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R. Orecchia. - Bibliografia di G. del Vecchio (Bibliographie de Giorgio del Vecchio).
No full textR. Orecchia. - Bibliografia di G. del Vecchio (Bibliographie de Giorgio del Vecchio).. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 2 N°3, Juillet-septembre 1950. pp. 587-589
R. Orecchia. - Bibliografia di G. del Vecchio (Bibliographie de Giorgio del Vecchio).
No full textR. Orecchia. - Bibliografia di G. del Vecchio (Bibliographie de Giorgio del Vecchio).. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 2 N°3, Juillet-septembre 1950. pp. 587-589
Gustavo del Vecchio
No full textLa nota descrive sinteticamente la biografia scientifica di Gustavo del Vecchio. In particolare si richiama l'attenzione sui contributi di del Vecchio alla teoria del capitale e della distribuzione. In questi scritti, che furono raccolti nel volume Capitale e Interesse (del Vecchio, 1956), del Vecchio sviluppa un punto di vista originale centrato sulla distribuzione temporale dei capitali, sulla teoria dei depositi (rispetto alla produzione e rispetto alla circolazione), sulla teoria del credito e dello sconto. Le ricerche di analisi dinamica costituiscono un terzo fondamentale nucleo degli scritti di Gustavo del Vecchio. In questi studi, si richiama l'attenzione sul fatto che "le crisi attraversate dal nostro sistema economico sono fatti secondari di una economia progressiva e non si possono chiarire come perturbamenti di una economia statica" (del Vecchio, 1956, p. 16). Questo punto di vista collega gli studi di del Vecchio alle ricerche di Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1912) e spiega la sua posizione critica nei confronti della teoria keynesiana, sviluppata soprattutto nel saggio Costruzione scientifica della dinamica economica (del Vecchio, 1952). In questo scritto, del Vecchio richiama la sua concezione che "il ciclo ...è un fenomeno secondario del progresso economico" (del Vecchio, 1952, p. 415) e critica su questa base il contributo di Keynes: "L'economia keynesiana ignora per principio il lungo periodo: e i cicli dei suoi modelli vivono in un orizzonte economico limitato. Essi ci possono dare il meccanismo di certe oscillazioni. Ma non ci possono dare l'impulso che le mette in moto" (del Vecchio, 1952, p. 416)
Fostering the debate among scholars to support the advancement of knowledge in the food-related consumer research: A commentary
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Agri-Food Innovation and the Functional Food Market in Europe: Concerns and Challenges
No full textEurope has recently experienced an increase in several chronic diseases linked to dietary and lifestyle habits. As a result, enormous progress has been made to establish the scientific basis for food developments in the areas of health, nutrition and processing. The food industry has rapidly reacted to this trend by developing a growing variety of new products with health-related claims and images, including functional foods that are selected by consumers for their health-promoting properties. The European markets for functional foods are less developed in general than those in North America and Japan. This has often been ascribed to an inconsistent legislation and there is a broad consensus that there is a need for a regulatory framework in the European Union to protect consumers, promote fair trade, and encourage product innovation in the food industry. This article reviews the regulatory aspects of functional foods in Europe and offers an overview of the current market situation. Moreover, the main cognitive, motivational and attitudinal determinants of consumer acceptance of functional foods in different European countries are discussed, providing several practical insights. The insights presented could help practitioners make more effective strategic and tactical marketing decisions
Italian Consumer Attitudes toward Products for Well-being: The Functional Foods Market
No full textThe current paper investigates the factors which influence Italian consumers' behaviour towards functional food products and verifies the opportunities for further expansion of these products through a survey with a sample of 340 consumers responsible for family shopping. Findings show that there is a large number of factors that influence consumer purchasing behaviour. The empirical analysis emphasizes that, although Italian consumers are rather confused on the exact meaning of the term functional foods, their high interest on the bond between diet and health can be a potential element for the development of the demand of these food products. The work also provides a segmentation of the sample to verify the existence of homogeneous groups of consumers characterized by a different propensity towards functional food
Factors affecting use and understanding of nutrition information on food labels: evidences from consumers
No full textIn the past years, European population has experienced an increase in several chronic diseases linked to dietary and lifestyle factors. In particular obesity is increasing at an alarming rate all over Europe, while warnings about its diffusion have intensified. As a result nutrition-related measures are highly ranked in the agenda of the European Union political priorities. Specifically, at the end of 2011 the EU introduced new rules on food labelling requirements by adding a nutritional declaration. In this context the current paper explores factors affecting use and understanding of nutrition information on food labels in Italy and provides potentially useful assistance for the implementation of new nutrition labelling. Results of a direct survey on a random sample of 400 food shoppers identifies different profiles of consumers, through the use of PCA and Cluster Analysis. Main findings reveal the need to focus primarily on education campaigns and provide specific indications for developers and marketers as well as government bodies that are interested in designing consumer communication strategies and effective health programs
Functional foods development in the European market: A consumer perspective
No full textAn overview of the functional foods (FFs) market in Europe that ascertains the opportunities
for further expansion of this segment is presented. Consumer behavior towards FFs
was analyzed through a quantitative survey conducted on 400 Italian food shoppers. Our
findings reveal that respondents are confused due to the ambiguity of what FF products
are, and that consumers perceive products that are intrinsically healthy such as yogurt,
cereals and juice, as preferable and credible carriers of FFs. Moreover, use of principal components
analysis highlighted the key role played by the perception of healthiness in determining
shoppers’ attitudes towards FF
Willingness-to-pay for sustainability labelled chocolate: an experimental auction approach
No full textThis study evaluates young consumers' attitudes to sustainable food and analyzes the determinants of their willingness to pay (WTP) for chocolate bars with different sustainability labels. Data were collected through experimental auctions in Italy assessing respondents' (N = 80, aged between 18 and 35) WTP for chocolate bars with three selected labels (i.e. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance and Carbon Footprint). Econometric outcomes reveal that several socio-demographic factors exert a positive and statistically significant effect on WTP for all the selected chocolate bars, namely age cohort (older), gender (female) and household income (high). Respondents' lifestyles and food consumption habits also had an effect on final bids. This study offers valuable insights to policy makers and practitioners for efficiently targeting young consumers in campaigns to increase sustainability-labelled food consumption
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