Caffè’s thought was predicated on the two principles that economic policies should take values as their constitutive elements and that the central concern of economists should be something other than a general interest identifiable with that of individuals. If the general interest is...

This paper discusses some key implications of the view, emerged in the literature, that multinational firms organise their activities by connecting internal networks of subsidiaries with external networks of contractual relationships. It is argued that this view provides some useful elements for...

The paper examines the fragmentation of production from the view-point of industrialised countries. From this perspective, the following questions are addressed: how do local systems evolve in the process of de-localisation of productions? Which are the short term and long term effects to be...