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Giustizia e rispetto. Sotto il segno di Ermes, pensieri per i naviganti
Authors: Favretto Anna Rosa
Published: June 2021

Gli studi sulla socializzazione normativa, occupandosi del "senso del giusto" e dei sentimenti di giustizia negli individui e nei gruppi sociali, offrono un interessante punto di avvio per considerazioni sulla giustizia riparativa e la giustizia penale in ambito minorile. Č a partire da questi studi che vengono ripercorsi sia le piů importanti critiche rivolte, nel corso del tempo, alla giustizia riparativa e alla mediazione penale, sia i punti di forza, unitamente alla pro- spettiva proposta da Garland in relazione all'inevitabile compresenza di aspetti emotivi e di aspetti razionali in ogni atto penale e alla compartecipazione sociale alla costruzione e al sostegno delle attivitŕ punitive. Nel lavoro si individua l'ambito penale minorile come uno dei territori elettivi per realizzare quella "giustizia ibrida" che permetterebbe di coniugare elementi sanzionatori ed elementi di giustizia sociale, riconoscendo tuttavia le contraddizioni insite nell'applicazione di pratiche di giustizia riparativa in una societŕ fondata su ampi differenziali di potere.
A proposito di "Le donne sono umane?" Di Catharine Mackinnon
Authors: Pitch Tamar
Published: June 2021

In questa nota si discutono alcuni testi della giurista e avvocata femminista Catharine MacKinnon, mettendone in luce gli apporti al dibattito sull'uso del diritto e dei diritti per combattere discriminazione e violenze contro le donne. Questi apporti vengono confrontati con la letteratura femminista e le lotte delle donne in Italia negli ultimi quaranta anni. Si sollevano perplessitŕ circa l'assunto fondamentale di MacKinnon, secondo cui č la violenza la cifra vera del rapporto degli uomini con le donne, e si mostrano sia i guadagni che i problemi del ricorso al diritto e ai diritti per nominarla e combatterla. Da ultimo, si analizza criticamente la sua lettura di ciň che MacKinnon chiama femminismo post-moderno.
Prima che l'asino se ne sia andato, il cavallo č giŕ arrivato
Authors: Safran Jeremy D.
Published: June 2021

- In this article I explore some of the implications of the Buddhist perspective on nonduality and acceptance for psychoanalytic practice. Nonduality is a mode of experiencing that breaks down the distinction between categories that are conventionally regarded as opposites8e. g., good versus bad, pure versus impure, sacred versus profane, heaven and hell). The Buddhist perspective on nonduality is that the natural human tendency to think about things in dualistic terms is at the heart of the problem and that wisdom is the ability to experience things nondualistically. As long as we distinguish between things as they should be in some idealized state versus things as they are, we are unable to be fully open to, and appreciate the present situation for what it has to offer. I attempt to convey a sense of way in which the cultivation of a nondual perspective can lead to a radical and paradoxical perspective on the role of acceptance in the analytic process.
Clinica di uno stato di de-mentalizzazione. (introduzione di Daniela Morelli)
Authors: Smadja Claude
Published: June 2021

- Theoretical basis and clinical illustrations of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of psychosomatic states by the School of Paris (see: L'investigation psychosomatique, 1964, by P. Marty; M. de M'Uzan, Ch. David) are here presented. This approach, rooted in Freud's work, encourages the therapist to listen to the patient in a specific way that underlines the need to understand and to trace potential causal links in the material presented. The purpose of this model is to understand not only "how the patient works with the therapist" but also "why the patient works in a specific way". This is called by Smadya "the psychoanalytic investigation". The concept of "de-mentalization" is central in this theory, as a reduced capacity to elaborate the conflicts and difficulties of one's own psychic development. The failure of the psychic elaboration forces the Ego to a regression to a psychosomatic functioning.
Teoria dell'attaccamento e psicoanalisi. Considerazioni su patologia e terapia
Authors: Panero Marcello
Published: June 2021

L'articolo prende in esame l'ampia letteratura sulle implicazioni della Teoria dell'Attaccamento e dei suoi sviluppi recenti, per la diagnosi e la psicoterapia dei pazienti adulti. Vengono discusse convergenze e differenze con la teoria e la clinica psicoanalitica. Ci si sofferma sull'utilizzabilitŕ delle classificazioni e misurazioni derivanti dalla Strange Situation, dall'Adult Attachment Interview e dalla Scala della Funzione Riflessiva, e particolarmente sulle implicazioni del concetto di ‘coerenza del linguaggio' e sul significato del concetto di ‘sicurezza' nell'attaccamento e nella psicoterapia psicoanalitica. Vengono confrontati i diversi approcci di autori di area cognitivista e psicoanalitica, soprattutto circa il ruolo di "figura di attaccamento" svolto dal terapeuta. Viene infine presa in considerazione la "terapia basata sulla mentalizzazione" (Bateman e Fonagy) e la dialettica tra "sviluppo di funzioni psicologiche di base", esplorazione dei conflitti ed interpretazione.
Spinoza muore
Authors: Scribano Emanuela
Published: June 2021

