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Innovation and economic change
No full textThis article takes stock of the search for effectively integrating the analysis of technological change in economic theory, pointing out the need for bridging Schumpeterian and evolutionary perspectives on innovation with post-Keynesian approaches to growth and structural change. The challenge facing scholars in this field is to account for the diversity and complexity of technological change while addressing at the same time macroeconomic and structural dynamics, issues of demand and distribution. This challenge is addressed in various ways by the articles published in this special issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technologies and a summary of their contribution is provided in this opening article. They have in common an exploration on issues at the frontier of innovation research, attention to industry-level dynamics, novel – and widely different - methodological and modelling tools. The results of these articles are discussed in the light of the research trajectories investigating the two-way links between innovation and economic change
Why Europe needs a public investment plan
Full text linkIn the continuing stagnation of European economies the persistence of inadequate demand is playing a crucial role that deserves greater attention. First, we are in a context of slower international growth where world trade is growing slower than world GDP; exports are not in the position to be the driver of renewed growth for Europe. Private consumption has suffered from stagnating growth and from the rise in inequality that has compressed lower incomes. Public expenditure has been reduced or contained by the austerity measures required by current European policies lowering its expansionary potential for the economy. Investment – that is by definition pro-cyclical – has failed to return to growth. This worrying situation – that extends well beyond Europe - has been aptly summarised by the title of the last IMF World Economic Outlook of October 2016: “Subdued demand. Symptoms and remedies”.
The focus of this article is on the lack of investment and on the important role that a public investment plan at the European scale could play in ending the long European stagnation
Il movimento per la pace in Italia : politica e conflitti negli anni ottanta e novanta
No full textolitical and international context of such mobilisations. The roots of the protest are found in the values, ideas and identities of peace activists, and a reconstruction is provided of major mobilizations, of the novel forms of struggle and of the ability to develop alternative policy frameworks for addressing conflicts. The overall impact of peace campaigns on politics, in the short and long term, is finally considere
Urbanization, state and capital in the theories of Manual Castells and Jean Lojkine
No full textIn recent years, a new stream of research has related urbanisation to economic and social processes. The works of Manuel Castells and Jean Lojkine have provided two major theoretical contributions. In this paper they are analysed and discussed in the light of the present debate in France and Britain.-Autho
Italy’s Political Turmoil and Mario Draghi’s European Challenges
Full text linkAbstract Italy’s economy is not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels before the first half of 2023, and an early return to budgetary constraints would be disastrous
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