November 2011 / In this Issue

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In This Issue

Italy is at the center of the European financial turmoil, and Mr Berlusconi is eventually forced to step down. However, it is worth to stress the failure of the eurozone’s Merkel-Sarkozy leadership: Paladini and Palaiologos on the Greek collapse; Roncaglia and D'Ippolito on the specific of Italian crisis; Lettieri on the possible alternatives through an ECB different approach.

Also, in this issue, Marcello Colitti on the changing shape of the globalization; Dean Baker on a financial transactions tax; Paola Brianti on Chine rural poverty in the shade of the huge economic growth.

See also more Papers and Views.

Articles
- Ruggero Paladini
  
  The economic consequences of the expansionary fiscal consolidation. A tale from Greece [2]
  
  Le conseguenze economiche del consolidamento fiscale espansivo. Una storia greca [3]
- Antonio Lettieri
  
  Are there alternatives to Italy’s bankruptcy and eurozone’s collapse? [4]
  
  L'Italia dopo la sconfitta di Cannes [5]
- Yannis Palaiologos
  
  Who Will Lead Greece? [6]
- Marcello Colitti
  
  The reversed globalisation [7]
  
  La globalizzazione a rovescio [8]
- Dean Baker
  
  The Spurious Case Against a Financial Transactions Tax [9]
- Andrew Fieldhouse
  
  In favor of progressive taxation and a balanced approach to budgeting [10]
- Paola Brianti
  
  Il mal sottile della Cina [11]
- Antonio Baylos
  
  Lealtad constitucional, estado social y limite al déficit publico [12]
- Mario Nuti
  
  After the Global Crisis [13]
Papers
L’Italia: una crisi nella crisi [14]

Carlo D'Ippoliti e Alessandro Roncaglia
Occupy Wall Streeters are Right about Skewed Economic Rewards in the United States [15]

Larwernce Mishel and Josh Bivens
¿Hacia lo contrario de un New Deal ? La huelga general de la CGIL en Italia [16]

Antonio Lettieri
A questão da corrupção e o garantismo [17]

Tarso Genro

Views Europe, Italy, Brazil, Chine, India
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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 Seifert