Bologna è una città in crisi. Una crisi istituzionale, ma sopratutto una crisi politica le cui origini vanno rintracciate indietro nel tempo. Come affrontarla evitando la lamentazione fine a se stessa, la mitizzazione del passato, la protesta di stampo demagogico e populista, la rassegnazione a un degrado culturale che sembra inarrestabile? Abbiamo riunito in questo volume voci che appartengono a culture, generazioni e professioni diverse, accomunate dalla volontà di non rimanere alla supe...

The separation between ownership and control has become common practice over the last century, in most medium and large firms across the world. Throughout the twentieth century, the theory of the firm and the theory of industrial organization developed parallel and complementary views on managerial firms. This book offers a comprehensive exposition of this debate.In its survey of strategic delegation in oligopoly games, An Economic Theory of Managerial Firms is able to off...

Game theory has revolutionised our understanding of industrial organisation and the traditional theory of the firm. Despite these advances, industrial economists have tended to rely on a restricted set of tools from game theory, focusing on static and repeated games to analyse firm structure and behaviour. Luca Lambertini, a leading expert on the application of differential game theory to economics, argues that many dynamic phenomena in industrial organisation (such as monopoly, oligopoly,...

Individuals, firms, governments and nations behave strategically, for good and bad. Over the last few decades, game theory has been constructed and progressively refined to become the major tool used by social scientists to understand, predict and regulate strategic interaction among agents who often have conflicting interests. In the surprisingly anodyne jargon of the theory, they ‘play games’. This book offers an introduction to the basic tools of game theory and an overview of a number ...

Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the environment and the world’s natural resources, a new consensus has emerged concerning the need to regulate firm behaviour, aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the economic system in the long run.

Si tu ne choisis pas ta vie, on t'en imposera une.Le système n'est pas contre toi. Il est indifférent à toi. C'est pire. L'école t'apprend à exécuter les instructions des autres. Le salariat te rémunère pour construire le patrimoine de quelqu'un d'autre. Dans ce système, ta réussite n'est qu'une éventualité, pas une promesse.La seule sortie : construire. Quitter les gradins. Passer du Mode Spectateur au WAR MODE. La règle est simple : trouve un problème rée...