The economic historian Franco Amatori has collected in an agile volume his interventions on FIRSTonline written during the lockdown and a challenging essay on the history of Iri, which is as topical as ever to avoid improper nostalgia
Among those who would like to resurrect IRI and those who deny any efficacy to industrial policy there is actually a third solution which outlines a balanced relationship between the state and the market and which takes the form of a new industrial policy of the…
The sirens of the entrepreneurial state and above all of the IRI model are once again hovering over Italian politics - But is this really what our country needs today? Here's what the true story of public enterprise in Italy tells us
IRI was a great reality and a great institution especially in the years of the economic boom but regretting it now is equivalent to taking a dive into the past by turning back the clock of history rather than seizing the current emergency as an opportunity for a…
INTERVIEW WITH GIUSEPPE BERTA, economic historian at Bocconi, according to whom the shock of the Coronavirus obliges us to rethink the Italian development model but the strong demand for the state runs the risk of falling into a statism of the past, while…
Faced with the age-old stagnation of the economy, if it is impossible to reinvent the IRI of the past, the renunciation of the State to any hypothesis of industrial policy that guides and encourages entrepreneurs to renew themselves in the new industrial revolution appears astonishing
The CDP has chosen the old IRI headquarters to present its new 200 billion industrial plan, but fortunately excludes a return to the past - Prudence on Tim and Alitalia and the ambitious objectives of the plan in…
The president of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Franco Bassanini specifies in view of Tuesday's board meeting: "So far no one has asked me to resign but in any case I will not resist in the name of personal interests" - And Renzi…
Pierluigi Ciocca, former deputy general manager of the Bank of Italy, presented the "History of IRI" at the Accademia dei Lincei: an opportunity to take stock but without nostalgia - As the governor explained, Visco is not from an entrepreneurial state that today we have…
An ebook by Gianni Dragoni, correspondent of "Il Sole 24 Ore", on Riva and his iron and steel empire entitled "Ilva, the master of the ironworks" is coming out these days - The publisher is Chiarelettere - By kind permission of the author we publish The…
AN ESSAY BY FILIPPO CAVAZZUTI - Courtesy of the author, we are publishing the introduction and conclusions of an unpublished essay by a protagonist of the privatizations of the 90s, such as Ciampi's former Undersecretary of the Treasury, which will appear in the fourth volume of…
