July- August 2018 / In this Issue

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Articles and Opinions
Antonio Lettieri on the European clash about migration.
Umberto Romagnoli and Carlo Clericetti on the work policy in Italy.
Oscar Alzaga on Mexico’s “cambio”. John Weeks, Ruggero Paladini
and Heiner Flassbeck on the EU policy.
Jeff Faux: Central American migration to the US. Dean Baker, Trade
and social classes in the US.
Mario Nuti about the European social model. Thomas Palley
on the Modern Money Theory and Keynesianism.
Carlo Clericetti: the fake macroeconomic forecasts.
Claudio Salone on the Menenio's apologue and the current Italian policy

In the Papers, Domenico Mario Nuti: An essay about the Rise and the Fall of Socialism.
Thomas Palley on Theories of the Welfare State; Elise Gould about the Wages in the US.;
Umberto Romagnoli and the history of the Italian Labor Law; Eileen Appelbaum
on the increase of inequality in the US.

In the News: Stiglitz on eurozone exit; Le migrazioni e la sinistra americana;
Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking; The corporate media
and the rise of the oligarchy; Brazil’s Democracy and Lula;
The German political crisis; The debacle of the leftwing
Parties in Europe; A new theory about the civilization development.

Articles & Opinions

Antonio Lettieri
Migrants and the long night of Europe [1] I migranti e la lunga notte dell’Europa [2]
Carlo Clericetti
War on the last, while cheating the second-to-last [3] La guerra agli ultimi che imbroglia [4]
i penultimi [4]
Oscar Alzaga
El triunfo electoral de López Obrado llega la hora del cambio [5]
Umberto Romagnoli
Le due cittadinanze del lavoro [6]
John Weeks
EU degenerates: Immiserizing Growth [7]
Claudio Salone
Menenio ai tempi della politica attuale [8]
Heiner Flassbeck
Final countdown: Change the EU now – or never [9]
Dean Baker
Trade: It’s about Class, not Country [10]
Jeff Faux
How What We Do There Drives Central Americans Here [11]
Ruggero Paladini
A spectre in Europe? [12] Uno spettro si aggira in Europa? [13]
Carlo Clericetti
Il gatto nero delle previsioni macroeconomiche [14]
Thomas Palley
Modern Money Theory (MMT) vs. Structural Keynesianism [15]
David Cooper
Wages that can leave Workers in Poverty [16]
Domenico Mario Nuti
Social democracy and the European Social Model [17]
La socialdemocrazia e il Modello Sociale Europeo

Papers [18]

The Rise and Fall of Socialism [19]  Ascesa e caduta del socialismo
Domenico Mario Nuti    [20]
Re-Theorizing the Welfare State [21]
Thomas Palley
The State of American Wages 2017
Elise Gould [22]
"Ragionevoli utopie". Cultura giuridica del lavoro e cittadinanza sociale [23] Intervista a Umberto Romagnoli [23] Giovanni Cazzetta What's Behind the Increase in Inequality? [24]
Eileen Appelbaum*
News

Come gli immigrati hanno costruito la sinistra americana ... Nelson Lichtenstein   [25]
The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn't [26]
Bernie Sanders [26]  The Guardian
How to exit the eurozone [27]  Joseph Stiglitz   Politico
A Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking [28]   David Kaiser  The New Yorker
The Guardian view on Germany’s political crisis: the start of the post-Merkel era?
______________________ [29]

Egotpr:  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