In the essay Spinoza Dies, the Author imagines Spinoza's reflections in the hours preceding his death and uses them to present the philosopher's theories on life, death, suicide and eternity of the mind. These theories require a concept of identity able to answer questions on the essence of life and death, the identity of the dying and of the surviving individual. While some interpreters deny that the eternal mind can be a personal one, the Author argues in complete contrast that the mind truly achieves a personal identity only in the dimension of eternity.
De nobis ipsis silemus. Sulla morte di Immanuel Kant
Authors: Pettoello Renato
Published: June 2021

The description of Immanuel Kant's last days and of the phrenological and craniometric studies of his skull gives the Author the opportunity to discuss the philosophical validity of biographies and more in general to re-examine the vexata quaestio of the relationship between philosophy and history of philosophy. Here the Author supports the thesis that, for the most part, any reference to the biographies of philosophers is essentially of no use – their works have to be judged as such, independently of whoever wrote them and also to a large extent of the historical context – and that there is the need to get back to a philosophical history of philosophy, while still maintaining the very rigorous approach to which the history of philosophy has accustomed us in the last few decades.
Le metamorfosi delle occupazioni e delle professioni
Authors: Minardi Everardo
Published: June 2021

- The paper analyses the transformations of occupations and professions in specific contexts, in which knowledge, renews and adds value to skills, whilst the new technologies in production systems match the craft competences and abilities.

Keywords: Occupations, Professions, Craft abilities, New technologies, Evaluation, Professional groups
Valutazione delle occupazioni e gruppi socio-occupazionali
Authors: Parziale Fiorenzo , Scotti Ivano
Published: June 2021

- Groups In this paper the social evaluation of occupations is analyzed, examining the social class and occupational group of valuers. The hypothesis is that the evaluation of occupations is the consequence of a mediation between the sociocultural system and the lived working experience.

Key words: Social stratification, Social class, Social evaluation, Job situation, Social perception, Social change
Un nuovo approccio alla lettura della crisi del rapporto stato-mercato
Authors: Revelli marco
Published: June 2021

- A New Approach for the Analysis of the Crisis of the State-Market relationship The essay starts by considering the crisis in the relationship between politics and economy, between political democracy and the market. The author underlines how today we are traumatically overcoming the break in the relationship of the long monopolistic cycle state-market, centered on the Weberian bureaucratic model as a common organizational element. The state-market nexus had completely marginalized the private, deprived of significance the third circuit (that of reciprocity, of gratuity), a terzium which is powerfully coming back, precisely in the moment when the processes of fragmentation of the productive units and of work have caused the market to become a producer of social disgregation.
Etica e impresa: un nuovo e diverso approccio al tema
Authors: La Rosa Michele
Published: June 2021

- The "other-economy": between the market and civil society According to the author, the concept of "other-economy" represents a development of the reflections upon fair trade economy, no-profit and third sector activities, which originated from different approaches. With reference to the categories which have been used up to this period, "other-economy" refers to an emergent and heterogeneous system of activities directed to economic and social change. The essay focuses on some of the characteristics of these activities, starting with a definition of alternative economy, as a group of economic activities - which produce goods for the market or services connected to the action of the state - and of social activities aiming at improving the well being of citizens, social solidarity and environmental sustainability.
La difficile professionalizzazione delle occupazioni nei servizi alla persona
Authors: Abhervé Michel , Dubois Pierre
Published: June 2021

- Tres para tres: third economy, third world… a third way? The essay focuses on the economy originated within the community, characterized by solidarity, trust, proximity, which possesses its own specificities, and therefore presents strong aspects and a certain stability. By analyzing a work experience in a region of the north of Columbia, the author shows how the production of goods and services for the local communities becomes a resource for the community. The network formed by public, private and social organizations sharing the same aim of integration on the territory produces a value above all through the social construction of the strategic plan itself, which identifies programmes, responsibilities, subdivision of the resources and time for the interventions.
L'uditorio dei sociologi (economici) oltre i sociologi
Authors: Regini Marino
Published: June 2021

- Economic sociologists are usually far less influential on policy-makers, international organizations, public opinion, than mainstream economists. This article discusses the possible factors of this lower external influence, arguing that the main reason is to be found in the very structure of sociological accounts of the economy, that makes them ill-suited to orient action. Any accounts based on the embeddedness of economic action in social networks, or on the features of the institutional context that shapes actors' behaviour, make it impossible to draw simple prescriptions from them. To overcome this handicap, economic sociologists should try to focus on a few analytical instruments typical of their tool kit, that, under current conditions, may prove more valuable than those used by economists. Four such instruments are discussed: use of typologies vs. convergence theories; emphasis on trade-offs between costs and benefits of the different solutions vs. pursuit of the "one best way"; search for functional equivalents vs. sheer imitation of best practices; finally, design of alternative scenarios vs. straight forecasts.

Key words: paradigms, social impact, typologies, trade-offs, functional equivalents, alternative scenarios
Apprendere dagli errori per migliorare sicurezza e affidabilitŕ organizzativa: il contributo della sociologia dell'organizzazione
Authors: Catino Maurizio
Published: June 2021

- The objective of this article is to examine which role the theory and sociology of organization might have in the accident analysis of organizations for the improvement of safety and reliability. The possible role for organizational research on accidents in organizations. The two main aims are: the analysis of two different logics of inquiry in case of accidents - the individual blame logic vs the functional-organizational logic-; the evaluation of the possible role and the practical difficulties in the implementation of an organizational approach if errors and organizational accidents occur. Main attention will focus on organizational research direct to have influence on social processes and conditions of extra-academic effect.

