This paper has two main goals. The first is to provide empirical evidence that differences in labour market institutions across countries and, specifically, in how they provide protection to workers, can be attributed to underlying differences in culturally-based prior beliefs: in particular,...

This paper has two major goals. The first is to propose an evaluation of the economic weight of the sexual recreation industry in Italy. To achieve this goal data from different sources have been collected, and in some cases estimated when studies on specific topics were not available. The...

This paper has two main goals. The first is to show that behavioral rather than maximizing principles emerge from textual analysis as the microeconomic foundations for Keynes’s Consumption Theory; the second goal is to demonstrate the possibility of grounding a Keynesian-type aggregate...

This brief paper seeks to overcome a number of methodological disagreements among economists who use the long-period method of analysis. In particular, it attempts to clarify the key distinctions between convergence and stability, convergence and gravitation and chronological and theoretical...

The empirical evidence that unemployment is one of the most negative outcomes in life, carrying non-pecuniary psychic costs as well as pecuniary ones, is strong. Yet, standard explanations of the demand for social protection have neglected these costs and their impact on the way in which workers...

Swinging is a sexual behavior 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 behavior. To this...

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...

The idea of measuring scientific relevance by counting citations is gaining influence among economists, and thanks to the electronic bibliographic resources now available the procedure has become relatively simple and fast. However, when it comes to putting the idea into practice many problems...