116 research outputs found
Social costs today: institutional analyses of the present crises. An introduction
No full textThis book deals with the causes of the present crises but it claims that causes and policy implications cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it contends that a more general approach is called for, based on social costs. It does not deal with social costs according to the Pigouvian or the Coasian traditions. It draws on the work of Original Institutional Economics (OIE) such as Thorstein Veblen, Karl William Kapp and Karl Polanyi, on post-Keynesians such as Hyman Minsky and, in general, on authors who have provided insights beyond the conventional wisdom of economic thought
In Charge of Themselves. The Social Costs of Workfare Policies in Europe
No full textQuesto capitolo pubblicato all’interno del volume “Social Costs Today. Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises”, curato da Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato e Paolo Ramazzotti, per l’editore Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, è esito di una procedura di peer review ed è il prodotto di una ricerca internazionale svolta da sociologi ed economisti sui temi della crisi economica che ha colpito il mondo occidentale a partire dal 2008. Il capitolo esamina la crescita dell'occupazione temporanea e l’introduzione di politiche di attivazione confrontando i diversi paesi europei e sottolineando le conseguenze sulla stratificazione occupazionale e sull’aumento di condizioni di precarietà lavorativa. L’articolo mette in luce come le strategie di deregolazione del mercato del lavoro associate alle politiche di attivazione, sono state soprattutto influenzate, in molti dei paesi esaminati, da un approccio di tipo workfare che interpreta la disoccupazione come un problema che riguarda essenzialmente l’offerta di lavoro. Ciò ha provocato scarsa efficacia degli interventi, crescenti costi sociali, mentre sono stati oscurati i costi sociali provocati dalle imprese e dai meccanismi di mercato
Il ‘lungo ragionamento’ di Karl William Kapp. Dalla teoria dei costi sociali ad una teoria bio-culturale dell’evoluzione istituzionale
No full textLa continuità della vita umana. Il contributo di K.W. Kapp verso la fondazione di una teoria sociale evoluzionaria
No full textFederico Caffè and Institutional Economics
No full textFederico Caffè was interested in institutional economics and can himself be considered an institutional economist. He is aware of the historical-institutional nature and the open-system character of the economic process, and is convinced of the need for an extensive public guidance of the economy in order to promote social welfare
Analysis of plant’s management for the improvement of a department producing high voltage electrical components
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Metabotropic glutamate receptors 1 and 5 differentially regulate bulbar dopaminergic cell function.
No full textEffects of activation of metabotropic glutamatergic receptors (mGluR) were investigated in mouse dopaminergic olfactory bulb neurons. After blockage of ionotropic receptors, focal application of glutamate or of group I/II mGluR agonist t-ACPD resulted in a depolarization, paralleled by an inward current in voltage-clamp conditions. The Group I agonist DHPG induced a depolarization, which could be largely blocked by mGluR1 antagonists. The DHPG action i) was prevented by buffering intracellular Ca(2+) with BAPTA and by a phospholipase C inhibitor; ii) was not affected by the block of Ca(2+) entry, and iii) was blocked by inhibitors of the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger. These observations were interpreted as a mGluR1-mediated intracellular Ca(2+) release, followed by the activation of an electrogenic Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger. The mGluR5 agonist CHPG induced a hyperpolarization of membrane potential, resulting in a decrease of the spontaneous firing frequency. CHPG induced i) a decrease in membrane resistance; ii) an increase in the action potential repolarization rate, and iii) an increase in the amplitude of the afterhyperpolarization. This was interpreted as a mGluR5-mediated opening of a K(+) conductance. These data suggest that mGluR1 and mGluR5 play different and non-overlapping roles in the regulation of the excitability of bulbar dopaminergic neurons
Construction and implementation of patterns for production planning and logistic optimisation in a wood manufacturing factory
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