Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A cura della Redazione Title: Symposium. The Limits to Growth: Economic Theorizing and Policymaking, 1972-2021 Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-6 Volume: 11 Year: 2022 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=71489&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2022-001001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alessandro Le Donne Title: Forecasting in the Long-Term: Aurelio Peccei, a Quite Neglected Manager and Utopian Abstract: Aurelio Peccei (1908-1984) was an Italian top manager who worked in FIAT and Olivetti and founded in 1968 the Club of Rome (CoR), an informal group of politicians and intellectuals. They had the objective to clearly scrutiny into the af-termath of the economic growth which apparently paid no consideration for its negative side effects, especially the exhaustion of energy sources, and, in general, its sustainability: all that sums up in the phrase world problematique. The present paper deals with Aurelio Peccei and the main points of his futurology, in the light of the thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel, whom Peccei considered as his mentor. We will discuss how, according to Peccei?s vision, only through a cultural revolu-tion a process of social changings eventually leading to sustainable equilibria could be set up in motion. Moreover, the issues under investigation were deemed com-mon to both capitalist and socialist countries so that the solutions would have to apply to both fronts of the Cold War. Indeed, in Peccei?s approach, the reshaping of the international order would be a non-political process; maybe unknowingly, Peccei and the CoR doctrine seem to have a utopian, Saint-Simonian flavour. Classification-JEL: B00, B19, B31 Keywords: Note: Pages:7-23 Volume: 11 Year: 2022 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=71490&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2022-001002 Number: 2 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=71490 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aurelio Garc?a-Garc?a Title: The limits to growth of buen vivir socialism: Ecuador?s alternative development model from 2007 to 2017 Abstract: In 2006, the political coalition Alianza PA?S promoted a "Citizen?s Revolution" in Ecuador that would put an end to neoliberal policies and lead the country to "buen vivir". However, the coalition?s arrival to the government and the negotiations of the 2008 Constitution generated fractures and splits within the party. The buen vivir was divided into three trends: Indianist, environmentalist and socialist. The socialist trend became the state representative, although it had huge controversies with the other two trends because it opted for a new post-neoliberal development model, while the indianists and ecologists rejected the continuity of the developmentalist models. This article presents the main characteristics of the three trends of buen vivir. In addition, based on the work The Limits to Growth and through the analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators, it is shown how the socialist model of buen vivir (2007-2017) was an unsustainable model in the medium and long term. Classification-JEL: E000, O110, O130, P200, P280 Keywords: Note: Pages:25-59 Volume: 11 Year: 2022 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=71491&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2022-001003 Number: 3 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=71491 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eric Dehay Title: Talking about growth, the discourse of the European Central Bank, 1997-2021 Abstract: The text proposes an analysis of the way the European Central Bank (ECB) considers the notion of economic growth or its limits and how the question of envi-ronmental risk has become an issue for it. For this purpose, an analysis of the speeches of the members of its board is carried out over the period 1997-2021. An automated statistical analysis of the corpus reveals the standard approach to growth adopted by the ECB. This is followed by a more qualitative reading of the discourse, which shows that the notions of sustainability and the climate crisis are becoming increasingly important in the rhetoric of the ECB, without leading to a radical revision of the way growth is conceived or to a questioning of its limits. In order to expand its discourse and action in the climate field, the ECB is rather pro-ceeding by superimposition, adding new ideas rather than replacing its initial paradigm. In doing so, it protects the legitimacy of its mandate and its epistemic credibility. Classification-JEL: E58, E65, O43, Q54 Keywords: Note: Pages:61-82 Volume: 11 Year: 2022 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=71492&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2022-001004 Number: 4 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=71492 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Charles R. McCann Jr. Author-Name: Luca Fiorito Title: Sidney Armor Reeve: Engineer, Inventor, Progressive, and Underappreciated Utopian Abstract: Sidney Armor Reeve, professional engineer and amateur historian, economist, and sociologist, writing during what has been described as the Progressive Era, at-tacked the very foundations of the existing economic and social orders. He explic-itly criticized the dominant commercialism of the capitalist society as being a can-cer, a major cause of inequality and unemployment, offering instead a program of reform that, while some reviewers characterized it as consistent with the program of the socialists, presented something of an alternative vision, one recognizing the primacy of the Ultimate Consumer. His remedy, favoring as it did the central con-trol of the economy, shared at least commonalities with the reforms advocated by the socialist writers of the period, even as he himself rejected the label, unequivo-cally stressing points of fundamental disagreement. Classification-JEL: B15, B25, B31, B41 Keywords: Note: Pages:83-126 Volume: 11 Year: 2022 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=71493&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2022-001005 Number: 5 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=71493 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A cura della Redazione Title: Book reviews Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:127-140 Volume: 11 Year: 2022 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=71494&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/SPE2022-001006 Number: 6