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The death of neoliberalism and the crisis in western politics

After almost nine years, we are finally beginning to reap the political whirlwind of the financial crisis. But how did neoliberalism manage to survive virtually unscathed for so long? Although it failed the test of the real world, bequeathing the worst economic disaster for seven decades, politically and intellectually it remained the only show in […]

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Welfare, la summer school di Sbilanciamoci

Per il terzo anno consecutivo, riaprono le porte della Scuola Estiva “L’economia come è e come può cambiare” organizzata dall’Università di Urbino Carlo Bo con Sbilanciamoci!, dal 5 al 9 settembre 2016 ad Urbino. Cinque giorni di approfondimento, dedicati al welfare

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Economics in a Different Key

In 1965, Luigi Pasinetti, whom INET is delighted to interview here, produced a decisive counterexample arguing that the Neoclassical approach to analyzing production needed to be abandoned in favor of something much closer in spirit to Classical Economics. www.nakedcapitalism.com

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A conversation with Jürgen Habermas about Brexit

The British had a liberal view of the EU as a free trade area and this was expressed in a policy of enlarging the EU without any simultaneous deepening of co-operation. No Schengen, no euro. The exclusively instrumental attitude of the political elite towards the EU was reflected in the campaign of the Remain camp […]

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Rediscovering the Importance of functional distribution

Nowadays, both economists and policy makers have rediscovered the importance of income distribution. In a number of recent papers, even the IMF has warned about the risks stemming from increasing inequalities but the recommendations inferred from its standard theoretical approach do not imply any breakthrough in the policy agenda www.socialeurope.eu

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#FilieraSporca, il rapporto 2016

Un viaggio per indagare le cause del caporalato nell’anno che ha fatto registrare oltre dieci morti nei campi e centinaia di migliaia di braccianti, stranieri e italiani, sfruttati per la raccolta dell’ortofrutta. Lavoro schiavile che passa anche per l’utilizzo di migranti richiedenti asilo, come quelli del Cara di Mineo