A complete work on Italy, on the Italy that was, that could have been and that has not become. Ten essays by different authors who, in their respective fields and from their respective observation points, compare "the two Italys", as the journalist writes Cesare DeCarlo in the introduction, “the one that was built in the post-war years and the one we find ourselves now”. There are the manager, the great clinician, the tax expert, the economist, the banker, the religious, the architect, the academics, names like that by Umberto Veronesi, Victor Uckmar, Vittorio Gregotti, Tancredi Bianchi, Piergaetano Marchetti, Roberto Artoni, Ennio Apeciti, Francesco Billari. È The Italy we have found, the one we are leaving behind (Egea, 2013, 272 pages, 28 euros) volume conceived and edited by Louis Guatri, who is also the author of two of the chapters.
A country, Italy, which is the one that suffers the most among the large European countries despite some economic indicators showing that others too, such as France and Germany itself which dictates the rules in the Union, not to mention Japan and the United, they are having a bad time and despite this they continue to be considered rich. The authors, in their essays, tell how it was possible to get to this point starting from the years of reconstruction and those of the boom, the 60s in which the "Italian brand", with its high quality products, was esteemed and coveted in every part of the world, before a succession of irresponsible policies based on spending and debt, and not on rigor like Germany which has been able to save money in difficult times, determined the stalemate and then the decline. “Italian companies were semi-paralysed. In just a few years, they lost the shares they had conquered in the previous decade”, writes De Carlo again, “and this despite the monetary devaluations”. Will we be able to resolve ourselves?
