In this Issue

Articles: Antonio Lettieri and Ruggero Paladini on the origins of the Franco-German partnership and the eurozome's crisis. Antonio Baylos on the Spanish-Catalan quagmire. Jeff Faux on the US and the immigration crisis. Umberto Romagnoli remembers Bruno Trentin, former General Secretary of CGIL Dean Baker about Republican's Tax Reform.  Robert Reich on the Democrats' alternative.  Seifert and Toralf Pusch on Labor market and mini-jobs in Germany. 

In the Papers, Umberto Romagnoli and the history of the Italian Labor Law. Thomas Palley on the Keynes' General theory 80 years after. Eileen Appelbaum on the increase of inequality in the US. Nuti on the hypothesis of secular stagnation. 

In the News: The German political crisis; The debacle of the leftwing Parties in Europe; A new theory about the civilization development., 

Articles & Opinions

• Antonio Lettieri
  The Ionesco Euro
  L’Euro di Ionesco
• Jeff Faux
  A Short History of American Empire
   
• Carlo Clericetti
  Pierre Moscovici e il disavanzo del tre per cento
   
• Gian Guido Balandi, Milivoje Ametovic
  Il diritto al lavoro
   
• Dean Baker
  The Corporate Tax Cut Bonanza
   
• Umberto Romagnoli
  Leyendo los diarios de Bruno Trentin
  I diari di Trentin tra autobiografia e sindacato
• Eileen Appelbaum
  GOP won't be able to sell its tax bill to the public
   
• CCOO
  Documento - La precariedad del trabajo en España

   Papers

• "Ragionevoli utopie". Cultura giuridica del lavoro e cittadinanza sociale Intervista a Umberto Romagnoli
  Giovanni Cazzetta
   
• The General Theory at 80. Reflexions on the enduring relevance Keynes' Economics
  Thomas Palley
   
• What's Behind the Increase in Inequality?
  Eileen Appelbaum*
   
• Sull’ipotesi del ristagno secolare *
  D.Mario Nuti
  
  Views  
• The Guardian view on Germany’s political crisis: the start of the post-Merkel era?
  The Guardian
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• Why a leading political theorist thinks civilization is overrated
  Sean Illing V0X
   
• Why the left loses: Explaining the decline of center-left parties
  Rob Manwaring and Paul Kennedy LSE-EUIROPP
   
• How Trump Could Rebuild America
  Laura Tyson, Lenny Mendonca  Project Syndicate 
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•  Editor:  Antonio Lettieri, Co-Editor, Antonio Grau Baylos 
• Editorial Board Margarita Barañano; Ramón Baeza; Barry Bluestone; Carlo Clericetti;
  eff Faux; Jacques Freyssinet; Tarso Genro; Stuart Holland; Jesper Jespersen; Elvira S. Llopis; Mario Nuti; Ruggero Paladini; Thomas Palley; Guido Rey; Umberto Romagnoli;
  Mario Rusciano