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About Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino and is a member of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. His last book is Sbilanciamo l’economia. Una via d’uscita dalla crisi (“Off balance. A way out of the crisis”) co-authored with Giulio Marcon (Laterza, 2013).

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The youngest face of Italy’s old politics: Enrico Letta’s “grand coalition”

Mario Pianta 30 April 2013

Does Enrico Letta's newly formed government have what it takes to get Italy out of its dire situation, or is it nothing but a new layer of paint on the crumbling house of Italian politics?

Europe’s austerity, the beginning of the end?

Mario Pianta 29 April 2013

Europe is increasingly unpopular, the recession hits the euro area and Angela Merkel is now facing a new populist party. So Brussels opens up to a timid change of season. But austerity has not yet been defeated politically, in elections and in the streets.

Italy, where nothing is where it should be

Mario Pianta 10 April 2013

Without a government at Palazzo Chigi, Italy’s politics has been displaced. And as the “Offshore Leaks” scandal has revealed, the country’s economy has meanwhile moved to tax havens.

European economic forecasts: why do they get it wrong?

Mario Pianta and Alessandro Bramucci 7 January 2013

The European Central Bank's forecasts misread Europe’s economy three times out of four. And the European Commission, the OECD and the Bundesbank didn't do any better. What is wrong with the mainstream view of how the economy works?

The road for another Europe

Mario Pianta 27 June 2012

A Brussels forum on June 28 seeks alternatives to the inaction of the European Council on Europe's recession and the restoration of democracy.

Nine out of ten: the losers of Italy's long crisis

Mario Pianta 16 May 2012

Every ultra-rich person has the income of 100 poor people. But this is not Dickensian England or Depression-era America. It is the Italy of today. Halting the rise of the super-rich will be a crucial issue for the politics of the future.

European alternatives: trajectories of mobilisation responding to Europe’s crisis

Mario Pianta and Paolo Gerbaudo 30 March 2012
The political culture that supported global and European civil society activism in the 1999-2007 period - challenging neoliberal economic and financial power in the form of governments, EU and global institutions – has appeared irrelevant at the very moment when it could have emerged as a credible alternative to the crisis of European economies and politics. A brief chronology and typology of European resistance so far.

The road to Europe: the making of the Union’s crisis

Mario Pianta 24 August 2011
Yes, European leaders could all agree when it came to imposing austerity on Athens, Dublin, Lisbon and Rome, ‘reassuring’ financial markets, saving creditor banks, increasing countries’ financial burdens and putting public enterprises on the market at sale prices. But such policies make exiting the crisis impossible.

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