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The reform of the common agricultural policy and the Siena memorandum
No full textSpecial Issue of the European Review of Agricultural Economics 11(2) edited by S. Tarditi and E. Croci Angelini ISSN 0165-158
La diffusione del vasellame bronzeo greco in Italia e in Europa: modalità e limiti
No full textIl lavoro prende in esame le modalità di diffusione in Italia e in Europa centrale del vasellame bronzeo greco di epoca arcaica, mettendo in evidenza l'esistenza di veri circuiti commerciali e di precise scelte nella distribuzione dei prodotti, con nuove proposte di attribuzione di importanti pezzi a produzioni di vasellame bronzeo greco già note.In this study the presence in Italy and centrale Europe of Greek archaic bronze vessels is examined, pointing out commercial routes and preferences in the distribution of the products, with some new attribution to greek bronze vessels production
THE EU AGRICULTURAL POLICY: A CONSUMER VIEWPOINT
No full textThe final objective of government intervention is the attainment of the 'common good' for society as a whole. Government are supposed to intervene in market economies mainly in order to offset market failures. However governments themselves often fail to maximise the common good, especially when private interests prevail. In the decision-making process of the CAP agricultural lobbies play a predominant role, without any substantial counterpart lobbying to defend the interest of society as a whole. Although, according to common sense, food surpluses and related budgetary costs (export subsidies, food storage, etc.) would disappear if public price support were dismantled, this elementary solution to the most important problems raised by the CAP was never fully accepted. The cost of the CAP, mainly due to the agricultural price and farm revenue support, amounts to almost 50% of the EU budget, paid by taxpayers. Moreover, according to OECD estimates, an almost similar invisible transfer of income to agricultural producers is borne by consumers paying higher market prices. Consequently, although agriculture accounts only for 1.7% of the Community GDP, the cost of the CAP as big as the total EU budget. The performance of sectoral economic policies is usually appraised on the grounds of three sub-objectives better specifying the broad dimensions of social well-being: economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability. The effects on economic efficiency are manifestly negative. Domestic market prices are distorted among farm products, capital and labour resources are retained in agriculture while their productivity for society as a whole would be much larger in other industries. If at least the CAP were consistent with structural adjustment in the long term then, sooner or later, the problem would be solved and the present waste of economic resources terminated. Unfortunately this is not the case as present distortions in market prices generate distorted investments. In terms of social equity, higher food prices act as a regressive tax on food burdening proportionally more worse-off households who spend a much larger share of their family budget on food than better-off households. On the other hand better-off farmers producing larger amounts of commodities whose price is supported get a much larger share of the benefits. As a result income disparities among citizens are increased. In terms of environmental sustainability the impact of farm price support is mixed. On the one hand higher farm prices stimulate the use of polluting inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides. On the other hand price support is likely to prevent serious problems in terms of depopulation or reduced environmental standards in some marginal regions. However these positive effects are circumscribed to specific areas and could be attained in a much more effective way by specific agri-environmental and agri-regional policy measures. According to the recent document of the Commission Agenda 2000, the very nature of the CAP will not be substantially changed before 20006. The worse aspects of the CAP in EU-15 will be reduced to a certain extent, but this positive impact on European social well-being is likely to be largely offset by the negative impact on new Member Countries which will have to accept the acquis communautaire in agricultural policy. In the Amsterdam Treaty a strong 'horizontal clause' is instituted by which Community Consumer Policy should also monitor the other EU policies both at Community and national level in order to protect consumer interests. Up to now the noxious effects of the agricultural price support policy could be cast to farm lobbies and to ill-informed policy makers, however in the future the Consumer Policy will be co-responsible for the reduction of social welfare generated by the CAP as well as by other sectoral policies.Agricultural and Food Policy,
Podemos: alla ricerca dell'equilibrio tra efficienza e democrazia
No full textUno degli effetti della crisi economica nelle democrazie del Sud Europa è stato l’emergere di nuovi partiti di protesta. un caso emblematico è certamente quello di Podemos in Spagna che, nato nel gennaio del 2014, ha mostrato di essere tutt’altro che un flash party, intraprendendo e procedendo lungo un percorso segnato da importanti successi elettorali. Esso ha ricercato il raggiungimento di una posizione mainstream, proponendosi al contempo come strumento di partecipazione cittadina, democratico e trasparente. È riuscito Podemos a conciliare le strategie per la realizzazione degli obiettivi primari (votes/offices) e di quelli operativi (democrazia/partecipazione)? È rispondendo a questa domanda che si potrà analizzare l’evoluzione e la trasformazione del partito, verificando il raggiungimento o meno di un equilibrio tra le esigenze legate alla dimensione elettorale e a quella organizzativa. L’ipotesi che si cercherà di dimostrare è che l’orientamento competitivo delle élites abbia ostacolato il raggiungimento degli obiettivi operativi, limitando la sua capacità di rinnovamento della forma-partito secondo un modello orizzontale e partecipativo
I bronzi greci e italioti
No full textpresentazione dell'instrumentum bronzeo di produzione greca ed italiota facente parte della Collezione Chini nel Museo Civico di Bassano del Grapp
I metalli: reperimento e commercio. Tecniche di lavorazione
No full textIntroduzione sulle modalità di reperimento e sulle principali tecniche di lavorazione dei metalli documentate in Magna Grecia dal periodo arcaico a quello ellenisticoIntroduction on the metals finding and principal working technology attested in Magna Grecia from the archaic to the hellenistic tim
Vasi di bronzo in area apula. Produzioni greche ed italiche di età arcaica e classica
No full textIl testo esamina la documentazione relativa al vasellame in bronzo di epoca arcaica e classica rinvenuto in area apula, evidenziando le differenti tipologie e produzioni attestate ed inquadrandole nel contesto di scambi culturali e commerciali con la Grecia e le altre regioni dell'Italia meridionaleThe study is about bronze vessels of archaic and classical time found in Apulia, with great attention on their typological and stylistical analisys and the connections with commercial and cultural exchange with Greece and other Italian region
Vasi e offerte in metallo
No full textpresentazione di alcuni frammenti di oggetti votivi in bronzo rinvenuti negli scavi condotti nel santuario di Atena a Castr
Idrie in bronzo a testa femminile di età arcaica: osservazioni sul tipo Sala Consilina
No full textEsame di una tipologia di idrie in bronzo di epooca arcaica e loro attribuzione ad una produzione peloponnesiac
Un "manico di patera" del Metropolitan Museum di New York
No full textUn manico di bacino conservato al Metropolitan Museum di New York, caratterizzato dall'insolita presenza di una figura di cicala, permette alcune osservazioni sulla ricorrenza di questo motivo decorativo e una proposta di attribuzione all'ambito produttivo ateniese
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