Gloria GUIDOTTI, Filologia e cultura tra Spagna e Italia

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Ancora sulla diaspora dei gesuiti spagnoli in Italia. Il contributo di Terreros e di Hervás alla grammaticografia italo-spagnola del settecento

Risulta interessante sottolineare la notevole importanza che la diaspora dei gesuiti spagnoli in Italia ha rappresentato, anche se forzosamente, come fenomeno di contatto e di reciproca influenza fra cultura spagnola ed italiana. Fra i molti gesuiti che hanno contribuito a costituire questa sorta di ponte fra le due culture, vorrei in questa sede ricordare due figure rilevanti nella linguistica settecentesca, Esteban de Terreros y Pando e Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro. All’interno della loro vastissima produzione di autori poligrafi, mi interessa in particolare rilevare il loro contributo in ambito grammaticografico, dal momento che entrambi composero testi grammaticali per lo studio e l’insegnamento dell’italiano a ispanofoni, vale a dire le Reglas acerca de la lengua toscana (Terreros 1771) e la Gramática de la lengua italiana (Hervás 1797).Risulta interessante sottolineare la notevole importanza che la diaspora dei gesuiti spagnoli in Italia ha rappresentato, anche se forzosamente, come fenomeno di contatto e di reciproca influenza fra cultura spagnola ed italiana. Fra i molti gesuiti che hanno contribuito a costituire questa sorta di ponte fra le due culture, vorrei in questa sede ricordare due figure rilevanti nella linguistica settecentesca, Esteban de Terreros y Pando e Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro. All’interno della loro vastissima produzione di autori poligrafi, mi interessa in particolare rilevare il loro contributo in ambito grammaticografico, dal momento che entrambi composero testi grammaticali per lo studio e l’insegnamento dell’italiano a ispanofoni, vale a dire le Reglas acerca de la lengua toscana (Terreros 1771) e la Gramática de la lengua italiana (Hervás 1797)

The Road Not Taken – Reading Calabresi’s “The Future of Law and Economics”

The publication of Guido Calabresi’s book “The Future of Law and Economics” has drawn a substantial amount of attention among law and economics scholars. We thought that the best way to devote special attention to this book was to devote a Special issue to it. This article situates Calabresi’s book among other reflections on the future of the discipline, introduces and explains the reasons behind this Special issue and discuss the organization and content of it. We emphasize how Calabresi’s historical-conceptual standpoint allows him to isolate the stakes of different future developments around the question of how could further appreciation of legal institutions that defy the standard economic assumptions help the field develop theoretically. Overall, the contributors all shared Calabresi’s attempt to restore the balance between Law and Economics and the need to better account for the “whole unanalysed experience of human race”, often neglected by the Economic Analysis of Law approach. Most disagreements are about the ‘how’. In any case, the search for the Law and Economics ‘not (yet) taken’ or for other “Law and … ” approaches is always open to the Future

The ideal of good government in Luigi Einaudi's Thought and Life: Between Law and Freedom

I will argue here that Einaudi's thought reveals an awareness that the question of freedom has to do with two inter-related problems: the relation of individuals or communities with their respective limits and the question of going beyond these limits. Limits are to be understood here in the meaning of the foundation or conditions of possibility both of institutions (economic, political and juridical) and of thought and human action

Disputed (Disciplinary) Boundaries : Philosophy, Economics and Value Judgments

The paper aims to address the following two questions: what kind of discourse is that which attempt to found or defend the autonomy or the boundaries of a discipline? Why do such discourses tend to turn into normative, dogmatic-excommunicating discourses between disciplines, schools or scholars? I will argue that an adequate answer may be found if we conceive disciplines as dogmatics, where such discourses often take the form of a discourse on the foundation of a discipline, a foundation in the name of which the scholar speaks and with which he/she entertains an identity relationship. To this purpose I will re-examine the methodological discourses of (and debates between) Pareto, Croce and Einaudi on the demarcation issue between philosophy, economics and value-judgments as highly instructive to understand such issues

