Difficile immaginare due persone più diverse di Tiziano Terzani e Oriana Fallaci. Spesso sostennero tesi diametralmente opposte; dopo l’11 settembre si scontrarono in una polemica diretta. La Fallaci era convinta che l’Occidente sottovalutasse la minaccia del fascismo islamico e per denunciare questo pericolo usò un tono apocalittico e spesso insultante. Terzani, riconoscendo gli errori dell’ideologia…
DettagliThe Report Going for Growth by Oecd, released on Tuesday 7th, includes a Chapter on “alternative measures of well being”. I am sorry that only a short summary of the report is freely available on line, with few references to this chapter, but I will try summarize
A new survey on the household budgets by the Bank of Italy gives food for thought on the evolution of the Italian economy. We were used to think that the Italian regions follow two different patterns: the North, with European standards of living, and the South, the Mezzogiorno, trying to catch up but always far…
DettagliIs 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…
DettagliYears 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
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…
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