?G. C. ROMAGNOLI, La crisi economica in un’economia apertaB. BISES, Pubblico e privato nel finanziamento della culturaG. TRUPIANO, Valorizzazione dell’offerta culturale e sviluppo economico territorialeM. TRIMARCHI, Il valore economico della culturaG. GAROFALO, conclusion
Measuring Well-Being Over Time: The Adjusted Mazziotta–Pareto Index Versus Other Non-compensatory Indices
No full textComparing two non-compensatory composite indices to measure changes over time: a case study
No full textComposite indices are increasingly recognized as a useful tool to measure socio-economic phenomena such as quality of life, competitiveness, development, and poverty. Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the methodological issues associated with composite index construction, particularly non-compensability and comparability of the data over time. In this paper, we compare two non-compensatory composite indices for measuring multidimensional phenomena and monitoring their changes over time: the Adjusted Mazziotta-Pareto Index (AMPI) and the Mean-Min Function (MMF). The AMPI is a non-linear composite index that rewards the units with balanced values of the individual indicators. The MMF is a two-parameter function that allows compensability among dimensions with a cost that increases with unbalance and can be seen as an intermediate case between a compensatory and a full non-compensatory index. An application to a set of individual indicators of development in the Italian regions is also presented
A non compensatory composite index for measuring well-being over time
No full textIn the last decades, there has been a growing consensus among specialists and researcher that GDP per capita cannot alone explain the well-being in a geographical area. Several have been the attempts to construct alternative, non-monetary, indices of well-being by aggregating a set of individual indicators that represent different dimensions of well-being. The most famous, in Italy, are the Index of Regional Quality of Development and the “Il Sole 24 Ore” Quality of Life Index. An issue often not solved, from a methodological point of view, concerns the comparability of the data over time. In this work, we propose a variant of the Mazziotta-Pareto Index (MPI) which allows time comparisons of the level of well-being across geographical areas to be made
Replication Mazziotta et al. (2011, GPIR)
No full textAiming at testing the robustness of the effect of vicarious intergroup contact on willingness to engage in intergroup contact (Maziotta et al., 2011, GPIR) we will conduct a total of four experimental studies.
Two studies represent a relatively direct replication of Mazziotta et al.'s Study 2 (using similar measures, but new videos that have been adapted to a more relevant interethnic context). Two additional studies can be regarded as conceptual replications of the same study - using pictures depicting intergroup contact instead of videos.
All studies will be conducted online using community or student samples.
Effect of interest is the relationship between the vicarious intergroup contact manipulation and individuals' intergroup contact willingness. All other relationships analysed in the original study will be tackled as exploratory research questions
Methods for constructing non-compensatory composite indices: a comparative study
No full textComposite indices are being more and more used to measure multidimensional phenomena in social sciences. Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the methodological issues associated with index construction, such as non-compensability and comparability of the data over time. The aim of this paper is to compare two non-additive approaches: the Mazziotta–Pareto Index (MPI) and the Weighted Product (WP) method. The MPI is a nonlinear composite index that rewards the units with ‘balanced’ values of the individual indicators. The WP method implicitly penalizes the ‘unbalance’ and allows building, for each unit, two closely interrelated composite indices: a ‘static’ index for space comparisons and a ‘dynamic’ index for time comparisons. The MPI entails an equal weighting of the indicators, and only relative time comparisons are allowed. The indices based on the WP method give more weight to low values, and allow for both absolute and relative time comparisons. An application to indicators of well-being in the Italian regions in 2006 and 2011 is presented
Composite Indices of Development and Poverty: An Application to MDGs
No full textThe measurement of development or poverty as multidimensional phenomena is very difficult because there are several theoretical, methodological and empirical problems involved. The literature of composite indicators offers a wide variety of aggregation methods, all with their pros and cons. In this paper, we propose a new, alternative composite index denoted as MPI (Mazziotta-Pareto Index) which, starting from a linear aggregation, introduces penalties for the countries or geographical areas with 'unbalanced' values of the indicators. As an example of application of the MPI, we consider a set of indicators in order to measure the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and we present a comparison between HDI (Human Development Index) methodology, HPI (Human Poverty Index) methodology and MPI
Composite indices of development and poverty: an application on MDGs
No full textThe measurement of development or poverty as multidimensional phenomena
is very difficult because there are several theoretical, methodological and empirical
problems involved. The literature of composite indicators offers a wide variety of aggregation
methods, all with their pros and cons. In this paper, we propose a new, alternative
composite index denoted as MPI (Mazziotta-Pareto Index) which, starting from a linear
aggregation, introduces penalties for the countries or geographical areas with ‘unbalanced’
values of the indicators. As an example of application of the MPI, we consider a set of
indicators in order to measure the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and we present
a comparison between HDI (Human Development Index) methodology, HPI (Human
Poverty Index) methodology and MPI
Chapters of dependency grammar: a historical survey from antiquity to Tesnière Studies in language companion series ;, v. 212./ edited by András Imrényi, Nicolas Mazziotta.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early 20th century. From Priscian's Rome to Dmitrievsky's Russia, from the French Encyclopaedia to Stephen W. Clark's school grammars in 19th century America, it is shown how the concept of dependencies (asymmetric word-to-word relations) surfaced again and again, assuming a central place in syntax. A particularly intriguing aspect of the storyline is that even without any direct contact or influence, authors were making key breakthroughs in similar directions. In the works of Sámuel Brassai, a Transylvanian polymath, and Franz Kern, a German grammarian, the first dependency trees appear in 1873 and 1883, respectively, predating Tesnière's stemmas by several decades"--Aspects of the theory and history of dependency grammar / Nicolas Mazziotta and András Imrényi -- Syntactic relations in ancient and medieval grammatical theory / Anneli Luhtala -- The notion of dependency in Latin grammar in the Renaissance and the 17th century / Bernard Colombat -- How dependency syntax appeared in the French Encyclopedia : from Buffier (1709) to Beauzée (1765) / Sylvain Kahane -- Dependency in early sentence diagrams : Stephen W. Clark / Nicolas Mazziotta -- Sámuel Brassai in the history of dependency grammar / András Imrényi and Zsuzsa Vladár -- Franz Kern : an early dependency grammarian / Timothy Osborne -- Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen's structural syntax / Lorenzo Cigana -- The Russian trail : Dmitrievsky, the little drama metaphor and dependency grammar / Patrick Sériot.1 online resource
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