Presentiamo "Classe operaia e padronato nelle recenti vicende economiche", un opuscolo derivante da una lezione tenuta da Augusto Graziani nell’ambito di un corso per la formazione dei quadri dirigenti della Federazione Lavoratori Metalmeccanici (FLM) di Brescia svoltosi fra marzo ed aprile...

Presentiamo "Classe operaia e padronato nelle recenti vicende economiche", un opuscolo derivante da una lezione tenuta da Augusto Graziani nell’ambito di un corso per la formazione dei quadri dirigenti della Federazione Lavoratori Metalmeccanici (FLM) di Brescia svoltosi fra marzo ed aprile...

This paper describes the functioning of a currency board within the socio-economic context in which it operates. Special focus is given to the macroeconomic implications of a currency board system compared to a central bank system. In particular the author describes the principles regulating a...

This paper explains the evolution of the International Monetary Fund’s mandate and discusses its role in supporting countries experiencing a macroeconomic crisis. We consider the conditionality attached to its loans and why it is convenient in some regards. Even though its operations and...

Employment, unemployment and, more generally, the theme of work are the issues that have become a social emergency and are central to the debate on economic growth. This paper examines the employment and unemployment in Italy and Europe in the nineties, ie in a period of major institutional...

On 1 January 1999, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has entered its final stage and the euro was introduced as the single currency of eleven European Union countries. The feature certainly peculiar economic and monetary union (EMU) is that in the face of a single monetary policy set at the...

This paper, inspired from the entry into force of the European Monetary Union, is a reflection on the issue of Europe, political economy and its history. Are recalled a few highlights of economic history and the history of political economy, which coincide with periods of major transformation of...