This paper presents an introductory overview of the main issues that the digitalisation of
industrial enterprises known as Industry 4.0 raises for social sciences. First, it will show that …

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes,
but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consisting of the public and private …

At the firm level, financialization entails an emphasis on short‐term financial performance
and increased engagement of non‐financial firms in financial activities. Advancing …

This volume, born from the collaboration of thirty-four scholars and trade union
representatives, has a dual purpose. Firstly, to propose the analysis and theses on the …

This paper aims at analysing the causes and effects of increasing financial accumulation by
Italian firms, within a radical Institutional theoretical framework. It will be argued that …

This article investigates the financialization of housing in Italy. The evolution of the
regulatory framework for credit had a key role to explain the financialization of households …

La crisi economico-finanziaria del 2007 ha dato enfasi al ruolo della dimensione individuale
nei processi di finanziarizzazione dell'economia (Hall, 2012). Da un lato, la letteratura ha …

Il volume si inserisce sul dibattito relativo all'innalzamento dell'età media delle forze lavoro,
presentando i risultati di una recente indagine campionaria sulle piccole e medie imprese …

The goal of this paper is to provide both a theoretical and an empirical contribution to the
debate concerning the relationship between the financialization process of the economy and …

The article introduces and discusses the notions of financialization of welfare and wellbeing.
Drawing on international sociological literature including theoretical and empirical works, it …