Mario A. Maggioni
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RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2021 - 4. A Special Issue on “The Economy of Francesco”
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Year:
2021
Ultimo fascicolo del 2021
Introduction
The Economy of Francesco: A Process More Than an Event
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Year:
2021
This introductory paper explains why the Economy of Francesco (EoF) is a relevant topic for a special issue of Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali/Research In Social Sciences, in terms of its quantitative relevance, the innovativeness of the method, the average age of the actors involved, and its interdisciplinary scope...
Italian Regions Facing a New Crisis: Some Opening Remarks
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Year:
2021
The paper looks at regional economic structure and performance of Italian regions and reviews some recent contributions focussed on the Italian “Mezzogiorno” with a specific focus on the effect of the 2008 financial crisis and the recent Pandemics (Covid-19) crisis. A comparison between Italy and the rest of the EU indicates a structural difference between the underperforming Italian economy and the rest of the Union due to the specific structure of the Italian economy in terms of sector and firm size and the consequences on strategic and organizational issues of weak small businesses and inefficient medium and large enterprises...
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Growing up in Africa: Age and Pro-Social Attitudes in Primary
Schoolchildren in Goma (DRC)
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Year:
2017
While an extensive literature based on analysis conducted in developed countries shows that primary school children develop prosocial attitudes as they grow older, with school acting as the main driver of the socialisation process, there is little evidence of what may happen in very different socio-cultural and economic context...
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Life’s About Change. How Relations Transform Individual
Attitudes, Choices and Behaviors
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Year:
2017
Searching for escapes from the ‘‘algorithmic cage’’ of homo economicus, experimental and behavioral economics appear as a step towards the ‘‘whole breadth of reason’’ highlighting the role of interpersonal relation in human decisions and actions. We explore how individual choices, attitudes and traits change over a congruous period of time, due to exposure to an intense relational experience within a caring community...
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‘‘The whole breadth of reason’’: a step towards rethinking economics and rationality
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Year:
2012
The paper, which acts as an introduction to the Special Issue devoted to ‘‘The whole breadth of
reason’’, addresses the topic of economic rationality and discusses its strengths and weaknesses
within an interdisciplinary perspective highlighting the relational dimension of agents and actions.
Exiting the cage of homo economicus, we critically discuss both behavioral economics and neuro
economics approaches, showing that they are not immune from limitations due to both dubious
technical procedures and fragile epistemological foundations. When taking rational decision under
structural uncertainty, human beings rely on default practices which are inherently developed and
dynamically adapted within a community of concrete individuals; they also tend to provide persuasive
justification of one’s belief to other people. The paper concludes that rationality is a powerful
tool, within a relational, dynamic, realistic and ‘whole’ anthropology.
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