Joseph E. Stiglitz
What is Italy Saying?
NEW YORK – The outcome of the Italian elections should send a clear message to Europe’s leaders: the austerity policies that they have pursu…
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Italy’s national elections have failed to produce a clear winner, roiling financial markets and delivering a strong rebuke to the country's political elite and EU-imposed austerity measures. With populists gaining ground, and Silvio Berlusconi back from the political dead, is the eurozone becoming ungovernable?
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Ian Buruma
Send in the Clowns
NEW YORK – When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock ma…
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Mario Margiocco
Italy’s Perfect Political Storm
MILAN – In the aftermath of Italy’s recently concluded election, no one knows who can and will govern the country. In fact, the best solutio…
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Paola Subacchi
An Economic Agenda for Italy
MILAN – At the end of this month, Italian voters will choose their next government, from which they expect jobs and a more level economic pl…
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Mario Margiocco
Italy’s Taxing Election
MILAN – A winter election is not to Italian tastes. But, on February 24-25, up to 50 million voters will go to the polls to elect a new parl…
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Luigi Zingales
Pulling the OMT Trigger
CHICAGO – Europe has been experiencing a period of calm after the storm since European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s “whatever it ta…
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Paola Subacchi
Europe’s Unending Berlusconi Problem
LONDON – Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time prime minister and the country’s dominant politician for two decades, has now been convicted …
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Paola Subacchi
Normalizing Italy
LONDON – Italy’s political exceptionalism – its chronic inability to marshal coherent governments backed by stable parliamentary majorities …
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Fabrizio Tassinari
Mario Monti’s Nordic Dream
ROME – Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister, is a self-styled German among Italian economists. As the European Union’s top competition offici…
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Edoardo Campanella
Italy’s Last Democratic Despot
ROME – Italy has always had a weakness for authoritarian figures. Emperors, kings, princes, or despots have held power one after another sin…
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