Italy is driving along a historical glide path. The main reason lies in the fact that in the country, especially in the last three decades, has experienced an extreme form of resistance to change. Everyone, when defecting, prefers that others defect as well, instead of cooperating. This...

Chapter 1: A Good Place to Live -- Chapter 2: The Economic Istitutions of Isocracy -- Chapter 3: The Political Istitutions of Isocracy -- Chapter 4: The Anthropological Mutation -- Chapter 5: The Structural Possibility of an Alternative

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...

According to Plato, thymòs—a notion denoting the human need for recognition—triggers off the most powerful and overwhelming human passions. Indeed, any action originated and nurtured by thymòtic passions places its own raison d’être in itself. The acts motivated by thymòs can either...

We focus on a ‘local style’ of political economy in Italy, not in order to compare the characteristics of scholars of economics from different national backgrounds, but rather to address the actual ways in which the profession of the economist was conceived and practised in a place that...

From an idealtypical perspective, an enterprise is social if it offers, with a binding commitment to governance, merit goods and services of the commons, using in a non-privatistic manner the most part of profits that may be obtained. This definition is discussed in relation to the...