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In this issue: Piketty's Capital (Paladini,Rowthorn, Baker, Faux, Palley,Galbraith),
Austerity and structural reforms in the Eurozone (Lettieri, Romagnoli, Baylos, Fried, Clericetti, Moreno).
Colitti on Middle Est quagmare; Nuti on Kornai

Articles & Opinions

Ruggero Paladini
Distribution in XXI century according to Piketty [2]
Il XXI° secolo ci riporterà al XIX°? Qualche considerazione su Piketty [3]
Marcello Colitti
Middle East - “When in a quagmire, don’t sully your boots, fly over it” * [4]
Medio Oriente - "Davanti a una palude non sporcarti le scarpe, volaci sopra" * [5]
Antonio Lettieri
Renzi's firing license [6]
Le maschere dell'articolo 18 [7]
Umberto Romagnoli
Il "modello spagnolo" della fine del contratto di lavoro [8]
Las paradojas de la reforma laboral española [9]
Carlo Clericetti
Matteo Renzi - Più Rajoy che Thatcher [10]
Michel Fried
Le faux choix entre la politique de l'offre et de la demande * [11]
Antonio Baylos
El desempleo es fundamentalmente un problema político [12]
Juan Moreno
Siete apellidos vascos [13]
D. Mario Nuti
Kornai Shortage versus Surplus Economies * [14]
Jeff Faux.
Thomas Piketty Undermines the Hallowed Tenets of the Capitalist Catechism [15]
Thomas Palley
The accidental controversialist: deeper reflections on Thomas Piketty’s “Capital” [16]
Ruggero Paladini
Also spracht Draghi [17]
Cosa ha veramente detto Draghi [18]
Antonio Lettieri
Draghi and the unveiled oracle [19]
Draghi e l’oracolo svelato [20]
Mario D. Nuti
Stuck In Transition [21]

Papers

Bobert Rowthorn
Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century - A Critique [22]

Dean Baker and David Rosnick
Stimulus and Fiscal Consolidation:The Evidence and Implications [23]

Brady Meixell and Ross Eisenbrey
An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year [24]

Thomas Palley
The theory of global imbalances: mainstream economics vs. structural Keynesianism [25]

Views

Dean Baker; James K. Galbraith; Paul De Grauwe; Jared Bernstein; Dani Rodrik; Charles Wyplosz
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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; Oscar Ermida; Jeff Faux; Jacques Freyssinet; Tarso Genro; Jayati Ghosh; Guillermo Gianibelli; Stuart Holland; David Howell; Jesper Jespersen; Elvira S. Llopis; Mario Nuti; Ruggero Paladini; Thomas Palley; Guido Rey; Umberto Romagnoli; Mario Rusciano; Herman Schmid; Hartmut Seifertio Rusciano; Herman Schmid; Hartmut Seifert