Ethnicity has been constructively attacked from the perspective of conflict management and constitutional engineering within several countries in Africa. African leaders have recognized the problem of ethnicity and have sought to address it through many and varied schemes. This paper analyses...

Recenti fatti di cronaca hanno portato all’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica la presenze in Italia di forme schiavistiche di lavoro; la schiavitù sembra riguardare prevalentemente il lavoro migrante. Ben maggior rilievo nelle nuove forme di sfruttamento assume il lavoro servile: esso...

Il contributo cerca di delineare un certo modo di concepire la prospettiva dell’invecchiamento attivo e un certo modo di ragionare sul tema dell’apprendimento permanente, con particolare riguardo a quello in età avanzata - nonché di connettere i due ordini di considerazioni. Per il primo...

La relazione complessa tra persone anziane e città caratterizza da sempre la condizione urbana. In questo breve testo le persone anziane sono considerate oltre che un settore problematico della società anche un risorsa, per attivare la quale appare necessario costruire una struttura intermedia...

Competition among firms has been suggested to reflect the ruthless logic of Darwinian selection: a free market is a struggle for survival, in which successful firms survive and unsuccessful ones die. This view appears to bolster three pillars of neoclassical economics: (1) that economic actors...

If the minerals and metals sector is to contribute successfully to sustainable development, it must adopt principles and practices which address the entire life cycle of the materials it creates. This paper examines how the social and environmental sustainability performance of products...

Although age is not supposed to be a criterion for the award of the Nobel Prize, it is commonly believed that it does play a role. Indeed, econometric evidence in this paper also suggests such a role. However, the paper finds that, if there is a preference for older Nobel candidates, this is...

In many datasets, articles are classified into sub-fields through the journals in which they have been published. The problem is that many journals are assigned to a single sub-field, but many others are assigned to several sub-fields. This paper discusses a multiplicative and a fractional...

This paper evaluates the European Paradox according to which Europe plays a leading world role in terms of scientific excellence, measured in terms of the number of publications, but lacks the entrepreneurial capacity of the U.S. to transform this excellent performance into innovation, growth,...

This paper investigates the citation impact of three large geographical areas -- the U.S., the European Union (EU), and the rest of the world (RW) -- at different aggregation levels. The difficulty is that 42% of the 3.6 million articles in our Thomson Scientific dataset are assigned to several...