The paper discusses the concept of "traditional knowledge": its definition, economic significance and role in shaping regional development trajectories. After outlining a conceptual framework for the analysis of traditional knowledge, the paper examines the changing position of traditional...

Friedman published his celebrated "The Methodology of Positive Economics" in 1952. In it Friedman set himself a normative objective: that of defining the procedures and rules with which economists must comply in their research activity in order to achieve 'scientific knowledge'. Despite the...

Dopo essere diventato dall'inizio degli anni Novanta un importante campo di studi teorici e applicati in urbanistica, in Italia il tema della "citta' dispersa" ha recentemente iniziato ad attrarre l'attenzione degli economisti. Il grado di dispersione nello spazio della citta', ed i suoi effetti...

In the paper an explanatory framework for the analysis of the relationships between the economic process and the human landscape in the natural parks is proposed. Although they have not attracted much attention, the evolution and regulation of local systems with regards to the objective of...

<em> La città come sistema progressivo: evoluzione strutturale e sviluppo economico</em> (di Antonio G. Calafati) - ABSTRACT: The city as a progressive system: structural evolution and economic development. By moving from the theory of ‘progressive systems’ and assigning to the causal relationship...