SONO MOLTO INTERESSATO IN QUANTO FORSE IN FUTURO FARO' ANCHE DELLA RICERCA A RIGUARDO, MA PER IL MOMENTO CIO' CHE DESIDEREI RICEVERE SONO SOLTANTO PARERI, SI' MOTIVATI, MA NON FORMALIZZATI IN MODELLI, INSOMMA UN DIALOGO APERTO A CHIUNQUE, NON NECESSARIAMENTE STUDIOSO DEL SETTORE. SPERO TROVIATE L'ARGOMENTO INTERESSANTE E CERCHERO' DI RISPONDERE AI COMMENTI E STIMOLARE GLI INTERESSATI.
ASPETTO CON ANSIA UN VOSTRO INTERVENTO SU:
DEMOCRAZIA SEMPRE E COMUNQUE O UN DITTATORE CHE AGISCA NELL'ESCLUSIVO INTERESSE DEI CITTADINI??
I'd like to introduce a quote to this theme, written by one of my lecturers at UCC (University College of Cork), Robbie Butler (DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, NUI, CORK EC 3115: Innovation, Competitiveness & Growth), quote that summarizes an economical paper of Mancur Olson ("Dictatorship, Democracy and Development", The American Political Science Review, vol 87, Sep 1993):
"Whenever an autocrat expects a brief tenure, it pays him to confiscate those assets whose tax yield over his tenure is less than their total value. This incentive plus the inherent uncertainty of succession in dictatorships imply that autocracies will rarely have good economic performance for more than a generation. The conditions necessary for a lasting democracy are the same necessary for the security of property and contract rights that generates economic growth."
