Mi chiamo Speroni, mio nonno era mugnaio sull’Olona, però…
About the risk of secession in Italy, my family name, the hurried way in which people read articles on the screen…
Se il Belgio si divide l’Italia esplode
Italy like Belgium? In a recent comment on the Belgian crisis, The Economist wrote: “Sometimes it is right for a country to recognize that a job is done”. States are changing all over Europe, and secessions are not necessarily traumatic as they used to be. See Czechoslovakia. In Italy the North and the South are…
Grillo apre la terza fase della comunicazione politica
There are four reasons behind Beppe Grillo’s V Day success, (“where V stands for a very rude Italian expletive”, explains the International Herald Tribune). Grillo is a very talented comedian; his proposals are very simple (probably too simple); people in Italy are really looking for an alternative to the actual political class; and he knows…
La domanda di Libero Grassi
In a public debate in Palermo, Libero Grassi, the entrepreneur who was later killed by Mafia, asked me if my journalism was more similar to playing tennis or ping pong. His question could now be put to his colleagues, who proclaim that the ones who pay the “pizzo” will be expelled from Confindustria.
La ricchezza nell’era wikinomics
Wikinomics, the new system to which everybody contributes freely through internet, puts under discussion some of our basic economic concepts. The gross domestic product (Gdp), for example, is based on the idea of measuring “wealth”. But what is wealth if an important part of the economy develops without payments and without prices?