A life as an economist, a book by Pietro Alessandrini

We are publishing the introduction of the book "A life as an economist" by Pietro Alessandrini, a pupil of the great Giorgio Fuà and emeritus professor of economic policy at the Polytechnic University of the Marches, which constitutes the first part of the third edition of "Economics and monetary policy. …
Digital media: space of conflict or mediation?

In the book "Digital Media and International Relations", Giuseppe Anzera and Alessandra Massa analyze what happens when conflicts go online: is the web a space to be colonized in the struggle for the definition of war imaginaries or an ecosystem of mediation?
Elections, Brahmins and Merchants: Piketty vs Marx

According to the French economist Thomas Piketty, the progressives of our times conquer the educated electorate but the conservatives keep the wealthy ones: this is why according to his recent working paper which has attracted the attention of the Economist of which we report the Italian version
Italy after the lockdown: the world to come

The lockdown has forced societies to stop in an unexpected and traumatic way, forcing everyone to reflect on how we were and how we would like to be - "The world you will have. Virus, anthropocene, revolution", the new book by anthropologists Aime, Fables…
The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats (book)

The secret rose is a hidden flower that arises from the hybridization of two different varieties: the alchemical rose and the rose which, alongside the more famous clover, represented the symbol of the Irish nation for a long time, since it was used…
Money and payment systems: plan with Bitcoins

In a book published by il Mulino ("Moneta - From Homer's oxen to Bitcoin"), Riccardo De Bonis and Maria Iride Vangelisti of the Bank of Italy argue that, whatever the future of electronic payment systems and cryptocurrencies,…
Books: to save the planet comes a recipe from MIT

Making nature useless: how to grow more by spending fewer resources. This is the main road to follow to save the planet according to Andrew McAfee, a researcher at the Mio Sloan School of Management and co-founder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on…
"No Fear", sovereignty and populism distort reality

Courtesy of the author, we publish the foreword by the former editor of Corriere della sera and del Sole to the new book by Lino Terlizzi "No fear", whose subtitle "Facts and economic data for a counter-narrative in opposition to sovereignty and populism"…
Political Gnosticism in Philip K. Dick

by Raffaele Alberto Ventura From the magazine “Sentieri Selvaggi” — n. 5 (December 2019-February 2020), whom we thank for their availability — we reproduce this interesting contribution by Raffaele Alberto Ventura, author of the book Everyone's war. Populism, terror and the crisis of society…
The Book Festival in Irpinia only on the web

The traditional appointment in the heart of Southern Italy, an opportunity to recover after the epidemic. The relationship with the environment. Once again protagonists, young people. The coronavirus didn't stop them. In order to maintain the link with artists, poets, writers, journalists, they have organized the "Feast of Books and Comics" on the web: www.alessiabellofatto.altervista.org. In Avella in the Parco del Partenio…
An exceptional story: Maria Montessori by Francesca Marone

It is difficult to underestimate the importance of the Montessori method in training the young innovators who have brought about the Internet revolution. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google both trained in a Montessori school. Even Jeff Bezosci passed. Everyone…