We deal with tastes and preferences, revising the linkages between both in order to analyse the special case where we express preferences to goods that do not appeal to us. We deduce the concept of a deconstructed demand and define two types of goods (embarrassing and reputable). With the help...

The performing arts sector is also capable of being studied from the point of view of economics. Having this into account we focus on its relation resources/products and on the concept of efficiency as one of the components of the productivity, analyzing the period 1995-1999 in order to...

The contribution of this paper to the social capital literature is twofold. Drawing on the Italian data, it firstly provides a new framework for measurement, allowing to build indicators for five different components of the multidimensional concept of social capital. Secondly, it provides a...