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Lo spirito di fronte al male. L'ultima filosofia di Giovanni Gentile
No full textThe essay retraces Giovanni Gentile’s philosophical production
from 1943 until his death in 1944, 15 April. Focusing
on Genesi e struttura della società, the author investigates the
most signifi cant theoretical differences between this last book
(published in 1946, after Gentile’s death) and the philosophical
works written twenty years before, Fondamenti di Filosofi a
del diritto and Teoria generale dello spirito come atto puro. The
author points out concepts such as evil and death in these
books and studies their different elaboration in Gentile’s last
book, considering a possible link between these changes and
the anxiety or moral suffering that the philosopher might have
felt facing the Nazi Fascist crimes
Las Casas et le licencié Cerrato
No full textBataillon Marcel. Las Casas et le licencié Cerrato . In: Bulletin Hispanique, tome 55, n°1, 1953. pp. 79-87
Entanglement degradation in the presence of Markovian noise: A statistical analysis
Get PDFAdopting a statistical approach we study the degradation of entanglement of a quantum system under the action of an ensemble of randomly distributed Markovian noise. This enables us to address scenarios where only limited information is available on the mechanisms that rule the noisy evolution of the model. As an application, we characterize the statistic of entanglement deterioration for a quantum memory formed by n qudits that undergo randomly distributed local, uniform, Markovian noise evolution
Il silenzio dell’atto puro. Giovanni Gentile e la questione morale
No full textThe essay retraces Giovanni Gentile’s theoretical and political production from 1943 until his death on the 15th april 1944. The author investigates the reasons that led the philosopher to engage with the Italian Social Republic and underlines how Gentile, in his writings and speeches, always calls for national peace, in order to defend the country’s unity despite the ongoing war. Once Gentile’s political position is reconstructed, the second part of the paper deals with the most significant theoretical changes regarding the philosopher’s last volume Genesi e struttura della società. Then, the author considers a possible link between the anxiety or moral suffering that the philosopher might have felt facing the Nazi Fascist crimes and some pages of the volume in which there is a reflection on the conflictual nature of the social being and on the problem of death
Panel Data Tests of PPP. A Critical Overview
Get PDFThis paper reviews panel unit root and cointegration tests in the context of PPP. It highlights various drawbacks of existing methods. First, unit root tests suffer from severe size distortions in the presence of negative moving average errors. Second, the common demeaning procedure to correct for the bias resulting from homogeneous cross-sectional dependence is not effective; more worryingly, it introduces cross-correlation when it is not already present. Third, standard corrections for the case of heterogeneous cross-sectional dependence do not generally produce consistent estimators. Fourth, if there is between-group correlation in the innovations, the SURE estimator is affected by similar problems to FGLS methods, and does not necessarily outperform OLS. Finally, cointegration between different groups in the panel could also be a source of size distortions. We offer some empirical guidelines to deal with these problems, but conclude that panel methods are unlikely to solve the PPP puzzle.Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Panel unit root and cointegration tests, Cross-sectional dependence
Espressione e vita. Lo Spinoza di Gilles Deleuze
No full textThe essay considers Gilles Deleuze’s writings on Spinoza (Spinoza and the Problem of Expression and Spinoza. Practical Philosophy) and both the elements of continuity among the different Deleuzian readings of Spinoza and the specific differences of each work are highlighted. It will be observed how in the two works there is a strong attention towards the Spinozian concepts of immanence and univocity. However, if the first one has a certain structuralist setting out in the reading of Deleuze, this characteristics seems to weaken progressively, in favor of an understanding of Spinoza’s thought as a practical philosophy and ethics that is primarily open to the experience of singularity. The Deleuzian interpretation of Spinoza is reconstructed in its internal logics, but also on the background of the French philosophical historiography on the author, that is coeval to Deleuze’s volumes
The Multinational Enterprise as an Internal Market System
No full textThis paper builds on Birkinshaw’s model of multinational enterprise (MNE) as an internal market system
[Birkinshaw, J. (2000). Entrepreneurship in the global firm. London: Sage]. This model addresses the issues
related to the emergence of market-based mechanisms of coordination within the MNEs and the strategic
decisions that affect internal competition. Birkinshaw argues that subsidiaries simultaneously participate in
three different internal markets within an MNE:a market for intermediate goods and services, one for charters
and another for competencies and practices. The goal of the paper is to expand Birkinshaw’s concept of
internal market and analyze the logic behind internal competition by considering more fully existing
literature and developing an organizing framework to position such a model within that literature. There is
specific focus on discussing how the internal market model relates to modern network-based configurations
of the MNE. In addition, the study shows that factors affecting the extent to which each of the three internal
markets is established can be better understood if we link such a model to the contributions developed by three
mainstreams of research: internalization theory, resource-based view and organizational learning literatur
Paura. Forme della percezione e strategie di governo ne "Les Passions de l’âme" e nell’ "Ethica"
No full textFear. Form of Perception and Government Strategies in Les Passions de l’ âme and in Ethica
My paper focuses on the analysis of the terms «dread» and «fear» both in The Passions of
the Soul, where Descartes respectively indicates them as Crainte and Peur, and in Spinoza’s
Ethics, where the author uses the words timor and metus. First of all, I underline the characteristics,
the relevance and the usefulness of these affections, together with the strategies of
control used to prevent their transformation into passions that inhibit rational action. I will
then expose the divergence of views in Descartes and Spinoza pertaining the delineation of
these affective conditions, as well as, in the second part of my paper, I focus on the analogies
concerning the rational strategies the human being can assume in order to handle dread and
fear. Besides Descartes e Spinoza, it is necessary to recall Hobbes’s Leviathan, since this
work is a consistent and relevant source for Spinoza, as far as the conception of fear as a peculiar
perception of past and present is concerned
La collaborazione tra università e industria: un’indagine sui brevetti co-generati in Italia
No full textIl sistema della ricerca universitaria mostra un significativo incremento nella capacità di generare nuove brevetti. Tuttavia, i tassi di valorizzazione commerciale di tali brevetti da parte delle imprese appaiono ancora piuttosto limitati. Risulta, pertanto, interessante investigare i fattori che possono favorire il coinvolgimento delle imprese nella ricerca accademica finalizzata alla produzione di innovazioni brevettabili. Sulla base di un campione di 282 brevetti, provenienti da docenti appartenenti a sette università italiane, il lavoro analizza l’incidenza di tre fattori sulla collaborazione tra ricerca e industria: a) la qualità della ricerca accademica dei docenti-inventori; b) la capacità innovativa del sistema industriale nella Regione dell’ateneo; c) l’esistenza di specifici cluster tecnologici su base locale. I risultati dell’analisi empirica suggeriscono che i fattori legati al contesto regionale ed al tessuto imprenditoriale locale giocano un ruolo significativo nel favorire il coinvolgimento delle imprese nella produzione di brevetti con docenti universitari, mentre la qualità della ricerca accademica non sembra influenzare la decisione delle imprese di collaborare con i docenti universitari.The academic research system shows a significant increase in the generation of new patents, but the capacity to transfer these patents to firms interested in their economic exploitation is still limited. It is therefore interesting to investigate the factors affecting firms’ involvement in the academic research that could lead to patentable results. Drawing on data from a sample of 282 patents from academic inventors of seven Italian universities, this paper focuses on three possible drivers of university-industry collaboration: a) the quality of the research of academic inventors; b) the innovative capability of the industrial system in the Region where the university is located; c) the existence of a technology cluster in the university’s local context. Our results suggest that factors relating to the local industrial environment play a significant role in favoring the industry involvement in academic patents, while the quality of research does not turn into significantly affect firms’ decisions to collaborate with academic researchers
Discurso teórico-práctico sobre los males políticos y morales que causa a las naciones la riqueza en el sistema militar según los principios del literato D. Álbaro Flores Estrada [sic] aplicados a la situación política de las repúblicas que baña el Plata...
No full textAutoría atribuida a Francisco de Borja Magariños y Cerrato en nota ms. en el ejemp. propiedad de la Bca. de la Univ de Texas, Benson collection (F 2846.3 D573
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