July - August 2012 / In this Issue

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The last European Summit has left things as they were, except worsen the situation in Spain, which was imposed new austerity measures, while for Italy, the apparent success of Monti proved insubstantial (Nuti), in the middle of self-inflicting austerity and "structural reforms” (Paladini,Lettieri and Baylos). Instead, an industrial policy, that could raise investment, growth and employment remains out from the horizon (Colitti).Simon Glendinning starts from Kant to trace a European Union’s possible future.
Dean Baker is back with concrete examples of a tax on financial transactions; Harold Meyerson on American unions; John Weeks on the paradoxes of neo-conservative economic doctrines; Tarso Genro on the challenges coming for the left from the crisis.

In the Papers, Lettieri on the instrumental use of youth unemployment to cover reactionary policies; Jeff Faux on the contradictions of American politics and the conclusions of the Spanish “Congreso Trabajo, economia y sociedad".

Articles

Mario Nuti
The Monti-Merkel Double Act [2]

La commedia fra Monti e la Merkel [3]

Ruggero Paladini
La lingua biforcuta della "Spending review" [4]

Simon Glendinning
From Immanuel Kant to a European federation of States [5]
Dean Baker

A Wall Street Gambling Tax: The Remedy to Inequality [6]
Marcello Colitti

Fear is a bad Advisor [7]

E se si tornasse all'industria? [8]
Antonio Baylos

Con el acqua al cuello [9]
Antonio Lettieri

European and US Health Care Model [10]

Europa-Usa, Modelli di welfare tra le due sponde [11]

John Weeks
What is economics? Parable for our time [12]
Tarso Genro
A crise atual e o futuro da democracia como ideia socialista [13]
Harold Meyerson

Post-New Deal America Needs Unions [14]

Papers

I giovani come alibi di una politlica di destra [15]
Antonio Lettieri
The Hunger Games Economy [16]

Jeff Faux
Por una salida social a la crisis [17]

Congreso Trabajo, economia y sociedad
Statement on the Monetary Policy [18]

James Galbraith

Views

*Madrid Austerity; Can We Call it Class War Yet? [19] *Europe’s Morass, America’s Fiscal Cliff [20];

*Reclaiming Europa and the uncontrolled power of business [21]