The All too Human Welfare State: Freedom between Gift and Corruption

Can taxation and the redistribution of wealth through the welfare state be conceived as a modern system of circulation of the gift? But once such a gift is institutionalized, regulated and sanctioned through legal mechanisms, does it not risk being perverted or corrupted, and/or not leaving room for genuinely altruistic motives? What is more: if the market’s utilitarian logic can corrupt or ‘crowd out’ altruistic feelings or motivations, what makes us think that the welfare state cannot also be a source of corruption? To explain the standard answers to the abovementioned questions as well as their implications I will first re-examine two opposing positions assumed here as paradigmatic examples of other similar positions: on the one hand, Titmuss’s work and the never-ending debate about it; on the other, Godbout’s position, in-so-far as it shows how Titmuss’s arguments can easily be turned upside down. I will then introduce and reinterpret Einaudi’s “critical point” theory as a more complex and richer anthropological explanation of the problems and answers considered herein. Through the analysis of these paradigmatic positions I will develop two interrelated arguments. 1) The way these problems are posed as well as the standard answers to them are: a) subject to fallacies: the dichotomy fallacy and the fallacy of composition; b) too reductive and simplistic: we should at least try to clarify what kind of ‘gift’ or ‘corruption’ we are thinking about, and who or what the ‘giver’, the ‘corrupter’, the ‘receiver’ and/or the ‘corrupted’ party are. 2) The answers to these problems cannot be found by merely following a theoretical approach, nor can they be merely based on empirical evidence; instead, they need to take into account the forever troublesome, ambiguous and unpredictable matter of human freedom

Introduction. Luigi Einaudi: Poised between Ideal and Real

In this article we introduce the reader to the reasons that led to this collection: an interdisciplinary exploration aimed at renewing interest in Luigi Einaudi’s search for «good government», broadly understood as «good society». Prompted by the Einaudian quest, the essays – exploring philosophy of law, economics, politics and epistemology – develop the issue of good government in several forms, including the relationship between public and private, public governance, the question of freedom and the complexity of the human in contemporary societies. The common thread of these essays is that problematic but indissoluble knot that tells us something deeply human: our being torn between homing and roaming, institutional and individual, law and freedom, real and ideal

Good government, Governance and Human Complexity. Luigi Einaudi’s Legacy and Contemporary Society

The book presents an interdisciplinary exploration aimed at renewing interest in Luigi Einaudi’s search for “good government”, broadly understood as “good society”. Prompted by the Einaudian quest, the essays - exploring philosophy of law, economics, politics and epistemology - develop the issue of good government in several forms, including the relationship between public and private, public governance, the question of freedom and the complexity of the human in contemporary societies

Child care, asili nido e modelli di welfare

The paper presents a model of the market for early child care services, where the preferences of households and local government are influenced by relative prices, disposable income and cost conditions, as well as «social norms» such as the attitude to working women and the value assigned to the educational (as well as supervisory) role of institutional child care. A simple partial equilibrium model describes alternative outcomes in the allocation of private and public provision. In the case of the latter the allocation scheme could be influenced by the welfare model adopted by local governments: this could explain their paternalistic policies and may lead to conflict with the motivations of households, which may be affected by the «consolidation of needs» induced by a long tradition of public provision at prices lower than average costs. Moreover public budget constraints interfere with the diverging attitudes of the various players by introducing rationing schemes and redistributive goals that reduce «market» transparency. The empirical importance of the «non economic» motivations referred to above therefore seems to make them a major issue to be considered when evaluating the allocation process. Using a survey on economic and social conditions of the households in the province of Modena in 2006, which directly surveys the willingness to pay for child care services, the second part of the paper explores the demand for early child care through an econometric estimation of the reservation price with particular attention to «economic» and «non economic» determinants. There are complex relationships between the motivations of local government and households: the paternalistic behaviour of public providers is clear from their supply and price strategies; on the other hand, households seem to be affected by a form of needs consolidation which is a barrier to the correct evaluation of the costs and benefits of services, and by a greater focus on mere «child-minding». The tensions between the different attitudes of households and local governments reflects the different welfare models which implicitly underlie their behaviour. This points to the need for a more explicit dialogue between local governments and citizens on the costs and benefits of the services involved, to improve the transparency of this «market».child care; merit goods; willingness to pay