Il declino della produttivita' e della competitivita' dell'Italia ha radici lontane, che con l'Euro si sono acuite ma di cui l'Euro non tiene responsabilità. Esse sono radicate in fattori strutturali, dal lato della domanda, della distribuzione e dell'innovazione, che hanno posto in crisi la...

The Jobs Act of Matteo Renzi's Italian Government has been announced as urgent structural reform requested by Europe to make the extremely rigid Italian labour market more flexible, in order to contrast the dualism among protected workers and those without protections at all, and to guarantee...

In this paper we discuss and arise several critics to the National Agreement signed on the 21st November 2012 by trade unions (except the larger Italian trade unions CGIL) and employers associations on productivity and competitiveness, called "Linee programmatiche per la crescita della...

A Social pact among Producers is a chimera. Invoked by many to stop the decline of the Italian economy during the last two decades, it finds the main saboteurs in the national politics and in the promoters of the «expansionary austerity» in Europe. Economists put forward various proposals,...