Don’t throw your compass into the sea
12 gennaio 2006 | 18:54 | Senza categoria
Is the Gdp (Gross domestic product) a correct way to measure the progress of a nation? The problem is well known to statisticians and economists, with controversies that you can read in wikipedia and in many papers. Even the United Nations through its agency Undp, has launched a few years ago a new indicator, the Human Development Index, which takes into consideration not only the economic wealth, but also education and life expectancy.
In recent times, the Gdp problem is becoming more and more political and not only statistical. For many reasons: Leggi tutto…
There are bad profits but also good profits
7 gennaio 2006 | 17:31 | Senza categoria
Years ago, I told Pietro, my eldest son, that we could write a book together, discussing our different ideas. He set aside the idea as uninteresting, but Leggi tutto…
The ambition to monitor the future
6 gennaio 2006 | 10:29 | Senza categoria
As a journalist, I spent most of my professional life writing, mainly about economics, statistics and their political implications. I started to have a blog in Italian one year ago, on the political website Terza Repubblica, but I realized that the only way to start a discussion on the topics which interest me is to write in English Leggi tutto…
