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The One Savior Paradigm

2009

The one savior paradigm is discussed not only as doctrinal aspect of religious teachings but as one of mostly manifested aspect of our psychic, that should be adequately investigated. We suggest simple idea that could serve as starting cognitive model for the one savior paradigm, that might give effect in considering global aspects of humanity, e.g., such as global economy and exact sciences in more friendly connection with religious thinking.

Le determinanti del capitale sociale: analisi teorica e verifica empirica a livello micro e macroeconomico

2005

Il concetto di capitale sociale si e affermato, in ambito sociologico, a partire dalla fine degli anni ottanta grazie ai contributi di Pierre Bourdieu (1986) e James Coleman (1988, 1990). Nel corso degli anni novanta, la letteratura sul tema si quindi rapidamente ampliata, e la nozione di capitale sociale ha trovato applicazione anche in campo economico. In letteratura sono presenti molteplici definizioni di capitale sociale, le quali, benche in alcuni casi appaiano sostanzialmente differenti, hanno tutte un elemento comune: il riferimento a una dimensione relazionale del concetto. Il capitale sociale, e cio sembra essere opinione condivisa, si presenta come una risorsa fondata sull esisten…

Adam Smith and the family

2008

This paper examines Adam Smith’s vision of family life and the role of the family in society as it stems from the Theory of Moral Sentiments. We first discuss textual evidences of Smith’s vision of gender differences and of the relationships between the sexes. Then we turn to TMS’s analysis of marriage and family life, exploring the importance of sentiments in strengthening family bonds and in fostering individuals’ moral education. Then we enlarge our perspective, considering Smith’s view on the role of the family within society, especially as market and non market relationships are concerned. Finally, we focus on Smith’s vision of the possible threats which life in Commercial societies ma…

Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Econ Journal Watch. Also available from the publisher at: http://econjwatch.org/articles/ragnar-frisch-and-the-norwegian-postwar-economy. Open Access In the story of Norwegian economics, and of Norwegian economic policy and performance during the postwar years, a central place must be given to Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973). In 1969 he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in economics, together with Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994). In our view, the brighter parts of the story come only in the later years, and they involve the overcoming of Frisch's influence and legacy. As professor, Frisch started a grand project to establish economics as a science based o…

A reply to Olav Bjerkholt on the postwar Norwegian economy

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Econ Journal Watch. Also available from the publisher at: http://econjwatch.org/articles/a-reply-to-olav-bjerkholt-on-the-postwar-norwegian-economy Open Access Professor Olav Bjerkholt has provided a spirited critique of our 2014 article titled “Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy.” Here we reply briefly, noting that many of the quotations he provides actually support our interpretation, that it is naïve of him to play the ideology card, and that he offers no response whatsoever to our central point: that Norway’s postwar growth rates have to be understood in light of the country’s exceptionally high investment ratios, which meant …

Presentación del monográfico "El balance social en la economía social"

2001

GREAT ECONOMISTS` APPROACH ON THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY

2012

The current financial crisis triggered in 2007 has affected the economy of all countries in different ways, from the economic and social point of view, with serious consequences at the national level, as well as regional and international one. This paper proposes to identify the new direction to interpret the effect of current financial crisis above the economic and social process; also, we try to identify the steady of research in financial crisis problem.

La economía social como enfoque metodológico, como objeto de estudio y como disciplina científica

1999

This article continues an article written by the same author and published by CIRIEC-España in 1997 (no. 25). It analyses social economy at three cognitive levels: first, as a social reality (Social Economy); second, as a scientific discipline which studies its previous reality (the science of Social Economy); third, as a methodological approach in social sciences (the approach of Social Economy). The author claims that, at these three levels, social economy becomes an alternative way of “making the economy”.

Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State

2013

In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their “exclusiveness” we find that these hegemonies will be inefficiently “extractive” in the sense of having inefficiently high taxes, high compensation for state officials, and low welfare.

Teoría de la Participación. Sugerencias analíticas

2002

Human groups may be analysed as organisations of networks of relationships between their members. This article proposes an exercise in theoretic speculation about participation and democracy based on the analytic tools of a relational-informational theory the bases of which come from evolutionalism and the Information Economy. This analytical framework may clarify the nature of macro-collective citizenship, micro-formal group of the company and the fabric of the emergent and informal communicative relations of society and the market. As a humanist heuristic which revindicates the resource to literary and philosophic sources of knowledge, work offers alternative explainations to the preferen…