Over the last decade, workfare programmes provided support to the unemployed onlyinsofar as they were willing to accept a job. The theoretical underpinnings of these programmesare that institutional constraints prevent labour supply from adjusting to thetechnologically determined requirements of...

<p> The paper argues that the so-called canonical view of the Italian industrial district (ID)depicts it as a system whose economic and social vitality requires the interaction betweentwo major sub-systems: a community of people and a community of firms. A range ofcircumstances - including...</p>

  One of the key issues in K. Polanyi’s (1944, 1957) work is that capitalist markets maybe inconsistent with societal values. This (external) inconsistency eventually leads to areaction against the rationale of the market, what Polanyi refers to with the notion of thedouble movement. The...

This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it requires a more general approach, based on social...