A “Halfway Revolution”? A Reflection on Pasinetti’s Legacy From a Personal and Bibliometric Viewpoint

Name: A “Halfway Revolution”? A Reflection on Pasinetti’s Legacy From a Personal and Bibliometric Viewpoint
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RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI

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RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2025 - 2. An Issue in Honour of Luigi L. Pasinetti

Title

A “Halfway Revolution”? A Reflection on Pasinetti’s Legacy From a Personal and Bibliometric Viewpoint

Authors

Mario A. Maggioni, T. Erika Uberti

Publisher

Vita e Pensiero

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07-2025

Doi

10.26350/000518_000152

Issn

0035-676X (print) | 1827-7918 (digital)

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This paper celebrates the intellectual legacy of Pasinetti, firstly sharing some personal reflections of one of the authors of this paper and secondly presenting a bibliometric analysis that compares one of his most significant works – the 1981 volume “Structural Change and Economic Growth” with Nelson and Winter’s “An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change”. Using both statistical indices and social network analysis methods, this study proposes an additional hypothesis to explain the substantial influence of Pasinetti’s work, which “failed to achieve wide acceptance”. By examining a selection of papers citing these two foundational volumes and analysing the resulting networks of scientific collaboration among their authors, this study suggests that Pasinetti’s limited diffusion in the economic literature – despite his many significant theoretical contributions – may be partially attributable to the limited presence of co-authored work in his body of research and a similar collaboration pattern among scholars citing his works.

keywords

Pasinetti legacy, structural change, evolutionary economics.

Authors biography

Mario A. Maggioni, T. Erika Uberti, DISEIS and CSCC, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. E-mail Maggioni: mario.maggioni@unicatt.it. E-mail Uberti: erika.uberti@unicatt.it.