List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the scene -- The dynamic nexus between sport, mega-events and security: a socio-historical sketch -- The meanings and (Re)productions of security -- Between retrospective and futuristic processes of security: extending the 'Troika of Security' --...

In this paper we study the structural robustness of Italian business system, using Covid-19 pandemic as an exogenous event to test it. To this aim, we use the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) methodology, quite new for Economics, to classify Italian firms according to their economic...