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See you in Valhalla: Comment on “Spleen: The failures of the cliometric school” by stefano fenoaltea
No full textMeasuring wellbeing: a History of Italian living standards
No full textA journey back in time to discover how the Italians defeated hunger, poverty, and premature death; how they transformed the peninsula into a modern and hospitable country, and how they managed to become a people among the most prosperous on the planet. Measuring Wellbeing documents this 150-year journey, beginning on March 17, 1861, the day the Kingdom of Italy was born. The narration follows the trajectories of a wealth of newly constructed historical statistics on consumption and income, nutrition and health, education, migration flows, and political freedom. In more than twenty years of research, Giovanni Vecchi has gathered tens of thousands of family budgets. This unique database allows the themes of economic inequality, poverty, and vulnerability to be placed at the center of the book. The focus shifts away from the “average” Italian; the story is not of some Italians but of all Italians, of the disparities in their incomes, their deprivation and their wealth, all the way from 1861 to the present. The collaboration of numerous scholars of international renown testifies to the quality of the research and the breadth of its scope. Measuring Wellbeing contains pages of original economic history, recounted with the intention not only of judging the past and understanding the present, but also of reflecting on the uncertainty of the future: for several decades now, the wellbeing of the Italian people has been at the crossroads between progress and decline
Quali lezioni dall'analisi della distribuzione della spesa familiare in Italia, 1881-1961?
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Spectral Filtering and Regularization of the Integral-Equation for Planar and Quasi-planar Structure
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Multilevel policy implementation and the where of learning: the case of the information system for school buildings in Italy
No full textThe paper builds on the case of the design and implementation of the National Information System for School Buildings in Italy. The project is one of digitalisation of the public sector and involves several layers of territorial governments (the State Department for Education, regional and local governments) and ICT experts, and is becoming a tool for policy making in the field. Nonetheless, the programme was initially designed with a top-down approach immediately stuck. Its effective implementation only took place some years later by downsizing policy design and allowing regions to implement those digital solutions which, in the meanwhile, had been designed and implemented from the bottom-up. The paper draws from the case study theoretical considerations about the importance of where policy learning happens and the strategies that policy makers may adopt in case of policy failure in order to re-establish the conditions for effectiveness
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