New Releases by Daniele Fabbri

Cooper lavora come corriere per Mercuryo, titanica multinazionale del commercio online, ma non è un corriere qualsiasi. Nessuno sa, infatti, che l’azienda possiede una tecnologia segreta capace di far viaggiare nel tempo! Un giorno però, durante una normale giornata di lavoro, avviene un piccolo contrattempo, che nel caso di spedizioni ordinarie comporterebbe solo un ritardo nella consegna, ma nel caso di Cooper rischia di bloccarlo nel passato! Una commedia fantascientifica beffarda e pirotecnica che, muovendosi fra futuro e passato, diventa una puntuale riflessione sul presente.

First published in 1999, the main feature of this book is its multidisciplinary nature, since the book focuses on the complexity of spatial/ economic networks from several methodological points of view. For this purpose both theoretical and empirical works have been included. The aim of the book is to provide an updated and fresh look at the mentioned issue with innovative and creative papers coming from leading experts belonging to different disciplines. Therefore the book could be considered as an expert and critical guide - through different methodological approaches - to the topic of (complex) networks in the space-economy. All the contributions provide innovative and in some cases provocative elements to the understanding of networks and development over space.

"Il timido anticristo" è un fumetto basato sull’omonimo spettacolo teatrale di Daniele Fabbri. Racconta la storia di Daniele, trentenne cresciuto in una famiglia cattolica, distaccatosi dalla fede in tarda adolescenza. Una scelta che lo costringe a confrontarsi con la famiglia, gli amici e il suo contesto sociale, evidenziando come, al di là del conflitto tra fede e razionalità, il vero terreno di scontro è quello delle emozioni. “Perché,” come dichiarano i due autori, “il vero potere della religione non è solo quello ecclesiastico, ma è l’influenza che il dogma ha sulla nostra intima moralità, sulle nostre convinzioni, sul nostro personale discernimento tra cosa è bene e cosa è male.”

"A child goes on an adventure to the Florida Everglades, discovering what the climate is like and encountering many animals and plants that live in wetlands. Includes world map of wetlands and glossary"--

We adopt amulti-country setup to showthat years of schooling have a causal protective effect on the body mass index of females living in nine European countries. No such effect is found for males. The protective effect for European females is not negligible but is smaller than one recently found for the United States and stronger among overweight females. We discuss possible mechanisms justifying both the protective role of education and the gender difference in this role. We argue that the effects of additional schooling on income, the probability of employment, and the frequency of vigorous physical activities, both on and off the job, may help explain our results.

In this paper we use data coming from the new Italian Survey on Health Aging and Wealth (SHAW) to analyse physician services utilization in Italy explicitly acknowledging the existence of two different classes of providers: public and private. We consider visits by a specialist physician as the measure of individual services utilization. In particular we assess the relative importance of variables like income, education, private insurance and supply characteristics as determinants of the utilization of such services, while controlling for individual health and need. We do that by estimating some alternative count data regression models of which we discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages and the entailed different interpretation of the results.