Material flows from the envirornment to economic activities constitute a valid basis for the construction of useful, policy-oriented indicators of the potential damage to nature deriving from these activities. Not only direct intake is relevant, but also the "upstream" activation of material....

Una classifica robusta della sostenibilità delle regioni italiane The current economic crisis can be seen as arising from a failure to address sustainability, which is not only about Naturre, but also about the society and the economy. This paper updates and further develops a previous piece of...

Una classifica robusta della sostenibilità delle regioni italiane The current economic crisis can be seen as arising from a failure to address sustainability, which is not only about Naturre, but also about the society and the economy. This paper updates and further develops a previous piece of...

The paper is about the nature of the relationships among energy economy and society. Economic growth and development was fostered by an increasing use of fossil energy. Its exhaustion has always been a major worry. Furthermore, the abundance of energy has been made possible to move huge amounts...

Efficiency is still a pervasive idea in economic literature. This paper aims to discuss the relevance of this notion. It argues that efficiency is useless in neoclassical economics - where efficiency is a necessary consequence of the postulate of full rationality - and is meaningless in a...

L'osservazione del comportamento dei consumatori in situazioni reali fornisce dati potenzialmente piu' genuini di quelli che si possono ottenere da esperimenti o da interviste e sondaggi. Questa nota riferisce di una circostanza dalla quale Š possibile trarre indicazioni sulla razionalita' dei...

La letteratura economica sulle norme sociali tende ad ipotizzare che l'individuo si trovi a scegliere semplicemente se obbedire o meno ad una certa norma e che una sanzione informate, esogena, influenzi la sua decisione. Di fatto, tuttavia, la scelta del singolo riguarda anche un'eventuale...

This note reports a real case where individuals faced an apparently trivial choice, with no uncertainty involved. The data show that even in such a situation full rationality may fail to apply. Experimental replications along the lines of the present case might prove helpful for collecting data...