The following pages are devoted to a bibliography which, though not exhaustive, provides an extensive set of references to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the authors over the years in their research and teaching....

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they...

The following pages are devoted to a bibliography which, though not exhaustive, provides an extensive set of references to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the authors over the years in their research and teaching....

Italian Abstract: Il multilinguismo reca diversi benefici economici agli individui e all'economia nel suo insieme. Le competenze linguistiche possono generare sostanziali differenziali salariali in favore di coloro che sviluppano repertori linguistici multilingui, ed esse contribuiscono alla...

This article addresses the question of the effectiveness and the fairness of the language policy of the European Union, by carrying out a comparative analysis of four alternative language regimes. A monolingual language policy based on English only, a trilingual language regime founded on...

This article provides an evaluation of the language policy of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). It focuses on the reform occurred in 2008, when the Korean language was given the status of a language of publication of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Results show that the...

The aims of this paper is to provide an information base that at the service of scholars, language planners, and other users as part of broader, yet systematic assessments of the extent of EU support for small languages. This paper provides a general overview of EU interventions in favour of...