Key words: organizational learning, organizational errors, blame culture, just culture, safety, organizational reliability
Welfare locale e decentramento amministrativo a Napoli: la ricerca come specchio del mutamento sociale
Authors: Corbisiero Fabio , Perone Elisabetta
Published: June 2021

- The article summarizes the results of a research conducted on the social policies change in Naples, particularly in Scampěa and in North Area of the city. This change saws the active involvement of the third sector organizations in the process of implementation of policies. The survey pays special attention to the process of welfare networking developed in the Area, although this involved a deep reconsideration, on the part of researchers, about the risks of contamination of the research as subject get closer. The involvement of an Association, among those most active in the area, while allowed more direct understanding of decision making, on the other hand became a strong pressure. Mediation among the scientific aims and those expressed by the Association led to a deviation of the original research design.

Key words: social policies, suburbs, poverty, school dropout, voluntary, welfare
Forza e debolezza del nuovo welfare
Authors: Colasanto Michele
Published: June 2021

Il paradigma del welfare state attivo, se non opportunamente contestualizzato, conduce ad alcune aporie. La prima č legata al lavoro inteso come carattere determinante del nuovo welfare: l'accesso all'occupazione puň anche essere considerata un'opportunitŕ e non un diritto, ma solo se tale opportunitŕ si caratterizza come effettiva. Inoltre, l'obiettivo dell'occupabilitŕ non č proponibile in termini puramente funzionali: non occorre solo l'occupazione, ma una occupazione valutabile positivamente per il soggetto. Una seconda aporia deriva dal peso dato all'apprendimento continuo e alla formazione come fattori di protezione e risorsa per l'occupabilitŕ. La formazione č condizionata da fattori di carattere normativo, organizzativo, finanziario e anche contrattuale per il lavoro dipendente, dalla motivazione individuale, che č fortemente correlata al livello di istruzione. Occorrono politiche di attivazione che mettano insieme lavoro, formazione, assistenza, partecipazione civile e politica: per dare spazio a una maggiore responsabilizzazione degli individui e delle famiglie, tenendo conto di come cambiano i corsi di vita.
I nuovi termini della socializzazione (alla cittadinanza) lavorativa
Authors: Lodigiani Rosangela
Published: June 2021

La transizione al lavoro dei giovani si realizza attraverso percorsi lunghi, flessibili, individualizzati. Ciň influisce sulla socializzazione lavorativa nonché sulla cultura e sull'etica del lavoro dei giovani, rendendo piů difficile la costruzione di una carriera occupazionale stabile e di una solida identitŕ professionale. I processi di socializzazione lavorativa divengono ricorsivi, discontinui, frammentati; non riescono piů a trasmettere il senso di una appartenenza, ma - inquadrati nel paradigma europeo dell'attivazione e dell'occupabilitŕ - richiamano a una cittadinanza occupazionale nei fatti difficile da conquistare e mantenere e spesso incapace di rispondere ai bisogni di realizzazione di sé e riconoscimento sociale. Ne derivano nuove disuguaglianze tra i giovani e una ridefinizione del significato del lavoro nel corso di vita. Emerge dunque la necessitŕ di politiche tese a supportare le transizioni lavorative affinché conservino un profilo professionalizzante, consentano la capitalizzazione di competenze, siano sostenibili dentro la biografia individuale. Occorre perň ridare valore al lavoro dei giovani, integrando l'obiettivo dell'occupabilitŕ con quello della capability di scegliere un lavoro che abbia valore per sé.
Individualizzazione della diseguaglianza sociale e politiche delle capacitazioni
Authors: Ruffino Marco
Published: June 2021

L'articolo analizza in modo critico l'approccio delle

nelle politiche di welfare attivo, viste in rapporto al "paradigma debole" della

. Focalizzando l'attenzione sul rapporto fra capacitazione ed apprendimento, sonoevidenziati due tipi di rischi:

) una maggiore individualizzazione della diseguaglianza, se le capacitazioni divengono un terreno di conflitto sociale, che riproduce, invece di correggere, i

iniziali;

) la riduzione della libertŕ sostantiva, se il diritto ad apprendere si trasforma nell'obbligo di adattamento. L'approccio delle capacitazioni resta indubbiamente essenziale, ma richiede di trovare un equilibrio fra responsabilitŕ personali e responsabilitŕ istituzionali. Alcune evidenze relative all'Europa ed all'Italia mostrano la necessitŕ di andare verso "istituzioni capacitanti", come condizione per utilizzare l'approccio per lo sviluppo di una effettiva libertŕ individuale di scelta.
Le diseguaglianze scolastiche a monte e a valle. Organizzazione scolastica e influenza dei titoli di studio
Authors: Dubet François , Duru-Bellat Marie , Vérétout Antoine
Published: June 2021

