Il ruolo degli stock economici, ambientali, sociali e valoriali per il benessere delle comunità: un modello sistemico di indirizzo per le politiche locali
Author(s)
Blasi, Emanuele
Date Issued
January 10, 2011
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
This research enters in the socio-economic studies with a territorial perspective, and it has the
objective to develop a methodology capable of enriching the study phase of preliminary design and
analysis of political and economic interventions aimed at improving the welfare population. The
interest in such an argument stems from the fact that in recent times the word “welfare” has
assumed a central role in the political and economic debate.
The theoretical frame of reference is the stock and flows model (S&F), proposed by Mauro
Bonaiuti, an adaptation of the funds and flows model with which Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen has
interpreted the theory of production in a bio-economic key. The S&F model, using the theory of
complex systems, describes in detail the characteristics of the funds, renamed stocks, and of the
flows involved in the systems of production and consumption. The unique setting of an analysis
based on the S&F is to assess how the structural features related to the environmental, social and
economic sphere (stock) are able to transform physical entities, matter and energy (input flows), in
welfare and waste (output streams). The model assumes that the flows of goods and services are not
able to produce any well, but that is the set of stocks and flows, and especially their interaction, that
gives rise to the enjoyment of life and wellbeing of the individual community.
The intent of this work, following the specific approach of local economy, is to conduct an initial
review of the stocks and flows model in order to verify how the economic, environmental, social
and value characteristics of a territorial system are able to contribute to the generation of wealth for
the local community. From this approach arises the strongly multi-disciplinary feature of the
analysis that, in addition to brand itself as an economic-policy research, makes use of contributions
from disciplines such as sociology and psychology.
The research proposes a methodology able to identify tools and procedures adapted to detect
different levels of eudaimonia produced by a local economic system and then put them in
connection with the allocations of the different structures of production and consumption (stock).
The proposed methodology has been tested and validated with an empirical application that, for
cognitive and interpretive reasons, has been carried out in the local employment systems of the
province of Viterbo.
The results of the empirical analysis has confirmed the validity of the theoretical model, the
correctness of the methodology and at the same time offered a number of new ideas for further
research on the future design of economic policy measures designed to improve long-term welfare
in local communities.
Additional information
Dottorato di ricerca in Economia e territorio
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