The paper aims to examine the interaction between economic system and environmental system in an input-output model in order to define the regulation to limit the impact of productive processes on environment and to assure a sustainable development. The analysis points out that both direct and...

This essay proposes a reflection on some interventions aimed at supporting sustainable growth by stressing the “environmental scarcity”. Only if this scarcity is correctly perceived, it can promote sustainable production and consumption choices and enhance innovation in order to reduce the...

This Working Paper joint two previous articles by the authors: The economic theory of exhaustible natural resources, in “Enciclopedia degli Idrocarburi”, vol. IV, Istituto della Enciclopedia Treccani, Roma, 2008, pp. 3-10;Technological innovation, relative scarcity, investments, in...

Golf played by country residents is and golf tourism are widely increasing. In particular, golf tourism is getting increasingly important as compared to the other forms of tourism. The golf tourist has a high income, is more educated and environmentally conscious than the other classes of...

T The objective of this contribution is to evaluate the performance and build up a profile of Italian medium-size and medium large multinationals who represent the "fourth capitalism”. In fact, the companies' “fourth capitalism" is the set of medium and medium-large enterprises who seem to...

The essay investigates non producible (natural) resources and rent from three points of views: stylized facts, quantitative economics and economic theory. Taking the first point of view, the author discusses how economic growth can be represented in terms of never-ending tension between scarcity...

The essay aims at arguing that investing in knowledge is one of the main cause of the deep transformations in the structure of modern economies and also a strategic engine for the long run growth. In the recent years a clear long-standing trend in the OECD area have emerged, which is reflected...

The paper examines the components of the paradigm defined by the author to describe the foundations of the European Union: growth, construction, convention and constitution. Firstly, the paper focuses on “growth” and “construction” because they are considered preliminary conditions to...

Questo lavoro si propone di avviare l’elaborazione sistematica di una teoria delle piccole imprese di famiglia basata sul principio di sussidiarietà. Le innumerevoli piccole e piccolissime imprese che costituiscono il nucleo del sistema produttivo italiano ed europeo, sono caratterizzate da...

Questo lavoro si propone di illustrare le principali tappe del complesso processo legislativo che ha portato nel nostro paese al riconoscimento formale dei distretti industriali, e di fornire un aggiornamento delle normative regionali in materia di distretti. In seguito all’adozione della...