This paper studies the case of the Marche footwear districts. Statistical evidence and interviews with entrepreneurs suggest that the traditional inter-firm relationships within these districts have significantly changed during the past decade. Some leading firms have been building up more...

In this paper we propose and validate cheating in standardized tests as a new indirect measure of social capital. Given the low-stakes nature of most of the tests examined here, we interpret the widespread presence of cheating as a signal of limited trustin central education authorities....

This paper studies the characteristics of the cultural sector in Italy and its interactions with the production system as a whole. After stating a clear definition of the cultural sector, we analyze the demand and supply of culture in Italy, at a regional level. We carry out descriptive analysis...

The present paper has as its main theme the complex relationship between the individual and society in the anti-utopian literature of the first half of the XX-th century. As we know, this period has been an extremely prodigious one for the utopian literature, marking a decisive shift of...

Volumul Politica si metapolitica la Platon al autoarei Isadora Dunca, publicat la Editura Lumen, trateaza pe parcursul a trei capitole problemele fundamentale ale existentei omului in societate, analizate inca de catre sofisti, Platon sau Aristotel, care isi dovedesc inca actualitatea. Astfel...

Volumul Adevar si cunoastere in rationalismul empiric al autoarei Emilia Closca, publicat la Editura Lumen trateaza gradat pe parcursul a cinci capitole o idee-forta, specifice gandirii popperiene: metoda deductiva a testarii, soarta indictiei, falsificabilitatea, cresterea cunoasterii si...

Volumul Heidegger si rostirea fiintei al autorului Viorel Rotila, publicat la Editura Lumen, prezinta in cuprinsul sau dezbateri filosofice privind fiintain perceptia lui Hiedegger. Volumul urmareste sa ofere raspunsuri, dar nu definitive, exhaustive, la interogatiile legate de modul in care...

The volume collects the essays presented at the conference "Social capital, economics and political economy" held in Rome on 27 June 2014. The first session analyzes definition and measurement issues about social capital. The second and third sessions examine its determinants and economic...

Putnam (1993) argues that (i) center-northern Italy has developed faster than southern Italy because the former was better endowed with social capital; and (ii) that the endowments of social capital across Italian territories have been highly persistent over centuries. This paper provides an...

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal...