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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatisation of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterised an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatisation process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatisation of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatisation and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology, and political science.

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0429797265

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Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy

Points, Distances, Determinations

By: Luca Guzzardi

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Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy

Points, Distances, Determinations

By: Luca Guzzardi

Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich’s theory within its historical context. It explains the genesis and theoretical as well as epistemological underpinnings in light of the Jesuit tradition to which Boscovich belonged, and contrasts his ideas with those of Newton, Leibniz, and their legacy. Finally, it debates crucial issues in early-modern physical science such as the concept of force, the particle-like structure of matter, the idea of material points and the notion of continuity, and shares novel insights on Boscovich’s alleged influence on later developments in physics. With its attempt to reduce all natural forces to one single law, Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy, published in 1758, left a lasting impression on scientists and philosophers of every age regarding the fundamental unity of physical phenomena. The theory argues that every pair of material points is subject to one mutual force — and always the same force — which is their propensity to be mutually attracted or repelled, depending on their distance from one another. Furthermore, the action of this unique force is visualized through a famous diagram that fascinated generations of scientists. But his understanding of key terms of the theory — such as the notion of force involved and the very idea of a material point — is only ostensibly similar to our current conceptual framework. Indeed, it needs to be clarified within the plurality of contexts in which it has emerged rather than being considered in view of later developments. The book is recommended for scholars and students interested in the ideas of the early modern period, especially historians and philosophers of science, mathematicians and physicists with an interest in the history of the discipline, and experts on Jesuit science and philosophy.

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3030520935

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

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A Gramscian Analysis

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A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

The globally spreading privatization wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatization of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterized an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci's theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatization process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatization of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatization and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology and political science"--

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

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