Why “Europe’s ills cannot be cured by monetary innovation alone” [EN]
Introduction On 24 April 2013, the Financial Times published a short article written by Yves Mersch, a member of…
L’America Latina di Eduardo Galeano: imparare l’economia dalla letteratura
Nei miei precedenti articoli ho spesso preso una posizione chiara sul ruolo dell’economia in quanto disciplina sociale: è qualcosa di…
Clean trade in natural resources: putting political accountability in the picture [en]
With very few exceptions, international traders do not care for the political situation of a particular country when dealing…
The Euro-crisis and the suitability of the European institutional framework [en]
Introduction When Gramsci wrote that a crisis consists in the old dying and the new that cannot be…
Federalism and income inequality: whence it came, where it goes [en]
Introduction The aim of this article is to consider the question of the relationship between a political and…
The Heckscher-Ohlin model, or where mathematics fails to meet the real world [en]
David Ricardo: why countries trade In 1817 David Ricardo explained us why countries should trade. Long story short,…
Karl Popper, scienziato sociale
Il 17 settembre di vent’anni fa si spegneva uno dei massimi filosofi del XX secolo, Karl Popper. Epistemologo, logico, filosofo…
Venticinque anni di educazione superiore negli USA. Un’analisi, 1987-2012
Introduzione Rethinking Economics si pone come obiettivo il ripensamento dell’insegnamento dell’economia nelle università di tutto il mondo. Eppure uno tra…
Queen Daenerys, the slave trade, and the utilitarian dilemma (en)
Warning: the following article contains mild spoilers from A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book of the fantasy…
What did Rethinking Economics get right? (en)
In one word: timing. With the demise of the neo-Marxian theories in the late Seventies and the rise…