This paper is meant as a discussion of different methodologicalapproaches to the analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sorted out through a scrutiny of the literature that has emerged from the recent Italian debate. The first stream of literature is embedded in the neo-classical...

The legitimacy of slavery, deeply rooted in classical and Christian culture, was called into question starting from the 18th century. It was a slow process, that had to relate to the peculiar forms the slavery institution got with the European colonisation of America in the Modern Age, that is...

Italian Abstract: Il presente saggio e' finalizzato ad esaminare alcuni tipi di rimedi proconcorrenziali nel settore delle comunicazioni elettroniche (in particolare, i processi di separazione funzionale e strutturale) e l’impatto che possono avere le misure di mero enforcement, tenendo in...

Italian Abstract: Da ormai quasi 50 anni si discute del reato di “ecocidio”, che è tuttora oggetto di dibattito. Iniziato come problematica scientifica, principalmente attinente alla biologia, l’ecocidio è diventato anzitutto una questione politica prima ancora che giuridica....

In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...