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Gianmarco Ottaviano

Public Goods Need Europe

There are at least three wrong ideas that need to be cleared up to begin a constructive debate on the role of the European Union at this point in history. The first is that the important decisions in the EU are made in Brussels without any involvement of the Member States. The second is that the decisions made in Brussels have no democratic basis since they are made by bureaucrats not elected by the ...

Donato Masciandaro

Illegal Capital Flows, Europe's Holes

The case of Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark, was the sixth time in just a few months that a bank belonging to a Member State of the European Union was implicated in the laundering of dirty money: Estonia, Germany, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta, strictly in alphabetical order. And that’s not all: in January, the European Commission issued its first recommendation on the so-called ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Amatori Franco

The Long Autumn in Italy’s History

In the 1970s, Italy lived through an unprecedented cycle of labor conflict, that started with the Fiat strike in September 1969, and ended with the “March of 40,000” in Turin in October 1980.#The dynamics of industrial relations in Italy had previously seen moments of particularly strong conflict which had been followed by a retreat of the unions: the occupation of the Red Biennial (1919-1920), ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Sommariva Andrea

A Synergy of Public and Private in Space Exploration

The first phase in the history of human exploration of space, in the 1950s and ’60s, saw a pre-eminent role of government: public investment in the military field and the missions to the moon set off processes of technological innovation with very positive spinoffs for the economies as a whole, as in the case of the development of satellite technologies,#Since the 1970s, more and more private corporations ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Albertini Marco

Gay-friendly Cities? Much More Can Be Done

Thanks to the conquest of civil rights based on the construction and recognition of a specific cultural, social and political identity, LGBT+ people have also become a segment of the tourism market that produces considerable sales at the global level.#LGBT+ tourism regards not only the many thematic events organized around the world, but boasts the presence of ad hoc organizations such as the International ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Antonioli Magda, di Salle Marianna

Tourism Becomes Ever More Rainbow

Today, the LGBTQ segment embraces 3 percent of more than a billion international travelers, and travel spending generated by LGBTQ travelers coming from the main markets is around 219 billion dollars per year.#Travelers in this segment are traditionally oriented towards LGBTQ friendly destinations, such as large American and European cities. However, in mature outbound markets, we are seeing an increase ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Pulignano Valeria

The Ambivalence of Industrial Relations

Trade unions in Italy are currently facing certain critical problems that derive from the exhaustion of the previous phase of industrial relations, based on policies of consultation with employers’ associations and public representatives, and the difficulty of sharing a “synthesis” of the transformations underway with the other actors in industrial relations.#In the new scenario of the gig economy, ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Fortin Davide

Cannabis: An Evergreen Business

Cannabis is a plant which must be distinguished into two chemotypes: one that is non-psychotropic, the characteristic of the hemp originally used for industry and food purposes; and another that is a narcotic, cannabis with high tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) used for the production of psychoactive inflorescences.#Although Italian law allows for consuming cannabis with high THC for therapeutic purposes ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Fortin Davide

Per la cannabis un business senza crisi

La cannabis è una pianta nel cui genere è importante distinguere due chemiotipi: uno non-psicotropo, che caratterizza la canapa in origine destinata a usi industriali e alimentari, ma adesso utilizzata anche per la cannabis light; un altro stupefacente, che caratterizza la cannabis ad alto tetraidrocannabinolo (THC) destinata alla produzione di infiorescenze psicoattive. Nonostante la legge italiana ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Amatori Franco

Il «lungo autunno» nella storia d’Italia

Negli anni Settanta l’Italia venne attraversata da un ciclo di lotte operaie senza precedenti, avviate con uno sciopero alla Fiat nel settembre 1969 e concluse si con la marcia dei 40.000 a Torino nell’ottobre 1980. La dinamica delle relazioni industriali in Italia aveva già vissuto in precedenza momenti di conflittualità particolarmente marcata a cui aveva fatto seguito un arretramento del ...