This note is concerned with qualitative restrictions on individual binary preferences of decision makers over profiles of individual actions to account for intersubjective sensitivity to welfare, or preferences, of others, when numerical representations by utility functions fail, due to...

A review essay of : T. Cozzi, R. Marchionatti (eds), Piero Sraffa’s Political Economy, London: Routledge, 2001 ; M. Pivetti (ed.), Piero SraVa. Contributi per una biografia intellettuale, Roma : Carocci, 2000 ; H. D. Kurz (ed.), Critical Essays on Piero Sraffa’s Legacy in Economics,...

If consumption takes time, then a time constraint may reduce the consumer's freedom when buying goods. Some implications of Steedman's approach are examined in this paper; some variations on the theme are considered and compared. Finally, the notion of time as a context may lead to developments...

In this work we compare three alternative procedures aimed at selecting a private partner in PPP projects: i.e. negotiation, auction and competitive negotiation. We show how the suitability of each of these selection mechanisms depends on many economic and institutional factors: e.g. the extent...

Between 1943 and 1947 a new economic order was founded, which aimed at implementing multilateral trade, international monetary cooperation and economic stability supported by government intervention. This paper describes the contribution provided to this process by a group of American economists...

The recent literature about the so called brain drain assumes that destination countries are characterized not only by higher wages than the source country, but also by a higher or at least not lower relative return to skill. As this assumption has a doubtful empirical validity, we assess...

L'obiettivo di questo articolo è quello di analizzare come la letteratura economica ha studiato le relazioni che possono instaurarsi tra istruzione, democrazia e crescita economica. La prima parte del lavoro propone una sintetica rassegna di tre filoni di ricerca che hanno esaminato...

We analyse voting on devolution of responsibilities for the provision of public goods to local governments in a federal country, with a bicameral national legislature. We suppose that devolution is a …scal reform which reduces federal public expenditure on a national public good, and...

Despite its recent economic development, Egypt employment inequalities among gender and between different age cohorts are still an unresolved issue. In this work we apply a Multilevel Generalized Linear Mixed Model to the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey 2006 (ELMPS 2006) and 2012 (ELMPS...