This paper has two goals. First, it seeks to show a logical inconsistency in Sraffian theory. The theory, it is argued, is conceived as a long-period approach but is unable to identify a long-period position. Second, the paper tries to show that even if we drop some of the building blocks of...

Swinging is a sexual behaviour of increasing relevance but substantially ignored in theoretical economic investigation. This paper has two major goals. The first is to describe what swinging is, discuss its economic relevance and single out the main characteristics of swinger behaviour. To this...

Radical differences in labour market regulations among countries that in other institutional respects are quite similar are still surprisingly frequent. Nonetheless, traditional theoretical analysis meets enormous difficulties in explaining these differences. The scope of our paper is to show...