<i> A proposito di un libro di testo sul settore "non profit"; in particolare, sulla questione della reciprocità </i> (di Ferruccio Marzano) - ABSTRACT: The paper is a review-article of a recent textbook by M. Musella and S. D’Acunto on The Political Economy of the Non Profit Sector (Turin, 2000)....

<i> Open and Closed Economic Theories </i> (by Ferruccio Marzano) - ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a new way to look at the deployment of modern economic theories, since A. Smith, as well as of actual practice as far as economic actions are concerned. On the one hand, there are those theories and...

<em>The Role of Ethical Premises in Economics and Finance</em> - After having dealt with the relationship between the real economy aspects and moral "values" and "norms" in previous articles (see F. Marzano, 1992, 1998a, 2001a, 2003b, 2004), in the present paper I intend to go further in the same...

The paper refers to the construction of some Indexes of Competitiveness and their application to the empirical analysis of the behaviour of Italian manufacturing industry in recent years. The idea is that an essential role in competitiveness is played by the specific characteristics of the goods...