Ovunque la scuola riproduce la disuguaglianza sociale risultando piů favorevole per gli studenti socialmente e culturalmente avvantaggiati. Tuttavia questa "legge" č troppo generica per spiegare le forti variazioni del livello di riproduzione sociale rilevata tramite confronti internazionali. Sulla base di tali indagini, il saggio illustra innanzitutto che tali variazioni non sono spiegate direttamente dalla portata delle disuguaglianze sociali, ma occorre fare riferimento ad altri due fattori. Il primo ha a che fare con l'organizzazione dei sistemi scolastici, la quale incrementa o attenua gli effetti della disuguaglianza sociale sulle disuguaglianze scolastiche. Il secondo si colloca a valle della scuola ed ha a che fare con l'intensitŕ dell'influenza dei titoli di studio sull'accesso alle diverse posizioni sociali; in tal senso si mostra che tanto piů tale influenza č forte, tanto piů sono marcate le diseguaglianze di istruzione e rigida la riproduzione delle diseguaglianze sociali. In definitiva č il ruolo assegnato alla scuola dalle varie societŕ che determina il livello della riproduzione sociale. A partire dalle risultanze dello studio illustrato, condotto su un campione di paesi, che analizza dati a livello aggregato sarebbe molto utile effettuare approfondimenti qualitativi complementari per comprendere come opera la riproduzione sociale.
Paradigmi e approcci nella gestione dell'invecchiamento delle forze di lavoro: un riesame critico
Authors: Marcaletti Francesco
Published: June 2021

A partire da una rassegna della letteratura piů recente, il contributo ricostruisce determinanti, concetti e modelli attraverso i quali si č giunti alla definizione in Europa di strategie di gestione delle forze di lavoro in ragione dell'invecchiamento che le coinvolge. Il percorso messo a fuoco č quello relativo al prendere forma di un discorso in tema di lavoratori anziani e di lavoro degli anziani e al concomitante definirsi di paradigmi che fondano la pratica della gestione del lavoro dei piů anziani e delle etŕ al lavoro. Sul primo versante corrono le dimensioni che afferiscono alle politiche pubbliche nella loro articolazione per livelli e settori di competenza, sul secondo versante i modelli e le pratiche di gestione del fattore etŕ al lavoro raccolti sotto l'etichetta dell'age management. La cornice di questo processo č rappresentata dalla rilevanza che sul piano interpretativo hanno assunto le letture di carattere neo-istituzionalista e la prospettiva del corso di vita.
Essere o apprendere? Formazione, mobilitŕ e identitŕ professionale dei giovani istruiti del loisir e dell'Ict a Catania
Authors: Arcidiacono Davide
Published: June 2021

Il saggio analizza la differenziazione dei processi di mobilitŕ e carriera di giovani istruiti nel loisir e nell'Ict a Catania. L'autore si concentra sull'impatto della "costruzione organizzativa" del valore delle credenziali educative, considerando anche variabili ascritte come lo status sociale e le barriere di genere.
Stato, sindacato e impresa tra conflitto e una nuova stagione di accordi. Gli Accordi Fiat 2010: un'occasione per riflettere sulle relazioni industriali in Italia
Authors: Perra Sabrina
Published: June 2021

Il contributo propone una riflessione sulle trasformazioni delle relazioni industriali in Italia, a partire dalle vicende legate agli Accordi Fiat del 2010. La tesi sostenuta nel contributo č che la concertazione sia oramai uno strumento in declino e lasci un vuoto di metodo nelle relazioni industriali, aggravato da crescenti spinte neo-liberiste.
Strategie organizzative e consulenza come pratica situata di costruzione sociale di conoscenza
Authors: Scaratti Giuseppe , Frassy Jeanpaul , Orefice Marina
Published: June 2021

- The aim of this paper is to present the main results of a consultation understood like a situated practice dealing with the social process by which professional identity, organizational knowledge and cultures take form. The work underlines how organizational strategies grow up from the social texture of workplace exchanges, in which the practical and daily experience of each professional becomes the main and more relevant field for a making sense process: the interactions and conversations between internal and external stakeholders and social actors shape the incarnate production of ordinary social facts. The paper underlines the qualitative approach and the methodological devices used to achieve the production of situated knowledge concerned the context of a social firm, located in Valle d'Aosta, dealing with the challenge of brand positioning and innovation. By means of accounts and thick descriptions the paper aims to show how making organizational strategies can be analyzed as a situated social process, as a practice which acquires progressive stability from provisional and changing patterns.

