Il paper è una sintesi di una ricerca empirica interdisciplinare, finanziata nel 2007 dall’Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali della Regione dell’Umbria, che ha avuto come primo obiettivo quello di verificare quale è la interpretazione del dono attualmente prevalente tra un gruppo di...

We investigate how the patterns of consumption and accumulation, as well as the patterns of time allocation and of social interaction, may be influenced by social pressure, i.e., by the choices of others. We display an evolutionary model involving several generations of interacting...

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The article presents the urban sprawl phenomena in Central European capitals and in the Budapest metropolitan region, based on statistical data and empirical survey analysis. The study concentrates on territorial consumption issues, which are determined by the suburbanisation processes, the...

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China is rapidly urbanizing and will inevitably face trade-offs between promoting economic growth through further urbanization and protecting fertile farmland against accelerated urban expansion. This paper presents how this dilemma is being addressed in one of the most rapidly urbanizing...

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