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Crescita, istituzioni e dinamiche sociali
No full textLa ricerca affronta la relazione tra crescita economica e le dinamiche sociali e istituzionali, studiando anche la possibilità di intervento da parte dei policy makers. I quesiti cui si vuole fornire una risposta sono, fra gli altri,: “In che misura la protezione brevettale favorisce la crescita?”, “Quali sono le conseguenze per la crescita dei diversi regimi di politica scolastica?”, “Come si configura la relazione fra la crescita della conoscenza e la complessità degli spazi di ricerca e quali sono le sue implicazioni per la crescita economica?”, “Qual è il ruolo delle istituzioni che regolano il commercio internazionale nel favorire i processi di sviluppo economico?”. L'attività di ricerca si articola in sette temi: A. Dinamiche istituzionali B. Dinamiche sociali C. Eterogeneità degli agenti economici D. Conoscenza E. Tecnologia e Dinamica Strutturale F. Settore pubblico G. Istituzioni internazionali, Commercio e Sottosviluppo
Economic Logic with Internal Consistency (and Not Only Formal Rigour). Realism and Internal Consistency in Piero Sraffa
No full textAs is well known, during his life Sraffa never published a work explicitly devoted to epistemological issues. This fact should not be
interpreted to indicate Sraffa’s lack of interest in such concerns. From Sraffa’s unpublished manuscripts – kept at the Wren Library of Trinity
College, Cambridge, and from the books of his personal library – we see that Sraffa had a strong interest in questions of philosophy of
8science (Kurz and Salvadori, 2005). Therefore, a reconstruction of Sraffa’s epistemological theory can only be conjectural and must not
leave out of consideration his unpublished manuscripts. In a previous work (Salvadori and Signorino, 2007), we analysed a specific aspect of Sraffa’s epistemology, the threefold relationship between ‘economic reality’, ‘the economist’ and ‘economic theory’, and we focused almost exclusively on the published material and used unpublished manuscripts only sparingly to show that our statements based on the published contributions were confirmed by, or at least consistent with, the unpublished material. In this chapter, we shift our attention to a somewhat related theme, the relevance of the realism of the premises in the assessment of a theory, and we make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts, while being aware of the necessary caution in using material that an author has not published. (Caution is even more significant in the case of an author such as Sraffa who is particularly careful with his choice of words and extremely reluctant to publish anything except after a long period of reflection.)
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