The Minister of Economy Giovanni Tria, the governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazio Visco but also economists, academics, journalists and trade unionists from the Italian and international scene will enliven the fourteenth edition of the Trento Festival of Economics, scheduled from Thursday 30 May to Sunday 2 June and also this year directed by former INPS president Tito Boeri. The appointment falls a few days after the European elections, which changed the political balance in the Old Continent: this, and more generally of "Globalization, nationalism and representation", will be discussed in the over 60 conferences scheduled over the four days .
Thursday 30 May, at 16 the Festival opens, after the traditional inauguration, the lecture by Professor James Robinson, from the University of Chicago, which, introduced by Tito Boeri, will answer the question: what can be done about populism? On the same day, the Minister of Economy and Finance will arrive in Trento, Giovanni Tria who, government commitments permitting, will speak at 17 pm at the Teatro Sociale, while at 18.30, Alberto Alesina, from Harvard University, will reflect on the relationship between immigration and the welfare state by comparing facts with widespread perceptions. At 21 Sabino Cassese, judge emeritus of the Constitutional Court, will delve into the relationship between national political institutions, the state machine and the global market.
On Friday 31 May, at 10, Enrico Letta and Ilvo Diamanti will analyze the new scenarios that will be determined by the results of the European elections, between nationalism and economic integration. While at 11, Professor Hilary Hoynes of the University of Berkeley will address the very current theme of the universal basic income by inaugurating the series of lectures dedicated to the memory of Alan Krueger, the great economist present at numerous editions of the festival, who died a month ago. In the afternoon at 15 at the Social is also expected the intervention of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, while at 17 pm the Fim Cisl trade unionist Marco Bentivogli will speak on technophobia and on the FCA-Renault case. In the evening, at 21, the Festival will remember Antonio Megalizzi, the Trentino journalist who was the victim of a terrorist attack in Strasbourg.
Saturday 1th June, Elhanan Helpman, of Harvard University, will question the relationship between globalization and inequalities, while Olivier Blanchard will discuss the sustainability of the Italian public debt. At 19 pm the speech by Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who will also offer a testimony on the consequences of the conflict in Libya. The day ends at 21 with John Bercow, speaker of the English House of Commons.
Sunday 2 June, at 10.30, the conference by journalist Federico Rampini, well-known face of the Festival, who will question why the working classes, throughout the West, have moved to the right. At 12 it will be the turn of the Governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazio Visco. At 14pm, Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence will discuss the integrity of skills. Professor Raghuram G. Rajan, an Indian economist, will close at 15.30 pm, who together with Tito Boeri will try to draw the threads of the long debate that will characterize the Festival.
Here is the complete program.
