Andrea Villani
Author's titles
Design for a new Third Way. Comments and discussion on:
Marc Fleurbaey et al., A Manifesto for Social Progress.
Ideas for a Better Society
digital
Year:
2020
Undoubtedly, the XXth century’s great ideological models have gone into crisis, at least in the sense that today it is challenging for them to be fully taken by some government and as a polar reference by large political forces on a world scale. Today we are confronted with globalist ideologies and practices and communitarian tensions...
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Searching for a Revival of a Great Ideology. A note on
A Manifesto for the Liberalism of the XXIst Century
digital
Year:
2019
The Economist, in the time of its 175th birthday, has drawn up and submitted a ‘‘Manifesto for Renewing Liberalism for the XXIst Century’’. Here is carried out an analysis of the main goals of this Manifesto, that is the emphasis on the importance of the idea of liberty as a guideline for life, action and development of every individual and of every community...
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Good Reasons for Liberal Democracy and the Fear to Lose it
digital
Year:
2018
In this time of a great crisis of liberalism, after what for decades seemed to be a triumph, Paolo Savona, with pedagogical intentions, critically reviews the theoretical and practical development of this cultural and political movement. His primary goal is to offer evidence of the objectives of liberalism at the individual and collective levels of personal and social freedom in all their possible expressions...
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James Buchanan and the Economics of Constitutions
digital
Year:
2013
One of the most important debates in today’s economic policy is between Neo-Liberals supporters
of free market and Neo-Keynesians supporting the fundamental relevance of public action. In this
paper the James M. Buchanan’s role among the masters of neo-liberal politics is underlined. In
his approach, market and political process founded on the exchange are considered good in themselves,
and at the basis of the rationality of choice not only for the individual behaviour but also
for public choices is set the individual, in a contractarian-constitutionalist perspective. Particularly
Buchanan’s contributions in the economics of politics, and his role in the debate about justice are
analysed and discussed here.
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The search of virtue and the communitarian story. Conceptions of justice in Michael Sandel
digital
Year:
2012
This paper considers and analyses theses about justice supported by Michael Sandel. The crucial
problem concerns the connection between the definition of good for every individual and for a society,
and if this good must be defined and pursued freely, or if it can be established by other persons.
The question is open and Sandel supports that not necessarily a society where exists the widest degree
of freedom is also a good society. In such a situation Sandel supports the idea that in any
case the possible choice for individual and society should be discussed in terms of reason, and yet
maintaining the maximum freedom in the society. He emphasizes the need of a civic engagement
by those who support the importance of moral values as identified according to the Communitarian
tradition, and according what is thought as a personal and civic virtue to be practised.
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Social Justice and Capability Approach. A note on theses of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum about the importance of pursuing goals of social justice through the capability approach
digital
Year:
2012
This paper examines theses of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum about the importance of pursuing
goals of social justice through the capability approach. Are considered here the reasons of
such a method, whose aim is to reach development of the capabilities of every human being. It is
discussed also if the ends proposed by Sen and Nussbaum – that can be appreciated and culturally
supported – can be considered fruit of a neutral contractarian approach, as behind a Rawlsian
‘veil of ignorance’, to which Nussbaum makes explicit reference. Neutral approach, that is of
subjects without awareness of their specific interests in the process of bargaining. Or instead proposals
intuitively established, rationally justifiable only ex-post, that could find their implementation
as the contractarian outcome of a real confrontation among social actors, supporters of specific
diversified interest in a liberal and democratic society.
Keywords: Justice, Criteria of rationality in individual and social choice, Utopia, Democracy.
JEL Classification: A 12, A 13, B 41.
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Social Rules and Agreements Besides the ‘Invisible Hand’ A note on Carlo Beretta, «Non di solo mercato... Ruolo e ragioni di accordi, regole e istituzioni»
digital
Year:
2012
ABSTRACT
Recently an old debate amongst scholars of economics and of other social sciences has been revived:
that between supporters of the free market and supporters of public regulation of economic
activity, the aims being specifically that of efficiency according to the former group, and development,
stability and social justice for the latter.
In this paper we consider Carlo Beretta’s analysis, which by means of a historical and theoretical
method, gives evidence of the limits of the neoclassical approach, and emphasizes the importance
of social rules and agreements, i.e. the need for the intervention of collective institutions in order
to reach the fundamental goals of social and economic policy.
KEYWORDS: Market, development, public institutions.
JEL Classification: B290, B410.
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In Search of Good Economics. A note on Luigi Lodovico Pasinetti, «Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians»
digital
Year:
2010
This paper analyses Luigi Pasinetti’s evaluation of the meaning, importance and outcomes of the
Keynesian revolution and the role played by the most important of the Cambridge Keynesians; it
also considers the results of his attempt to complete John Maynard Keynes’ and Piero Sraffa’s elaboration,
introducing the idea of a «natural economic system». In particular some of Pasinetti’s theories
concerning the role of economics together with the other social sciences in leading to an understanding
of production and distribution in industrial and post-industrial society, and in establishing
scientific policy guidelines, are discussed.
Key words: Distribution and development, criteria of rationality in social choices, separation theorem,
third way.
JEL Classification: B290, B410.
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«La Città delle Meraviglie» nell’utilitarismo ideale di John Maynard Keynes
digital
Year:
2009
We describe and explain some of the goals Keynes establishes for the government. The lines Keynes suggested for reaching a situation of full employment are only one part of the story. For Keynes, in a vision which we define «ideal utilitarianism», it is important to reach not only a situation of full employment, but also «the city of the wonders». He thinks that it is possible and rational for educated and intelligent human beings to live a «good life» where one enjoys true goods, at personal and social level. Keynes thinks it is possible to identify these goals rationally, and to achieve them through expertly informed state intervention.
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Gli economisti, la distribuzione, la giustizia: Milton Friedman
digital
Year:
2007
The main goal of this essay is to outline the fundamental theses of Milton Friedman about the
distribution of all goods. The ethical principles supporting and justifying the Friedman’s positions are
enucleated, and some theoretical and practical difficulties in terms of justice inherent in his conceptions
are set in evidence. I.e. the difficulties in particular inherent to a model of society and economics
founded on freedom in the widest sense, of all actors and agents, and substantially of all citizens.
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Utopia e piano processo. Un dibattito sul metodo nella pianificazione urbanistica
digital
Year:
2006
In the mid Sixties, there has been a strong debate about the governance of the urban development
of Milan and its metropolitan area. Two alternative models proposed put forward contrasting
views. On one side, those who supported the opportunity of a planning based on great transport infrastructures,
to predetermine the outcome of the urban development. On the opposite side, those
who thought that such a goal was neither correct nor politically attainable, and stressed instead the
importance of process planning. The debate did neither consider the consequences of the implementation,
nor the problems involved in the management of each model. This debate anticipated an analogous
one both at theoretical and political level in the field of urban planners in the Western
world.
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