Keywords: Strategy process, practice, situated knowledge, qualitative methodological approach.
Empowerment e intensificazione? Gli effetti dei nuovi sistemi di lavoro sui lavoratori1
Authors: Della Torre Edoardo
Published: June 2021

The debate about the effects of new work systems - the so-called High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) - in terms of improving economic performance and productivity of the enterprise is rich in contributions and a substantial convergence is recorded in saying that, in the presence of a well thought-out and properly implemented system, the effects are positive. More neglected and controversial are the effects that these practices have for the well-being of workers. Through a review of theoretical and empirical literature on the topic, this paper analyses the traditional opposition between supporters of the "empowerment view" and supporters of the "intensification view". The former consider the HPWS such as win-win solutions for enterprises and workers, while the latter believe that the HPWS are a managerial expedient that aims to intensify the pace of work and the efforts required to workers. The results show that both positions are sustainable and attach to internal tensions related to HPWS (i.e. control/ discretion, responsibility/stress, etc.) the uncertainty of the results found from the literature. This interpretation finds in the intermediate "sceptical view" the more careful position to adopt and suggests to pay greater attention to the measurement adopted to analyze these relationships and to the characteristics of the employees and of the context in which HPWS are introduced. Finally, some directions for the development of future researches in this area are drawn.
L'istituzionalizzazione di nuove forme organizzative - dalle organizzazioni alle reti d'azione
Authors: Miele Francesco
Published: June 2021

In the last years, organizational studies have developed a growing interest about institutionalization processes of new organizational forms, in order to understand the ways trough which innovative organizations, inter-organizational networks or organizing processes become stable and legitimized. The aim of this paper is to underline the potentialities of the action-nets approach (Czarniawska, 2004) in the study of institutionalization processes of innovative organizing forms. Firstly, the article focuses on the concept of action-nets, reporting two studies (Odds, 2005; Czarniawska, 2009) which have reconstructed the institutionalization processes of the same organizational form: The London School of Economics. Secondly, it underlines the innovations brought by action-nets approach in front of new institutionalism, the main current of studies that has contributed to understand the institutionalization's dynamics of new organizational forms. Finally, it concerns the development perspectives of action-nets, suggesting some useful directions to refine the theoretical and conceptual tools of this approach.
Dossier per il Campo di Ricerca, Innovazione e Formazione del Nord allargato
Authors: Perulli Paolo
Published: June 2021

The paper analyzes the supply of research and innovation of Northern Italy in the context of European standards. Weaknesses are the average small size of firms and the incremental innovation of SMEs; strenghts are the ability to create networks of cooperation among firms in R&D and the good integration among firms, the urban creative class and Universities. Research and innovation have been developed mostly through incubators, science parks, technology centers distributed in many Northern Italy cities and regions. Their structures are largely disconnected and a lack of integration among different research clusters emerges. The next European Union ‘Horizon 2020' framework programmes for R§D ask for a great capacity of Nations to build cooperation and integration among their R§D and innovation structures, as well as to develop cross-countries and transborder strategies and joint initiatives. Italy is lagging behind: only the creation of a Research and Innovation Field integrated at Northern Italy's scale and scope will make Italian Universities and research structures able to compete at European level.
Il contratto di rete: una rassegna
Authors: Alberti Fernando G.
Published: June 2021

Il presente articolo intende essere una breve nota tesa a fare il punto dello stato di adozione e di elaborazione dei contratti di rete. Con il contratto di rete, il Legislatore ha voluto introdurre una nuova fattispecie giuridica finalizzata a favorire l'aggregazione tra imprese di minore dimensione, aumentando cosě le dimensioni aziendali per meglio competere nei mercati internazionali e supportare l'innovazione. Il contratto di rete si differenzia nella ratio da altre forme burocratiche di reti inter-organizzative esistenti, per maggiore flessibilitŕ sia nella definizione degli scopi e dei confini della rete stessa sia nel livello di coinvolgimento dei partner. I contratti di rete stanno assumendo una diffusione tale da essere spesso utilizzati come sinonimi di rete tra imprese. Come ampiamente illustrato e chiarito in un articolo apparso sul numero precedente di Studi Organizzativi, le reti tra imprese si caratterizzano per una varietŕ di forme, assetti, obiettivi, meccanismi operativi e composizione, tale per cui l'appiattimento del fenomeno ai soli contratti di rete, che si registra nella retorica quotidiana di policy makers, giuristi e media, risulta essere non solo immotivato ma anche ontologicamente fallace. Emerge, quindi la necessitŕ anche per gli studiosi di strategia e organizzazione, e non solo per i giuristi, di chiarire questo fenomeno, comprenderne la natura, le potenzialitŕ e i limiti, analizzarne la diffusione e gli strumenti a supporto, ma anche metterlo in relazione con il piů ampio fenomeno delle reti inter-organizzative di cui i contratti costituiscono solo una delle possibili forme. Dagli elementi riportati in questo articolo si evince come il fenomeno dei contratti di rete, per quanto nascente, abbia vissuto nell'ultimo periodo sia un forte incremento quantitativo nell'ultimo anno sia un forte incremento sul fronte qualitativo. L'affinamento della fattispecie giuridica, la crescente casistica e l'ampio dibattito accademico, istituzionale e professionale creatosi attorno al fenomeno hanno stimolato molti a ragionare attorno al tema delle reti di imprese, anche se ancora con poca distinzione tra il concetto di rete di imprese - e le sue variegate forme - e quello di contratto di rete, che rappresenta solo un possibile inquadramento burocratico per la formalizzazione di una rete.
Immigrazione e seconde generazioni: un primo quadro di riferimento
Authors: Bertani Michele
Published: June 2021

