Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Fabio Masini
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Title: Scarsità di risorse e limiti dello sviluppo: il punto di vista di Epicarmo Corbino 
(Resource scarcity and the limits to growth: the point of view of Epicarmo Corbino) 
Abstract: Corbino was an acute observer of economic and political events and a clever historian of the Italian
(and not only) economy. But he was mainly an intellectual with a strong capacity to single out the
most relevant changes in economic theory and policy. For these reasons he publishes in 1974 a pioneering
volume on Energy, Economics and Ecology where he stresses the importance of a change in the
cultural, theoretical and policy paradigm in governing natural resources and energy. The aim of the
essay is to enquire into the intellectual foundations and the scientific milieu in which the book was
written, illustrating some of its most relevant insights.
Classification-JEL: A11, B20, B31, O13
Keywords: Corbino; ecology; energy; economic methodology; public policies; sustainable development (Corbino; ecologia; energia; metodologia economica; politiche pubbliche; sviluppo
sostenibile)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 209-220 
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
Year: 2012
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201206302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:20:y:2012:2:14:p:209-220