Articles & Opinions
  • Budget Hawks Flying Backwards
    Jeff Faux

    Budgets are not goals but rather instruments for achieving goals. Before the government decides how to pay for the future, it first needs to determine what kind of future the country needs.

    12/01/2010
  • The dream of a sustainable economy
    Jesper Jespersen

    In a perspective of sustainability the correct answer is to increase green taxes and a ceiling on the material consumption to secure that the distribution of environmental impacts is reasonably fair.

    05/06/2010
  • Obama’s unaccomplished Health Care reform
    Antonio Lettieri

    The reform addresses the first side of the triangle of the crisis, insofar as the number of uninsured will be drastically reduced, but the problems of inequality before the illness and of costs remain away from a solution. 

    09/04/2010
  • Las paradojas de la crisis (una mirada desde España)
    Antonio Baylos

    La crisis suscita ciertas paradojas que deben ser resueltas principalmente por el movimiento sindical. El sindicato no puede renunciar a disputar la hegemonía ideológica del campo neoconservador para afirmar su propia narrativa de la crisis y sus propios valores .                                              
     

    07/04/2010
  • Capital flows to emerging economies
    Marcello Colitti

    An Institute of International Finance Research Note, indicates a strong increase of investments in the emerging countries.

    07/05/2010
  • A (true) European currency Fund is a necessity
    Jesper Jespersen

    The crisis calls for counter policies all of Europe. There would be for many years ahead some countries with structural deficits (‘catching up’ countries) and countries with a structural surplus (the more mature economies). It is difficult to understand that a European Monetary Fund was not established contemporary with the EMU.

    07/05/2010
  • L'impossibile germanizzazione dell'Europa
    Ruggero Paladini

    Nell'ultimo decennio le economie dei Piigs (Portogallo, Italia, Irlanda, Grecia, Spagna) hanno avuto andamenti molto diversi: gli ultimi tre sono cresciuti a un ritmo doppio della media europea. Il modello tedesco non può essere quello dell'intera Unione europea.

    09/04/2010
  • ¿ES LA REFORMA LABORAL LA SOLUCIÓN A LA CRISIS?
    Joaquín Aparicio Tovar

    Para algunos de los que afirman que estamos ante una crisis financiera el origen lo ponen en una mera deficiencia de las reglas. Parece mucho más correcto identificar el origen de la crisis con la desigualdad creciente que desde la crisis de los años setenta del siglo pasado se ha ido instalando en todos los países del mundo, incluidos los Estados Unidos y Europa. 

    14/01/2010
  • Euroland is being crucified upon its cross of gold
    Thomas Palley

    The institutional arrangements behind the euro have distorted the monetary - fiscal balance, creating deflationary central bank dominance.Its design embeds neo-liberal monetary theory which in many regards rests on the same economic principles as the gold standard.

    07/04/2010
  • A powerful and cheap stimulus *
    Barry Bluestone
    06/02/2010
  • The Financial Crisis One Year on
    Jayati Ghosh

    Was the emergency  response succesful? And have policy makers learned the important lessons from the crisis? One of the worst consequences of the flawed manner of dealing with the crisis is that moral hazard is now more pronounced than ever.

     

    13/01/2010
  • L’Unione europea fra neoliberismo e dumping sociale
    Massimo Roccella

    Commissione europea e Corte di Giustizia si muovono in direzione di un mercato del lavoro sempre più libealizzato, disarticolando le garanzie del "modello sociale europeo"

    23/02/2010
  • Una nuova politica petrolifera francese?
    Marcello Colitti

    Un Rapporto del governo francese analizza la volatilità del prezzo del petrolio e propone la definizione di una nuova strategia europea basata su una più forte cooperazione con i paesi del Sud

    09/04/2010