Commentaries by Guido Tabellini

• Apr. 14, 2006

  Italy’s Return to Political Paralysis

  For more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system. Voters could choose between a left-wing coalition and a rig…

• Nov. 17, 2005

  France’s Ghetto Economy

  The youngsters who are ravaging France realize that they don’t have a future. That is why they are burning cars. But how many French politic…

• Sep. 6, 2005

  Democracy Comes Second

  Democracy is slowly spreading around the world. From the Middle East to Latin America and Asia, many autocracies are taking gradual steps to…

• Jan. 11, 2005

  Building on the Euro

  The euro is now six years old. It is past time to consider how it is performing, and whether it has lived up to the expectations that accomp…

• Sep. 23, 2004

  Saving the Stability Pact from Itself

  At their meeting in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, the EU's economic ministers (Ecofin) once again confronted the need to reform the Stabili…

• Jul. 15, 2004

  Berlusconi on the Boil

  Silvio Berlusconi was elected as Italy's prime minister after campaigning on a platform of reinvigorating the economy through tax cuts and l…

• Apr. 23, 2003

  A Turning Point for Europe's Constitution

  For the past several weeks, attention was focused on the war in Iraq and on the fault lines within Europe that the conflict exposed. But at …

• Feb. 18, 2003

  The IT Boom Was a Myth Only in Europe

  America's economy remains on the brink of a double dip recession, the dollar is weak, and Wall Street seems unable to recover. An apocalypti…

• Jun. 18, 2002

  Barbarians at the Gate?

  Europe's lumpen outsiders are becoming insiders as the Continent's political pendulum swings to the right. After the Netherlands and France,…

• Feb. 18, 2002

  Checks and Balances in an EU Constitution

  There is widespread agreement that the EU would benefit from further centralization of internal security, and of elements of foreign and def…