The aim of this article is twofold. First, we are interested in analysing the long-term dynamics of science and technology at country level to investigate the roots of countries innovative success and to ascertain the historical origins of the so-called “European Paradox”. Secondly, we carry out a taxonomic exercise to empirically verify the existence of […]
In this work we shall attempt an excursus across fundamentally different streams of modern interpretations of the “ primitive entities” constituting the social fabrics of economic systems. Behind each specific interpretative story, there is a set of ceteris paribus assumptions and also some fictitious tale on a ‘once upon a time’ reconstruction of the theoretical […]
