This article analyzes the interaction between changes in tariff protection, informality, inequality and aggregate income. First, we describe some new empirical evidence on informality, the formal/informal wage gap and trade openness in Latin American countries. Then we present a simple model...

Consumer boycott campaigns against goods produced using child labour are becoming increasingly popular. Notwithstanding, there is no consensus on which are the effects of such type of activism on child labour. If some agreement is to be found in the recent economic literature, it is that the...

This paper is about economists and their opinions on economic policies. Using a representative sample of Italian economists as a case study, we show that disagreement is large on both the causes of the economic difficulties in Italy and the economic policies to be implemented for a recovery....

"We review the theories of growth and economic development in which the industrial sector plays a role. We briefly discuss the theoretical arguments that have been put forward in each of them and summarise the explanation of how industrialisation promotes growth and economic development. We...

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This paper presents a specific-factor model showing that, under technological uncertainty and risk averse agents, increasing trade integration is not always welfare increasing. The reason is that changes in the country's specialization level induced by trade integration produce both benefits and...</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This paper presents a historical and empirical account of the role played by government</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">intervention in the form of industrial policies in spurring development and growth in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">developing countries in the last fifty years. Adopting the taxonomy proposed in Cimoli et</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">alt. (2008), it describes the set...</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This work provides an empirical assessment of the 'sophistication' of the Italian international</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">specialization pattern and of its evolution during the period 1980</span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt">¡</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt">2000. In particular we analyse</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">the well-known Italian trade 'anomaly' combining the information coming from the PRODY index</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Hausmann...</span></span>

This paper explores the way the man–nature relationship and the related environmental problems have been dealt along with the history of the economic thought. We discuss a number of different theoretical frameworks (classical, Marxian and neoclassical economics, Georgescu-Roegen's...

This paper explores the way the man?nature relationship and the related environmental problems have been dealt along with the history of the economic thought. We discuss a number of different theoretical frameworks (classical, Marxian and neoclassical economics, Georgescu-Roegen's approach and...