March 2012 / In This Issue

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Articles While Greece looks set to a default just deferred after the new bailout, the eurozone is in recession with a worsening trend of unemployment (in Spain close to 25 per cent). The policy of the ECB with a trillion euro at the disposal of the banks has lessened the credit crisis, but the “fiscal compact” and the “structural reforms” imposed by the Berlin-Brussels axis further hampers the growth. Lettieri and Paladini analyze the contradictions of European policies, and Freyssinet discusses the trade unions' role in France.
Kuttner and Baker on the policies of the U.S. in an election year; Colitti on the debate on nuclear and renewable energy.

In the Papers an essay of Mario Nuti on the aftermath of the global crisis, Antonio Baylos on the Labor reform in Spain and Joel Maurice on the new fiscal compact from a French point of view.

In Views, articles on ECB; Keynes; Labor reform in Spain; and the European socialists’ Manifesto.

Articles

Antonio Lettieri

The eurozone’s labyrinth of paradoxes [2]
Ruggero Paladini

The simple arithmetic of the Fiscal Compact [3]

Qualche semplice calcolo sul "Fiscal compact" [4]
Dean Baker

Greece and Those Wild and Crazy Guys at the ECB [5]
Jacques Freyssinet

La négociation collective en France face à la crise économique [6]
Marcello Colitti

From the nuclear to the renewable sources of energy [7]
Tarso Genro

Uma agenda para a esquerda só pode ser mundial [8]
Robert Kuttner

Geithner's Latest Alibi [9]
Antonio Baylos

Desregulación y antisindicalidad en la reforma laboral española [10]
Jesper Jespersen
"The barriers to sustainable development" [11]

Papers
- Scenari possibili dopo la crisi globale e le strategie di uscita [12] Domenico Mario Nuti
  
  SOBRE LA REFORMA LABORAL ESPAÑOLA DE 2012 [13] Antonio Baylos
  
  Ombres et périls du Traité Merkel-Sarkozy [14] Joël Maurice
  
  Bruno Trentin e il sindacalismo europeo [15] Antonio Lettieri
  
  Views Esta reforma laboral es inconstitucional [16]
  - Is Keynesianism now a houghtcrime? [17]
  - Q&A: ECB President Mario Draghi [18] - For a European Socialist- Alternative [19]
  - El empresario podrá rebajar los salarios a discreción [20]
  
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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