Thursday 2 February, at 19.30, at the Assaggi bookshop in Rome (Via degli Etruschi n.4) there will be the presentation of “Nulla è come appare. Dialogues on the hidden truths of the economic crisis”, book by Mario Morrini, published by Imprimatur Editore.
Vladimiro Giacché (President of the Europa Research Center) and Cristina Marcuzzo (University "La Sapienza", Accademia dei Lincei, President of the Association for the History of Political Economy) participate together with the author.
The book is aimed at all those who are interested in investigating the causes of the serious crisis that erupted in 2008 and the long stagnation that followed. Three economists and an anthropology student are stuck in fog in an airport lounge. The student, who knows little about economics, poses a series of questions to the three traveling companions belonging to different schools of thought, on the themes of austerity, the welfare state, the euro, the state-market relationship, environmental degradation and of industrial policies in the face of globalization processes. In the answers to the student's questions and in the animated discussion that develops rapidly, the implications for economic policy of the different conceptions of the three economists clearly emerge. The leitmotif of the various dialogues is precisely the fact that, as far as the long economic crisis we are experiencing is concerned, nothing is as it appears due to the numerous clichés deeply rooted in a large part of public opinion. Thinning out this smokescreen is essential so that citizens can understand, intervene and participate in the processes of choosing economic policies.
