UNESCO Chair Bernard Maris

2020-03-16

Elisa Giuliani was Visiting Professor at Science Po Toulouse in 2019. “It was a great pleasure and honor to be invited by the Chaire UNESCO Bernard Maris « Economie Sociétés ».” Bernard Maris was a French economist, writer and journalist at Charlie …

Feasible Alternatives to Green Growth

2020-03-09

Hot off the press, it is a pleasure to share our latest article with you, titled: ‘Feasible Alternatives to Green Growth’ published in Nature Sustainability. The paper explores the difficulty of achieving a low-carbon transition together with social justice through …

The noxious consequences of innovation: what do we know?

2020-02-20

A new paper “The noxious consequences of innovation: what do we know?” is now out. The paper reviews extant literature addressing the harmful impacts of innovation on society and the environment and sets a new agenda for research (see abstract …

Predatory Journals: a new paper just out in Nature

2020-01-14

Predatory journals: no definition, no defence Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. A new paper …

Partnership in Forum per la Disuguaglianza e Diversità

2019-11-10

Chiara Certomà is now project partner in the Forum per la Disuguaglianza e Diversità, supported by Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso and active citizenship organizations ( ActionAid, Caritas Italiana, Cittadinanzattiva, Dedalus Cooperativa sociale, Fondazione di Comunità di Messina, Legambiente, Uisp) and lead by Fabrizio Barca. The forum …

Deep and Proximate Determinants of the World Income Distribution

2019-10-23

Angela Parenti and Davide Fiaschi published a new paper on economic inequality, co-authored with Mario Lavezzi (Uni Palermo). The paper has been published by the Review of Income and Wealth and is available here. Abstract This paper studies the deep …