- The article analyzes contemporary migration processes, by focusing on the so-called ‘second generation' in Europe and Italy. After a brief description of the different meanings attached to this definition, the article highlights some of the peculiar aspects of the Italian context and analyzes them. Italy has experienced immigration only recently in comparison to other European countries. In addition, in this country immigration is often discussed by politicians and the media as a process related only with the labour market. This makes it interesting to define some preliminary indicators and trends in relation to the presence of migrants' children in Italy. Through the analysis of statistical data and academic research, this article studies migration projects through the perspective of the ‘second generation', to show this can provide an appropriate lens to understand migration trajectories in their full complexity. Additionally, this article encourages researchers to consider migration from this perspective, as it will be part of a long-term process which may be viewed, from an analytical perspective, as a trajectory, or rather as a multiplicity of potential trajectories. Keywords: Immigration, Second Generation, Immigration in Italy, Multiculturalism, Education.
Le dinamiche del reddito nella terza etŕ
Authors: Hill katherine
Published: June 2021

- Later life can be seen as period of income stability compared to other stages of the life course, and a key issue for older people in low income households is that they have limited means of pro-actively improving their financial situation. This article draws on a qualitative longitudinal study which explored how older people experienced changes in their financial circumstances across a two year period. The findings demonstrate that even where people did not feel that their financial circumstances had changed overall, this did not necessarily indicate a steady state. The study explored the interrelationship between changes in income and outgoings, as well as changing needs, and this article provides an insight into how social and personal resources are drawn on to help manage financial change and maintain stability. In doing so, it illustrates the extent of work that can be involved in maintaining a steady state in constrained circumstances.
Sull'irrilevanza della teoria: l'analisi del salario in Italia, 1890-1900
Authors: Romani Roberto
Published: June 2021

- The essay deals with the Italian economists' debate on wages at the time of the advent of trade unions. This new fact altered the wage level and prompted Italian economists' to reconsider the principles and circumstances shaping wages. It is argued that abstract economic theory such as Pareto's and Pantaleoni's exerted little influence over the ongoing public debate. Yet economists of less abstract leanings that is, inspired by Marshall or Schmöller rather than Walras played a crucial role by disseminating among the public the ideas and experiences current in more developed countries and in Britain in particular. As usual in second comer countries, economists came to embody ‘modernity', although the relatively backward social and political situation of Italy made imitation impossible in practice (e.g. paying the high wages recommended by Brassey, Brentano, and others). JEL classification: B13, B15, J58. Keywords: wage; trade unions; Pareto; historical school.
Book reviews
Authors:   Redazione
Published: June 2021

This paper reviews the classics of financial economics with the benefit of insight offered by the recent financial crisis. The failure of mainstream financial models to explain the observed behavior of markets is put in relation with Itzhak Gilboa's critique of the decisional model used for assessing choice under uncertainty. The paper argues that Gilboa's attempt to develop an alternative theory of decision under uncertainty has a clear Keynesian derivation.
Adolphe Landry: Monetary Stability and the Financing of Industrial Development
Authors: Dal-Pont Legrand Muriel , Torre Dominique , Tosi Elise
Published: June 2021

It is not so much known that before being a famous demographer Landry first contributed to political economy. Several scholars such as Edmund Malinvaud emphasized that it is not in doubt that Landry "revealed himself as a gifted theoretician". Supporting this view, the objective of this paper is to explain what were the initial monetary views developed by Landry and how he was influenced by different (and also non-orthodox) theoretical approaches. The gradual but also clear change we can observe in his monetary view was not only due to his theoretical lectures: as a public man, politically engaged, he was deeply influenced by his need to solve pragmatic issues. His efforts to reconcile his theoretical knowledge with his pragmatism led him to develop stimulating views on the then contemporary monetary theoretical questions.
Matematica e sociologia. Da Lazarsfeld alle reti neurali artificiali
Authors: Capecchi Vittorio
Published: June 2021

- This essay proposes a historical reconstruction in three phases of the relationship between sociology and mathematics: (a) P.F. Lazarfeld's choices regarding theory, methodology and mathematics within the objectivity paradigm; (b) the relationship between mathematics and sociology, from statistic models and artificial societies to social simulation; (c) the new possibilities that Artificial Neural Networks offer sociology.
Sostenibilitŕ sociale e consumi turistici
Authors: Savoja Luca
Published: June 2021

- The essay proposes a reflection on social sustainability in reference to tourist consumption. The goal is to analyze the transformation processes of typical in tourist attraction products and the role played by the local community in these processes. The transformation of a typical product into attraction is depicted as one of the most relevant aspects in contemporary models of tourist comsumption. These processes however are not free from contradictions and they produce important consequences in relation to dynamics of change of social relation models that regulate community life.
Il volontariato: una mappa concettuale
Authors: Psaroudakis Irene
Published: June 2021

The object of this essay is to trace a «conceptual map» of voluntarism, approaching its many features, its multiple definitions and analysis perspectives, in order to comprehend this phenomenon in light of its transformations over the recent years. For this purpose, the main «concepts», are considered at a micro, meso and macro level. Among the elements analyzed are: volunteer actions, «classic voluntarism», «new voluntarism», the role of the social network and its actors, solidarity, gift, reciprocity, identity, volunteer organizations, legislation and governance.
Dono e appropriazione. Il difficile nesso tra welfare e nuove forme del volontariato
Authors: Villa Matteo
Published: June 2021

