November - December 2017 - In this Issue.

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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 [1]
L’Euro di Ionesco [2]
Jeff Faux
A Short History of American Empire [3]
Carlo Clericetti
Pierre Moscovici e il disavanzo del tre per cento [4]
Gian Guido Balandi, Milivoje Ametovic
Il diritto al lavoro [5]
Dean Baker
The Corporate Tax Cut Bonanza [6]
Umberto Romagnoli
Leyendo los diarios de Bruno Trentin [7]
I diari di Trentin tra autobiografia e sindacato [8]
Eileen Appelbaum
GOP won't be able to sell its tax bill to the public [9]
CCOO
Documento - La precariedad del trabajo en España [10]

Papers

"Ragionevoli utopie". Cultura giuridica del lavoro e cittadinanza sociale Intervista a Umberto Romagnoli [11]
Giovanni Cazzetta
The General Theory at 80. Reflexions on the enduring relevance Keynes' Economics [12]
Thomas Palley
What's Behind the Increase in Inequality? [13]
Eileen Appelbaum*
Sull’ipotesi del ristagno secolare * [14]
D.Mario Nuti

Views
The Guardian view on Germany’s political crisis: the start of the post-Merkel era? [15]
The Guardian
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Why a leading political theorist thinks civilization is overrated [16]
Sean Illing V0X
Why the left loses: Explaining the decline of center-left parties [17]
Rob Manwaring and Paul Kennedy LSE-EUIROPP
How Trump Could Rebuild America [18]
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