Abstract

Compared to its traditional reliance on the exclusive action of market forces, the continuous re-orientation of the economy has laid the foundations for a different classification of players and their respective roles within and beyond national borders. In this work the Authors propose a synoptic presentation of three points of view belonging to different disciplinary fields (applied economics, philosophy and law), the aim of this multidisciplinary approach is to provide a complete picture of the general factors that brought many European countries (with focus toward Italy) to endow sophisticated juridical instruments to face the challenges of an overwhelming contemporaneity as opposed to the traditional role of the state (c.d. golden power).