The role of voluntarism has become ever more important in the Italian and European discussions on the crisis and transformation of welfare administration. Unfortunately in many cases it is taken for granted in its forms, meanings, roles and procedures. The risk is that the institutional system may choose to face a crisis by following development strategies on the basis of its own needs and preformed visions. This could lead to greatly distorted effects that force some realities to adapt in contradictory ways and drive others that do not follow such paradigms towards extinction. The essay shows pivotal aspects and possible perspectives of the relationship between the variety of voluntarism forms and the welfare system, focusing on assumptions and points of view that will help comprehend some of the recent developments and diverse experiences.
Riflessioni sull'identitŕ dei volontari. Verso la pluralizzazione dell'altruismo
Authors: Nuti Carolina
Published: June 2021

This essay focuses on the specific characteristics of the changes that voluntarism is facing, through the voices of those who daily live this reality. The experiences told by volunteers show profiles that are quite different from one another, where traditional and new elements interlace in ways that can hardly be described through abstract categories. The stories clearly show that individuals give numerous meanings to volunteer work, and that such meanings change continuously according to different frames of reference and different phases of life.
Is the impact of the ECB Monetary Policy on EMU stock market returns asymmetric?
Authors: Napolitano Oreste
Published: June 2021

This paper explore, using Markov switching models, the dynamic relationship between stock market returns and the monetary policy innovation in 11 EUM countries and, for five of them, at each single industry portfolios. It also investigates the possibility of asymmetric effects of the ECB decision when stock markets are not fully integrated. The findings indicate that there is statistically significant relationship between policy innovations and stock markets returns. The findings from country size and industry portfolios indicate that monetary policy has larger asymmetric effect on the industry portfolios of big countries (Italy, France and Germany) compared to the same sectors of small countries (Netherlands and Belgium).
Macroeconomic Effects of Central Bank Communication: Evidence from the Fed
Authors: Rosa Carlo , Breitenstein Tim
Published: June 2021

This paper employs exogenous measures of monetary policy shocks directly derived from financial market information to investigate how the economy responds to the surprise component of monetary policy decisions as opposed to central bank announcements about future movements in the policy rate. We find that the U.S. economy strongly reacts to the news shock, the difference between what the central bank announces regarding the future direction of monetary policy and what the market expects it to announce. The responses of output and prices to the unexpected component of policy decisions regarding the federal funds target rate are weak and have implausible signs.
Uninformed Traders in European Stock Markets
Authors: Modica Salvatore
Published: June 2021

A fully informed agent bets with an uninformed over the capital gains of an asset. A divide-and-choose idea is adapted to induce both trade and revelation of information, but in equlibrium the uninformed buys high and sells low if he is downside risk averse. The result may be seen as an informed-price-maker counterpart of some findings of Glosten-Milgrom (1985) and Kyle (1985) on uninformed agents trading in financial markets.
The Credit Securitisation Process as a Tool of Portfolio Credit Risk Managing
Authors: Annalisa Di Clemente
Published: June 2021

This study explores the role of the credit securitisation process in managing the credit risk amount of the banking loan portfolio, when the bank originator retains a residual equitylike class as illiquid first loss position (FLP). An Importance Sampling Monte Carlo simulation model has been implemented for estimating the portfolio credit risk amount, taking into account the portfolio credit risk mitigation effect provided by the credit securitisation process. This study identifies the credit asset pool able to produce the larger effect of credit risk reduction on the loan portfolio, when the asset pool is unloaded off the banking book. Moreover, this simulation analysis quantifies the extent of the portfolio credit risk mitigation, produced by the securitisation process of the asset pool previously identified. The impact of the securitisation activity has been also investigated when the probability of default and the asset return correlation of the obligors in portfolio are changing.
Standard minimi di qualitŕ: un approccio teorico
Authors: Iacopo Grassi
Published: June 2021

At least since Akerlof (1970), asymmetric information in the case of experience goods has been a central issue in the economic literature. This paper studies regulation in markets where the quality of the experience good is never completely verifiable by consumers even after purchase. In the proposed model firms can decide the quality of the good: always producing a high quality good creates a positive externality in the market, but it causes an incentive to the firms to deviate and produce low quality goods. The main policy instrument for the government, in order to maximize Social Welfare, is to fix a minimum quality standard, but imposing a too high standard might, in some cases, lower the average quality of the good in the market.
The Recessive Outcomes of Emu Policies: Analysis of the Italian Experience, 1998-2008
Authors: Rosaria Rita Canale , Oreste Napolitano
Published: June 2021

The EMU assigns a marginal role to economic policy and relies on the idea that, if prices are kept constant, there will be an automatic convergence towards long-run equilibrium income. These beliefs represent the theoretical underpinnings of fiscal and monetary policy strategies in Europe. In order to highlight the weakness of these foundations, this paper evaluates empirically the effects of public expenditure and interest rate setting on equilibrium income in Italy from 1998 to 2008. Our analysis supports the conclusions that government spending has a positive impact on national income while monetary policy strategy has a negative impact. Moreover, the high level of debt does not produce negative effects on GDP. Finally, at a time of financial crisis, these results are reinforced for fiscal policy, but weakened for monetary policy. The paper finally states that the EMU's rigid rules for both fiscal and monetary policy have recessive outcomes.
Lubiana: da provincia dell'Impero a capitale della Slovenia
Authors: Zupancic Strojan Tadeja
Published: June 2021

