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
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Global Economy’s Stubborn Reality: Plenty of Work, Not Enough Pay
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
IMF: higher taxes for rich will cut inequality without hitting growth
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 […]
Il futuro dei gruppi industriali europei
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
Déjà Voodoo
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
A Better Way to Make Economic Forecasts
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 […]
Anche l’Onu chiede un New Deal globale
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
Un DEF senza obiettivi strutturali
I provvedimenti contenuti nella nota di aggiornamento del Def restano nel solco delle politiche fino ad oggi adottate che mal si conciliano con la crisi di struttura che attraversa il Paese
How to rethink capitalism
Western capitalism came close to collapsing in 2007/2008, and has still not recovered. And the vast majority of economists had not understood what was happening. The recently released book “Rethinking Capitalism” takes a deeper look at both failures www.isigrowth.eu
How loopholes allowed pro-Brexit campaign to win
A string of emails released under Freedom of Information laws to WhatDoTheyKnow and seen by openDemocracy demonstrate the full scale of the loophole in Britain’s electoral rules which allowed Grimes and Vote Leave to spend this extraordinary sum – and the worrying implications it has for British democracy www.opendemocracy.net