Articles & Opinions
  • Il lupo di oggi e le tigri di domani
    Heiner Flassbeck

    Il deficit di bilancio può essere un grosso problema, ma è lo squilibrio esterno che potrebbe portare alla dissoluzione dell’UEM se forte azione correttiva non è presa al più presto

    04/04/2010
  • Will we have a French Oil Initiative?
    Marcello Colitti

    A report by the French Government analyses the volatility of the oil  price and proposes the definition of an effective European oil strategy along with a stronger cooperation  of Europe with the Southern Countries

    29/03/2010
  • Cry Wolf but do not ignore Tomorrow's Tigers
    Heiner Flassbeck

    The budget deficits may be a big problem but it is the external imbalance that could lead to dissolution of the EMU if strong corrective action is not taken soon.

    29/03/2010
  • A fake Greek tragedy and the EMU future
    Antonio Lettieri

    Why Greece shouldn’t be helped in the current financial difficulties? The budget falsification issue and the alleged legal impediment don't provide a convincing justification. The Spain could be the next target of the financial market. The problem arises of EMU policy inconsistency and its permanent deflationist inclination.

    25/02/2010
  • La solitudine del lavoro
    Umberto Romagnoli

    L'attuale crisi del lavoro è diversa dalle precedenti perché enfatizza la subalternità del diritto del lavoro al punto di metterne in gioco la stessa esistenza.

     

     

     

    23/02/2010
  • The Icelandic Saga
    Mario Nuti

    The roots of the Icelandic crisis are in the unrestrained neo-liberal policies followed over the last ten years: the privatisation of the banks, their de-regulation, along with the policies pursued by the Government and the Central Bank

    23/01/2010
  • The enbarrassing (and dangerous) Mr.Berlusconi
    Antonio Lettieri

    The actual 'exceptionality' of the Italian case is not a centre-right government but its identification with the person of Silvio Berlusconi. It has been a mistake, from the very beginning, to underestimate his disruptive vision of politics and of institutions.

    12/01/2010
  • Bajo presion, cuatro millones de parados
    Antonio Baylos

    En España cuatro millones de desempleados, con el consiguiente ascenso de la tasa de paro al 17,36 %, es un dato que pone a toda la sociedad española en una situación de alarma

    26/10/2009
  • Should macroeconomic textbooks be rewritten?
    Jesper Jespersen

    There is one undisputed yet erroneous assumption which pretty well all modern financial theory has built on up to now: that financial markets function so perfectly well that, if only regulations were lifted, markets themselves would find the socially correct price for trading in financial and 'real' assets.

     

    25/09/2009
  • La "flessibilità" ineffciente
    Carlo Clericetti

    Economisti e giuristi che si definiscono "riformsti" non si stancano di tessere l'elogio della flessibilità. Eppure il suo abuso crescente, oltre a pesare sui lavoratori, si rivela dannoso per le imprese e per l'insieme della'economia

    24/02/2010
  • Iceland: A Referendum against Gordon Brown
    Mario Nuti

    After the financial crisis Iceland's voters, almost unanimously, rejected a deal that required hard sacrifices to meet the demands of British and Dutch governments. There are democratic limits to how far ordinary people can be pressured to should through their taxes the financial feilures of bankers.

    14/03/2010
  • La crisis: està produciendo un nuevo orden global?
    Jeff Faux

    Por tres décadas, hasta ahora, las políticas del proceso de integración financiera global han sido determinadas por intereses económicos que se benefician del orden que ha hecho el desastre. Si el sistema que produjola crisis no cambia, no se tiene que ser un gran economista para prever que tendremos crisis otra vez.

    05/02/2010