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The European Journal of Comparative Economics - Volume 2 Numero 1, Giugno 2005

Russia: an abnormal country.

Abstract Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman recently rendered a summary verdict on the post Soviet Russian transition experience ...... This essay demonstrates that they are mistaken on the first count, and are likely ...

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The European Journal of Comparative Economics - Volume 2 Numero 1, Giugno 2005

Core inflation in a small transition country: choice of optimal measures.

Abstract Several non-monetary (mainly supply) factors affect prices in the short-run. It is widely acknowledged that in ...... For this reason, it is crucial for central banks to work out, study and follow the behavior of core inflation that enables to ...

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Il Pensiero Politico; Firenze - Volume 38 Numero 3, Settembre 2005

Mazzini's International League in the Light of the London Democratic Manifestos (1837-1850)

I have to thank the organisers of this Congress for inviting me to ...... Writing in English after 1839, Mazzini was involved in the socio-political Chartist literature, which ...... As you know, La Démoaatie en Amérique by Alexis de Tocqueville, published in 1835, was translated into English in the same year, and achieved great success. Henry ...

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The European Journal of Comparative Economics - Volume 3 Numero 1, Giugno 2006

Professor Gerschenkron goes to Brussels. Russian catch-up economics and the common European space (1).

Abstract Ongoing discussions between Russia and the EU on the formation of a Common European ...... This paper argues that the institutions that once produced a specific kind of catch-up economics in Czarist Russia still remain largely the same. Unless negotiations between Moscow and ...

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The European Journal of Comparative Economics - Volume 3 Numero 2, Dicembre 2006

Government-business relations and catching up reforms in the CIS.

1. Introduction An evident result of the past fifteen years of economic transition of the ...... Soviet republics, which are currently members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). While ...

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Il Pensiero Politico; Firenze - Volume 38 Numero 3, Settembre 2005

Is It Possible to Protect Cultural Diversity? A Mathematical Model

1. Is culture becoming global? The Internet, cable TV and modern transportations, ...... The simultaneous compression of time and space produced by these new technologies tends to create a global ......cceed in keeping their diversity? The debate over globalization is often passionate ...

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Il Pensiero Politico; Firenze - Volume 38 Numero 3, Settembre 2005

Commonwealth Principles. Republican Writings of the English Revolution

a cura di ENZO BALDINI, VITTORIO CONTI, DOMENICO TARANTO SCOTT J., Commonwealth Principles. Republican writings of the English Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge ...... Questo volume si colloca esplicitamente, e criticamente, nel solco tracciato dalla "Scuola di Cambridge" e dall'insegnamento di John Pocock, proponendosi di «supplement the work of those who have given accounts of English ...

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Il Pensiero Politico; Firenze - Volume 41 Numero 1, Gennaio 2008

Scritti Politici in Inglese da Attribuire ad Engels (1850-1851)

Michael Levin, nel volume The Condition of England Question: Carlyle, Mill, ...... 137-156), dove si legge the Engels «consistently regarded England as forming the vanguard of political as much as of economic ...

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Il Pensiero Politico; Firenze - Volume 41 Numero 2, Maggio 2008

A Simple Model of the Struggle Between Political Activists and Big Corporations Controlling the Media

Is the press free and fair? Democracy is, by definition,...... Following Samuel Huntington:2 «A political system is defined as democratic to the extent that its most powerful collective ...... The way representatives are elected is, therefore, a ...