- The process that led to the creation of the Independent Republic of Slovenia in 1991 also led to a significant effort to rewrite the history of Slovenia and Ljubljana. In fact, there were many scholars who believed that there was no city planning before 1895, when Ljubljana was destroyed by an earthquake (Breda Mihelic, ... cit.). Others argued that there were plans that had been drawn up before the earthquake, but they had left only partial traces if they implemented at all. Up to 1849 Ljubljana was an important as an established river transit port for goods to and from the Danube basin. From this date, Ljubljana's development was accelerated by the arrival of a railway line that linked Vienna to the port of Trieste. The plan drafted in 1876 was limited to partial projects based on short-term programs. On the contrary, Max Fabiani and Camillo Sitte proposed ambitious projects for the reconstruction of cities destroyed by the earthquake of 1895.
Graz Grunderzeit
Authors: Hohmann-Vogrin Anna M.
Published: June 2021

- Graz in the Gründerzeit, the Era of Industrial Development Graz was an important military stronghold and commercial center in the mining basin of Styria. Archduke Johann of Hapsburg promoted the building of its first railway line in 1844, which was linked to the Vienna-Trieste line in 1857. Members of the rich industrial bourgeoisie were able to make investments that helped expand the city outside the walls, beginning with the 1830s. Graz's urban development plans were guided by criteria modeled after those of the Ring in Vienna. In the latter 1800s, Graz's projects for dealing with its increasing population reinforced this tendency, exemplified in the headquarters buildings of local political and economic powers, which give its outer rings its characteristic stately elegance.
Popolamento in un ambiente rurale fragile: insegnamenti dal caso di Keita, Niger, 1958-2007
Authors: Tiepolo Maurizio
Published: June 2021

- study of Keita, Niger, 1958-2007 (Processo di popolamento di un ambiente rurale fragile: insegnamenti dal caso di Keita, Niger, 1958-2007). Niger is a perfect case for studying the consequences of population growth on renewable natural resources (Rnr) since it is the 5th fastest growing county demographically and the country with the highest share of rural population. Studies of population pressure on Niger's Rnr have reached opposite findings. On the one hand, studies showed agricultural intensification, densification, and natural assisted regeneration. On the other hand, they also highlighted rain-fed crop encroachment on forest, bush, and grazing land; decrease in yields; and conflicts over access to water pasture. The coun- try is using a wide range of participatory tools for Rnr management and local development planning, but there has been little discussion on the effectiveness of these tools. This study seeks to find out what the trends regarding population growth and Rnr management are in Keita Department (5,000 sq km, pop. 258,000), a semi-arid, remote rural area where only 26% of the land is arable. 30 years of increasing population pressure (up to 86 inh. /sqkm in 2007) brought rain-fed crop encroachment on bush and rangeland. Intensification is absent both in rain-fed and in irrigated agriculture. Nevertheless, since 1984 the Keita rural development program has provided cereal selfsufficiency to at least one fourth of the 1988-2001-population growth and has reduced population pressure on forestland. At the present, municipal development plans have identified strategies based mainly on micro realizations. Road construction, microcredit, and higher value-added production are not being considered and strategies to secure the next generation's access to crop, forest, and grazing land are not being defined.
Acque di costa tra mare e terra: il paesaggio della pianura costiera di Pisa e Livorno secondo la cartografia del XVIII secolo
Authors: Guarducci Anna , Piccardi Marco , Rombai Leonardo
Published: June 2021

Lo scritto si basa sulle cartografie a grande scala disegnate nel XVIII secolo, soprattutto dal 1740, anno della ricognizione generale di Pompeo Neri e Tommaso Perelli. I committenti furono la grande proprietŕ fondiaria (Salviati, Mensa Arcivescovile di Pisa, Scrittoio delle Regie Possessioni) e gli uffici dell'amministrazione lorenese competenti in materia di lavori pubblici, di controllo politico-amministrativo del territorio e di gestione agricolo-forestale delle tante fattorie e tenute pubbliche. L'integrazione e la comparazione dei documenti consente di ricostruire l'assetto territoriale d'insieme della pianura a nord e a sud dell'Arno (tra Massaciuccoli e Livorno), con le trasformazioni avvenute dopo il 1740. Emergono i diversi ambienti e paesaggi che si susseguono dal mare all'interno, sotto il profilo geomorfologico-idrologico (spiagge e tomboli, lame e zone umide, bassa e alta pianura) e vegetazionale (foresta sempreverde, pineta, foresta planiziaria, pascoli naturali e prati artificiali, coltivazioni). Sono anche messe in luce le dinamiche che riguardano l'azione umana su: i corsi d'acqua, i canali artificiali e i recinti di colmata, le strade e le poche sedi umane stabili e temporanee, correlate alla fruizione agro-forestale del territorio, al di lŕ dei centri urbani di Pisa e Livorno e del sistema delle fortificazioni costiere.