Abstract This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of […]
Abstract We investigate how the patterns of consumption and accumulation, as well as the patterns of time allocation and of social interaction, may be influenced by […]
Abstract The problem of the accumulation of capital in labor-managed firms and worker cooperatives has being attracting considerable attention among researchers. The Furubotn-Pejovich effect is considered […]
Premessa Chi rappresenta il nonprofit in Italia? Chi si sente rappresentato e da chi? Come le centinaia di migliaia di aziende nonprofit, e tutti coloro che […]
Abstract We examine the behavior of a profit maximizing monopolist in a horizontal differentiation model in which consumers differ in their degree of social responsibility (SR) […]
Abstract We present a wide collection of experiments which show how human behavior deviates substantially with respect to the predictions derived from standard homo economicus assumptions. […]
Abstract The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which […]
Abstract The analysis of the empirical studies relative to the Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) case highlights the necessity to enlarge the set of categories used to […]
Introduzione Il concetto di capitale sociale si è affermato, in ambito sociologico, a partire dalla fine degli anni ottanta grazie ai contributi di Pierre Bourdieu (1986) […]
Introduction The process of globalisation affects more and more the life quality of people around the world. In particular it impinges in different ways upon their […]