Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza per la prima volta il corpus linguistico delle Considerazioni finali (CF di seguito). La prima parte riassume le caratteristiche del data-set, costituito da circa 850.000 parole. La seconda parte esamina i temi affrontati dai Governatori in settanta anni di...

In law as well as economics, the most well-known aspect of Coase's “The Problem of Social Cost,” is the Coase Theorem. Over the decades, that particular notion has morphed into a crucial component of Chicago law and economics — namely, transaction cost analysis. In this Article, I...

Among American news magazines Newsweek holds the distinction of having hosted some of the most authoritative interpretation of economic events. Its cast of columnists included two of the most acclaimed academic economists and some of the most widely read business journalists of the late...

The recognition of the key importance of economic stability after World War I sparked interest in business forecasting on both sides of the Atlantic. This article explores the creation and the rapid international and domestic dissemination of the Harvard Index of General Business Conditions in...

Economic History and the History of Economic Thought haven been relegated increasingly from the teaching and research curricula of economics in recent years. The paper starts off arguing that this trend is due to the mechanistic ontology of mainstream economics, and it continues setting out an...

Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we employ a bibliometric approach and compare the content and orientation of economic literature before and after the crisis with reference to two different samples: A large-scale...

We contend that the transformation of economics from a discipline that studies the economy to one that is entrusted with its control has threatened the very soul of economics. The false pretense of scientific management led economists to promise to accomplish tasks that they cannot legitimately...

During the last quarter of the twentieth century, the humanities and social sciences have turned toward history, something that culminated in the 1990s, and this phenomenon was evident in law as well. However, until recently, law and economics, the most influential post-World War II...

The paper explores whether resource-based view with newly emerged extensions including the dynamic capabilities perspective and the knowledge-based view is a new theory of the firm the or a compliment to existing theories. The paper analyzes new paradigms in the strategic management literature...

Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we employ a bibliometric approach and compare the content and orientation of economic literature before and after the crisis with reference to two different samples: A large-scale...