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Mediterraneo oggi

Si apre sabato 29 ottobre l’ottava edizione del Salone dell’Editoria Sociale, promosso tra gli altri dalle edizioni dell’Asino e dalla rivista Lo Straniero. Tre giorni di incontri e dibattiti per riflettere sulle mutazioni sociali, culturali e geopolitiche di un’area che sempre più ci interroga sulle condizioni del nostro tempo, ma che offre anche una speranza […]

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Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today

Inequality has been with us for a long time. Industrial capitalism didn’t reverse it in the nineteenth century, and finance capitalism is not reversing it in the twenty-first. The only thing that can reverse it is political action aimed at changing systems that seem to many people to be simply the way things have to […]

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Reform or Divorce in Europe

To say that the eurozone has not been performing well since the 2008 crisis is an understatement. Its member countries have done more poorly than the European Union countries outside the eurozone, and much more poorly than the United States, which was the epicenter of the crisis www.project-syndicate.org

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Marcello de Cecco (1939-2016)

The Department of Economics and Statistics of Siena University held a day-long conference in memory of Marcello de Cecco on 17 September, which would have been his 77th birthday. By displaying the richness and depth of Marcello’s contributions of a lifetime, the Siena Conference stressed how dependent on his wisdom many of us had become […]