At the origin of the notion of “creative goods” in economics: Scitovsky and Hawtrey Antonio Bariletti and Eleonora Sanfilippo October, 2015 Abstract: The notion of “creativity” has assumed a growing importance in the recent economic literature on happiness, motivations and …

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Disappointment and Public action: Albert Hirschman’s ways of complicating economic theory Marina Bianchi April, 2015 Abstract: In his essay Against Parsimony (1985), Hirschman argued in favor of “complicating” rather that simplifying economic theory. This paper focuses on two of the …

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