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Policy Design for Research and Innovation
This book investigates the determinants of policy design choices in an area of public policy embracing multiple sectors of public responsibilities: Research and Innovation (R&I). Drawing on case studies from France and Italy, it assesses how governments design research and innovation policy strategies. It also examines how policymakers and stakeholders translate their interests into different design strategies, and the impact of varying political orientations and institutional setups on shaping choices for alternative policy instruments. Lastly, the book considers how the interactions between policy makers and policy takers influence policy design choices. It will appeal to scholars and students of comparative public policy, public administration, emerging technologies, and governance.
2nd Italian Conference on Economic Statistics (ICES 2024), Statistical Analysis of Complex Economic Data: Recent Developments and Applications, Book of Short Papers
In the most recent years, Economic Statistics, like other applied and non-applied sciences, has been involved in the new intense data revolution, which regards all research fields, especially for data collection and data processing issues. The traditional statistical measures, used to monitor economic activities, are transformed from slow and periodic recordings into real-time information, with the need to integrate different sources of information. Complex data offer additional information to analyse economic phenomena, although main problems are still open questions regarding methodological issues, costs of collection, storing and analysis. In the light of this new scenario, the 2nd Confer...
Adopting Circular Economy Current Practices and Future Perspectives
The development of a closed-loop cycle is a necessary condition so as to develop a circular economy model as an alternative to the linear model, in order to maintain the value of products and materials for as long as possible. For this motive, the definition of the value must be demonstrated for both the environment and the economy. The presence of these analyses should be associated with the social dimension and the human component. A strong cooperation between social and technical profiles is a new challenge for all researchers. End of life of products attract a lot of attention, and the final output could be the production of technologies suitable for managing this waste.
The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union
This book revisits the forgotten history of the 'European Dependency School' in the 1970s and 1980s, explores core-periphery relations in the European integration process and the crises of the contemporary European Union from a dependency perspective, and draws lessons for alternative development paths. Was disintegration of the European Union foretold? With the benefit of hindsight, the critical analysis of the European integration process by researchers from the 'European Dependency School' is most timely. The current framework of the European Union seems to be haunted by issues that had been very familiar to the researchers of the 'European Dependency School', such as a lack of a common and balanced industrial policy. How do the situations compare? What lessons can be learnt for alternative development policies in contemporary Europe? Weissenbacher tackles these issues, which are of relevance to all interested in political economy, political science, development studies and regional development.
A Sectoral Approach to the Diffusion of ICT
It is suggested that our understanding of ICT adoption in the Italian economy can benefit from complementary insights derived from some of the most important theoretical approaches to sectorial diffusion of innovation (epidemic, probit and systemic). As regards the epidemic models the key variables are firms' market performance indicators. Probit models call our attention to the size of user firms, their ability to utilize technology and the degree of industrial concentration. Systemic models emphasise the role played by the public sector, which is viewed as catalyst and stimulator of innovative activities in the industrial system, and by the evolution of the technological and infrastructural context in which users are active. We utilize a composite indicator, which describes the use of ICT in a sample of 1947 Italian firms in 2004 and 2005, as the dependent variable for an econometric exercise which allows to assess the importance of factors identified in the different approaches emerging from the existing literature.
Economic Policy and the Covid-19 Crisis
This book offers an assessment of the different monetary and fiscal policy responses that have been implemented by national governments in major European and Asian countries faced with the Covid-19 crisis since 2020; it also deals with the case of the US experience as a benchmarking example. The book provides a comprehensive cross-country comparative study on health crisis management at the macroeconomic level. Its focus on monetary and fiscal policies across different countries in Asia, Europe and the USA makes it unique. Divided into three parts following a general introduction that sets the context of the study, the book deals with the case of the USA, EU and European countries as well as...
Economic Crisis and Economic Thought
The ongoing economic crisis has revealed fundamental problems both in our economic system and the discipline which analyses it. This book presents a series of contrasting but complementary approaches in economic theory in order to offer a critical toolkit for examining the modern capitalist economy. The global economic crisis may have changed the world in which we live, but not the fundamental tenets of the discipline. This book is a critical assessment of the relation between economic theory and economic crises: how intellectual thinking impacts on real economic events and vice versa. It aims at challenging the conventional way in which economics is taught in universities and later adopted ...
Con i nostri soldi
Di fronte a una crisi che sembra non avere fine, il messaggio delle istituzioni europee e internazionali e del mondo politico è univoco: dobbiamo «rimettere a posto i conti pubblici», non ci sono alternative a sacrifici e austerità. Ma le cose stanno davvero così? Certo, esistono enormi sacche di inefficienza, ma spesso – e questo libro lo dimostra – sono diverse da quelle che l’Europa, e i governi di ogni colore, hanno messo alla gogna dell’opinione pubblica. Ed è proprio vero che bisogna tagliare la spesa pubblica? Questo libro dimostra che sono possibili tagli più efficaci di quelli drasticamente effettuati negli ultimi anni e meno dannosi per il benessere degli italiani. E lo fa partendo da una spiegazione chiara e critica dei meccanismi del bilancio dello Stato, che finalmente mette in grado il lettore di giudicare da sé le procedure e i contenuti della nostra spesa pubblica. Un libro prezioso e unico, che come già il precedente Finanza per indignati di Andrea Baranes può dare un contributo fondamentale alla costruzione di una vera cittadinanza critica.
O la Borsa o la vita
Un libro fondamentale per comprendere il presente e cambiare il futuro Di «sostenibilità» si parla ovunque: in ogni dichiarazione, in ogni discorso, in ogni accordo. Anche e soprattutto in ambito economico, è quasi impossibile trovare banche che non vantino la propria sostenibilità e la propria «attenzione all'ambiente»: le stesse banche, però, continuano a finanziare l'industria dei combustibili fossili con centinaia di miliardi di dollari l'anno. Questo paradosso (ma forse è meglio chiamarlo inganno) è alla base del nuovo libro di Andrea Baranes, uno dei più lucidi critici della finanza. In O la Borsa o la vita vengono svelate le contraddizioni di un sistema che si prefigge il m...
