Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amedeo Fossati Author-Name: Paolo Silvestri Title: Un inedito dissidio epistemologico sui miti e paradossi della giustizia tributaria di einaudi: le lettere perdute di Mauro Fasiani Abstract: The publication of Miti e paradossi della giustizia tributaria in 1938 originated an important epistemological debate between Einaudi and Fasiani. In Miti e paradossi, "useful?projects are considered as part of the scientific approach, and science has an interest in good governance and in the ideal economic tax, understood as tax on average or normal income. These Einaudi?s propositions deeply troubled Fasiani who still followed Einaudi?s original idea that any value judgment, expression of sentiment or precept is out of the economic science. Thus, Fasiani wrote a critical review regarding the epistemological setting of Miti e paradossi, in the form of two long letters addressed to Einaudi. However, Fasiani never sent them, because he had the concern that they could be considered disrespectful. Despite being mentioned in the correspondence Einaudi-Fasiani, such unsent letters had gone lost, but has now been found in the Archives of Turati Foundation, and are published here in Appendix. Keywords: Italian tradition in Public Finance; Mauro Fasiani, Luigi Einaudi, epistemology, economic science Classification-JEL: B13, B2, B31, B41, H1, H2 Keywords: Note: Pages:5-80 Volume: 2012/108 Year: 2012 Issue:108 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=49856&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/STE2012-108001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Santiago Capraro Author-Name: Carlo Panico Author-Name: Ignacio Perrotini Author-Name: Francesco Purificato Title: Austerit? o politiche coordinate ed espansive? Le difficili scelte delle autorit? europee Abstract: The paper deals with the debt crisis in the euro zone. The literature presents two interpretations of these events. The first attributes the responsibility of the crisis to the political authorities of the countries under attack. They let the citizens live beyond the standard allowed by the economy. This interpretation supports the use of austerity policies to solve the crisis. The second interpretation argues that the political authorities of all the European Union are responsible for the crisis. They kept alive an institutional organization of the coordination process between monetary and fiscal policies, which was known to be faulty. The paper presents theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the second interpretation. It argues that austerity fails to stabilise the public debt and contends that a coordination process based on effective enforcement and on a European Fiscal Agency can achieve better results by favouring the adoption of coordinated and expansive fiscal policies. Classification-JEL: E52, E61, E62, H63 Keywords: Note: Pages:81-112 Volume: 2012/108 Year: 2012 Issue:108 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=49857&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/STE2012-108002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Pench Title: Willingness to pay for environmental quality: a theoretical problem and its implications Abstract: This paper demonstrates a case where theoretical measures of willingness to pay to secure a beneficial change in environmental quality (or in the available quantity of a public good) or to avoid an exactly opposite change are incorrect measure of maximum willingness to pay. The key requirement is that indifference curves are allowed to intersect the axis corresponding to environmental quality (or the public good with zero price) and the source of this theoretical flaw is that in spite of a zero marginal willingness to pay marginal utility for environmental quality (or for the public good) is strictly positive. In such cases the paper suggests that only correct measures are the corresponding willingness to accept for the opposite change. Classification-JEL: Q50, Q51 Keywords: Note: Pages:113-119 Volume: 2012/108 Year: 2012 Issue:108 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=49858&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/STE2012-108003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Otello Ardovino Author-Name: Luca Pennacchio Title: Le determinanti della cooperazione nei distretti tecnologici italiani finanziati dal governo Abstract: This paper aims to identify the factors that result in cooperation in R&D in high-tech industrial sectors. Our research focused on Italian technological districts created under a specific public policy to promote innovation and regional economic development. The most interesting results concern the effect of the structural characteristics of the individual districts upon collaboration choices: the probability of cooperating is higher in districts in which universities and public research centres have a major weight and in districts with governance more geared to market logic. Network effects, captured with key indicators typical of social network analysis, also play an important role in causing the propensity to cooperate. Our findings confirm the importance of factors identified by the traditional?literature and which may be chiefly ascribed to the transfer and absorption of knowledge. However, the latter would appear to have less impact on collaboration strategies than specific district factors and network effects. Classification-JEL: C35, D22, L14, O31, O32 Keywords: Note: Pages:121-149 Volume: 2012/108 Year: 2012 Issue:108 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=49859&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/STE2012-108004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Federico Pica Title: L?opera di luca antonini, "federalismo all?italiana": ovvero del pensiero ellittico Abstract: The paper About the Work of Luca Antonini on "Federalismo all?italiana": or else about his Elliptical Thinking, by Federico Pica, has for object the wide and detailed reconstruction proposed by Luca Antonini on the vicissitudes of the "fiscal federalism", in Italy. Antonini is the chairman of the Joint Technical Commission for the Implementation of Fiscal Federalism, established by the Italian government, to exercise, among other things, the function of "acquiring and processing cognitive elements for the elaboration of the contents of the legislative decrees". He is the principal advisor of the Minister Calderoli, who tied to his name the Act which regulates today the Italian electoral system (so called "porcellum") and also the rules for applying the "fiscal federalism". The paper presented here is a systematic and radical criticism of the Antonini?s views and also of the implementing measures of the "federalist" reform. Classification-JEL: H70, H75, H77, H79 Keywords: Note: Pages:151-175 Volume: 2012/108 Year: 2012 Issue:108 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=49860&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/STE2012-108005 Number: 5