
Happiness for the Dismal Science
1. It is striking that economists today play the leading role in interdisciplinary studies on happiness. In the 20th

THE WORLD OF TRUMP PEOPLE (Written Before the Presidential Elections) [Winner ot the Treccani Web Prize]
1. Some people say that Donald Trump, both as a personality and as regards his political positions, is nothing really

Ethics, Wonder and the Real in Wittgenstein*
Wittgenstein explicitly addressed ethics above all in his first stage of thought—in the Tractatus, in his Notebooks of 1914-16, and in his Lecture on

Book Review of Georg Simmel’s “Fashion”
1. In the 20th century, much was written on fashion, yet systematic, general theories on fashion are few. The best

The Foucault Illusion
In Italy, we often use the Latin expression errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum, “to err is human; to persist is

THE GLOBAL VILLAGE AND ITS DISCONTENTS. GLOBALIZATION AND NEED FOR DIFFERENCE*
It is well known that modern Truth–that being, of course, scientific truth–speaks English. Sixty-two per cent of Nobel Prize winners