The idea of a circular economy, first discussed by Kenneth Boulding in the 1960s and '70 s
and reintroduced by environmental economists David Pearce and R. Kerry Turner in 1990 …

Can resilience be a relevant concept for industrial policy? Resilience is usually described as
the ability of a socioeconomic system to recover from unexpected shocks. While this concept …

After many years of outstanding GDP growth and structural changes, China is now facing an
economic slowdown. This paper aims to analyse the effects of this slowdown on individual …

The paper builds on the classical understanding of the interplay between material processes
and political conflicts, but generalises it in several key respects. This approach does not …

This paper highlights the relevance of connectivity and its architecture as a general
conceptual framework which underlies and integrates the concepts of network vulnerability …

Selective industrial policies have been increasingly used by governments to achieve
desired normative goals. However, they have been revealed to be complex and vulnerable …

Economic complexity highlights the relationship between interdependence (a positional
characteristic of elements belonging to a given network or structure) and connectivity (a …

Complex structures are arrangements of elements such that certain properties of the whole
cannot be derived from properties of individual elements nor from properties of interaction …

It is well-known that small states, because of their size, tend to be less endowed with natural
resources than big ones. This makes small states vulnerable and raises the question if …

This work investigates the impacts of the 2012 Emilia-Romagna earthquake and looks at the
capacity of the regional economic system to adapt to the shock generated by the seismic …