December 2014 / In this Issue

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In this issue: What future for Eurozone? The economic crisis and the political
dilemmas: Nuti, Paladini, Lettieri, Clericetti.
Labor reforms in Italy and Spain (Zoppoli, Baylos, Romagnoli). Comments on Piketty's "Capital".
Papers:  U.S.2014 Charts; Germany's economy and wages.
Views: Angela Merkel's life and politics; and other articles.

Articles & Opinions

D.Mario Nuti
This Europe is no use to us
Questa Europa non ci serve

Ruggero Paladini
Juncker’s 300
I 300 di Juncker

Antonio Lettieri
Eurozone at the crossroads – 2015, Year of a Turnround?
Eurozona al bivio - 2015, anno della svolta?

Lorenzo Zoppoli
Lavoro "a tutele crescenti": ma cos’è che cresce?

Carlo Clericetti
A sinistra l'euro diventa un dilemma

Antonio Baylos
Rechazo y reversubilidad del modelo laboral de la crisis en España

Dean Baker James Galbraith Jeff Faux
Midterm elections - Obama's Sweeping Defeat

Papers

U.S. - The Top 10 Charts of 2014
Economic Policy Institute

Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Germany
Thorsten Schulten and Reinhard Bispinck

Inequality and Work in the Second Machine Age
Henning Meyer

L’immaginario perbenista nella giurisprudenza del lavoro
Umberto Romagnoli

Kornai - Shortage versus Surplus Economies *
D.Mario Nuti

Views
The Quiet German - The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel (George Packer);
A Quick Boost for the Economy - a $12 Minimum Wage (James K. Galbraith):
Stop Structural Reforms And Start Public Investment In Europe (Paul De Grauwe)
The Perils of Economic Consensus (Dani Rodrik)

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  • Editor Antonio Lettieri, Co-Editors  Bruno Amoroso, Antonio Grau Baylos

    Editorial Board Margarita Barañano; Ramón Baeza; Barry Bluestone;
    Carlo Clericetti; Marcello Colitti; Jeff Faux; Jacques Freyssinet; Tarso Genro;
    Stuart Holland; Jesper Jespersen; Elvira S. Llopis; Mario Nuti; Ruggero Paladini;
    Thomas Palley; Guido Rey; Umberto Romagnoli; Mario Rusciano; Hartmut Seifert,