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L’idea di sviluppo in Siro Lombardini
Full text linkCondurre una riflessione sull’idea di sviluppo in Lombardini consente di mettere in luce la “prospettiva” - menzionata nel titolo del Convegno - che caratterizza le sue analisi. Ancorché con significativi risvolti di economia applicata è soprattutto un tema rilevante per analizzare il metodo di lavoro di Lombardini, aspetto al quale si porrà attenzione in questo contributo.
Tra i punti di riferimento possibili nella bibliografia di Lombardini si è scelto di individuare un termine iniziale in Fondamenti e problemi dell’economia del benessere del 1954 e un termine finale in Growth and Economic Development del 1996. La scelta di partire da Fondamenti e problemi dell’economia del benessere dipende dal fatto che l’economia del benessere è, all’inizio degli anni Cinquanta, uno dei punti di maggior possibile contatto tra la teoria economica e l’economia dello sviluppo. Essendo l’altro punto di contatto rilevante le teorie della crescita. Lombardini come è noto percorre abilmente entrambe queste linee di analisi. Per questo si guarderà al percorso di riflessione sullo sviluppo di Lombardini passante dall’economia del benessere, alle teorie della crescita, alla programmazione fino alla riflessione sull’esistenza o meno di un possibile unico modello di riferimentoReflecting on Lombardini's idea of development allows us to highlight the broad “vision” that always characterises his analyses. Among the possible points of reference in Lombardini's bibliography, we have chosen to identify an initial term in Fondamenti e problemi dell'economia del benessere (1954) and a final term in Growth and Economic Development (1996). The choice to start from his 1954 work, depends on the fact that welfare economics is, at the beginning of the 1950s, one of the best possible points of contact between economic theory and development economics. As the other relevant link was growth theory. Lombardini, as is well known, skilfully treads both these lines of analysis. For this reason, the paper looks at Lombardini's reflections on development, starting from welfare economics, shifting from growth theories to planning policies and finally leading to the reflection on the existence or not of a single possible reference model for the development of specific institutional contexts
A Strong, Deeply Felt, Social Concern
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to look at Pasinetti’s work, as a distinctive member of the Cambridge School of Keynesian Economics, and consider if and how social concerns constitute a pillar of his scientific research. Primary literature is therefore the main source of this paper. After having traced Pasinetti to Cambridge School, we look at his critique of mainstream economics. We then consider his analysis of the Industrial Revolution's “production paradigm” and the need to move from a pure exchange model to a pure production model. Furthermore, we show how this new paradigm is linked to the analysis of specific, crucial issues: the centrality of labour; the social function of capital; and the role of the institutions. The influence of the Italian tradition of economic thought and of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church is discussed through the lens of the importance Pasinetti attributed to the aims of economic research and the challenges imposed by globalizatio
L'ultima spedizione garibaldina in Grecia (1912)
No full textSu base archivistica ricostruzione della spedizione capeggiata da R. Garibaldi in Grecia nel 191
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Monetary Analysis, Financial Innovation and Institutions before the Industrial Revolution: a Paradigm Case
No full textWe hope nevertheless that everyone will learn for the future the lesson that the financial economy and the real economy should never be split to a degree that the former could be perceived by the public as merely a «paper economy» or worse as a «waste paper economy». ... These effects call for the role of Institutions which must never be neglected, in order to have well-functioning markets. (Quadrio Curzio, 2008, p. 370) 1. Introduction The assumption that there is a necessary connection between the real and the monetary/financial sides of the economy is a central theme of this volume. These two sides cannot be divorced, because their coordination and harmonization is a necessary condition for a well-functioning economic system. A ‘paper economy’, and the monetary/financial institutions that support it, can facilitate economic transactions because liquidity is a necessary ingredient of economic activity in a monetary economy. Nevertheless, when the virtuous circle between the monetary/financial institutions and the real economy is disrupted, the stage is set for economic disorder, with consequences that may go beyond the strictly economic realm and impact on the political and social spheres of human activity. The risks of such disruptions are so great that appropriate institutions should be devised in order to prevent their occurrence, thereby promoting well-functioning markets and healthy economic relations. The integration of the monetary sector into the analytical framework of structural analysis has a double rationale. Firstly, structural analysis includes, and indeed requires, an understanding of how different sectors interact in shaping the evolution of the whole economy. Now, the financial/monetary sector has been an integral, important part of the economy since the Middle Ages. Consequently, this analytical framework would be incomplete without the analysis of the interactions between the real and the monetary/financial sectors of economic systems. In particular, one aspect of structural economic dynamics concerns technical progress
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
La Computational Economics nella riflessione di Siro Lombardini
No full textSiro Lombardini, uno dei massimi economisti italiani del XX secolo, introdusse nella pratica della scienza economica nuovi approcci metodologici, anche attraverso l'ispirazione che gli veniva dal coltivare, con attenzione e curiosità, altre discipline. Il saggio da' conto di uno di questi approcci, denominato computational economics
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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