Nell’Occidente sviluppato il lavoro dipendente e strutturato non è più la realtà nella quale viviamo. La flessibilità sembra destinata a crescere e con essa dovrebbero cambiare i ritmi della società, gli orari delle strutture rigide, gli strumenti di tutela e welfare, l’organizzazione familiare. Il Rapporto McClatchy sul lavoro indipendente www.left.it
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 […]
The reasons why ‘new Europe’, by and large, resists EU quotas runs deeper. But the EU as a whole will have to admit that, in the awkward mixture of hostility and apathy exposed by its referendum, Hungary may be less of an exception than the rule www.independent.co.uk
Politicians have always used cultural tropes in order to build popularity and even hegemony. Right now, however, it seems as if the small symbols are no longer merely semiotic in nature. Matters of nationality and cultural tradition no longer seem like window-dressing: once the state is offering to look after some of us, but not […]
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
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 […]
Dario Guarascio si occupa delle modalità di misurazione dei benefici e costi della prevenzione dei rischi sismici e sintetizza i risultati di uno studio che, basandosi su dati ufficiali, le ha applicate al terremoto del 2009 a l’Aquila. Procedure relativamente semplici come quelle indicate (ed implementate con dati di cui lo Stato dispone) potrebbero condurre […]
There has been renewed interest in economic analysis of the EU budget following the Global Crisis. For each euro paid by an average net (EU member state) contributor, approximately 75 cents return through the EU budget, and 25 cents cross a border. At the margin, the US federal budget is less redistributive in normal times […]
On Sunday, Croats went to the polls in a snap election, returning the ruling nationalist party HDZ as the biggest party, but changing nothing. Just 53% of all Croats voted. With xenophobia and regional tensions on the rise, the EU has to get tough with the new Croatian government – all cultural nods and winks […]
Apple’s indignant response to the European Commission tax ruling has nothing to do with an inability to pay. The company’s cash pile of more than $200 billion could cover the assessment several times over. Instead, it’s something more akin to the attitude attributed to the late New York hotelier Leona Helmsley: only the little people […]