It rather hurts me to hear that Mario Draghi, the Taciturn, has built up his government team “far from the interferences of the parties”, that “politicians are, by their very nature, incompetent”. As a matter of fact, politics as nuisance.
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This essay ("John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today") has been published by FP on January 2021 Here are reproduced parts of the essay.
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened the European situation in general, and Italy is one of the worst hit nations, not only with regard to deaths, but also economically.
At its root, the political question is how Italy can emerge from a long phase of economic stagnation and growing inequalities, which requires profound transformations that affect the consolidated social order.
