Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last decades. The responsibility of social disengagement has been often attributed to pervasive busyness and the rising pressure of time. In this paper we argue that computer-mediated interaction, and...

Idealtipicamente, l’impresa è sociale se offre, con un impegno vincolante di governance, i servizi dei commons e i merit goods, impiegando in maniera non privatistica la maggior parte degli eventuali profitti. Questa definizione viene argomentata discutendo le caratteristiche dei beni...

Worker-managed firms (WMFs) represent a marginal proportion of total firms and aggregate employment in most countries. The bulk of firms in real economies is ultimately controlled by capital suppliers. Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker managed firms (WMFs) are prone to...

In this paper, we provide a very simple model to shed light on the issue of managed competition in mixed quasi-markets (i.e. regulated markets in which social and for-profit firms coexist). In doing this, we consider the literature on mixed oligopolies as a reasonable reference point and try to...

This paper presents the first empirical investigation into the effect of e-shopping on subjective well-being. The analysis relies on a nationally and regionally representative dataset from Italy (n = 4,130) drawn from the 2008 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) carried out...

Il microcredito è una delle forme della finanza etica. Per finanza etica intendiamo un uso delle risorse finanziarie che non considera solo le dimensioni standard dell’investimento finanziario (rischio e rendimento), ma anche le dimensioni sociali e morali dell’impiego, ovvero delle...

C’è un crescente interesse per l’economia civile (EC) intesa come una rivisitazione della storia del pensiero economico, come un ideale a cui uniformare l’organizzazione economica del futuro, come un criterio di analisi per capire meglio le attuali tendenze dell’economia. Quello che ci...

We argue that in a capitalist enterprise the need to fix wages is crucially influenced by the asymmetric distribution of decision-making power, which can entail the use of private information and authority in favour of the strongest contractual party (the employer), and against the weaker...

The aim of this work is to show that in a repeated Public Goods Game situation it is possible, through the implementation of a properly specified policy reward, to increase and sustain higher level of contribution with respect to the only "punishment" equilibrium at net zero costs. I investigate...

We construct an index for national identity using information from the World Values Survey on peoples’ attitudes concerning politics and to the state itself. We then analyze the relationship between our new measure of national identity and social heterogeneity. The results indicate that...