The withdrawal of Tom Marino’s nomination as national drug czar is a reminder of the power of whistle-blowing and aggressive investigative reporting, while the fact that he was named in the first place is a reminder of the hollowness of the Trump’s Administration’s commitments to draining the swamp and to seriously addressing the opioid epidemic […]
I referendum di Lombardia e Veneto richiamano alcune riflessioni di politica economica e fiscale, e su come la politica ha risposto ai problemi che la società e i cittadini affrontano
Il voto parlamentare sulla Banca d’Italia promosso dal Pd ha scatenato una bufera: ma il Parlamento ha tutto il diritto di pronunciarsi su qualsiasi problema.
L’Italia è tecnicamente uscita dalla recessione. Eppure i dati macroeconomici possono celare criticità strutturali in grado di minare le prospettive future della nostra economia
In the three-plus decades since Ola Karlsson began painting houses and offices for a living, he has seen oil wealth transform the Norwegian economy. He has participated in a construction boom that has refashioned Oslo, the capital. He has watched the rent climb at his apartment in the center of the city www.nytimes.com
Higher income tax rates for the rich would help reduce inequality without having an adverse impact on growth, the International Monetary Fund has said. The Washington-based IMF used its influential half-yearly fiscal monitor to demolish the argument that economic growth would suffer if governments in advanced Western countries forced the top 1% of earners to […]
L’integrazione tra le imprese di diversi paesi europei sarebbe indispensabile per cercare di difendere qualche posizione in un mondo sempre più dominato da Cina e Stati Uniti. Ma il recente caso della STX mostra chiaramente quanto sia difficile la partita
A Trump administration staffed by plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves. But the Republicans’ proposed tax reform is a bigger gift to corporations and the ultra-rich than most had anticipated www.project-syndicate.org
Economists are famously bad at predicting growth. A new technique might help them get a little better. When assessing a country’s potential to prosper, economists typically look at aggregate measures such as education, investment or national debt. This hasn’t worked particularly well: China’s economy, for example, has kept growing at a fast pace even though […]
Pubblicato il Rapporto Unctad 2017 su commercio e sviluppo. Una dura requisitoria contro le politiche di austerity e le risposte nazionaliste. E la proposta di un ambizioso New Deal globale per un’economia inclusiva e sostenibile