Messianismo e política em Giorgio Agamben

Ensayos sobre POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA

During a time of rising world interest rates, the central bank of a small open economy may be motivated to increase its own interest rate to keep from suffering a destabilizing outflow of capital and depreciation in the exchange rate. Empirically, this paper shows that this is especially true for a small open economy with a current account deficit, which relies on foreign capital inflows to fin...

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio

In this paper we propose a methodology for the estimation of Customer Satisfaction (CS) conceived as a Latent variable (LV) specified in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) structural model. The current proposal puts forward: the approaches of structural equations based on LISREL (Joreskog, 1978), since it involves the dual problem of indeterminacy of the latent scores and the norma...

Giorgio Pochetti

Cooperation ∗ Giorgio Gallo

After a discussion on the relevance of ethics in Operations Research, two approaches to the ethical discourse, one based on rules and the other based on principles and values, are analyzed. Then, two ethical principles, which can help O.R. researchers and practitioners in their activity are discussed in some detail. The first is the “responsibility principle”, proposed in a more general context...

Paracoccidioidomicose em crianças e adolescentes

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an important systemic mycosis; it is restricted to Latin America, and Brazil is the most affected country. Children and adolescents account for approximately 5 to 10% of all cases with the acute form of the disease, which afflicts the mononuclear phagocytic system, in particular, lymph nodes and abdominal organs. Involvement of bones and joints has been observed ...