Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP) CSIC, Working Paper. 2006-16
Autores:
Vincenzo Pavone
Whilst there is an ever-growing literature on the economic and political aspects of ‘globalization’, at present there are few studies analyzing how intergovernmental organizations have reacted to this phenomenon. This article aims to fill this gap by analyzing the response to globalization of UNESCO, one of the least studied organizations of the UN constellation. Addressing the global orientation of some of the current programs, this article shows how a recent re-evaluation of scientific humanism – the main philosophical framework contributing to the creation of...
Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP) CSIC, Working Paper. 2006-14
Autores:
Vincenzo Pavone
When we come across the word ‘eugenics’ it is impossible to avoid thinking of Hitler’s eugenics and racial project. The latter, however, is hardly representative of eugenics. According to the definition provided by the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, eugenics is ‘a scientific attempt to improve the human gene pool’, which includes not only genetic engineering technologies but also the practice of husbandry, which some scientific utopias proposed to extend to human reproduction already in the seventeenth century. This is the historical background inspiring...
Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP) CSIC, Working Paper. 2006-11
Autores:
Alessandro Gentile
Within the framework of the “knowledge society” and the globalized economy, with the consequent processes of rescaling nation-state and improving of more horizontal modes of governance, many European urban areas carry out activation policies through their capacity to mix productive flows, foreign investments, social characteristics and local economic development. According to this perspective, activation policies have to be interpreted as territorial qualified initiatives that contribute to shape local socio-economic growth. Barcelona Activa is the local...
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