Edoardo Campanella
Edoardo Campanella is a eurozone economist at UniCredit and Junior Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Edoardo Campanella is a eurozone economist at UniCredit and Junior Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
In its push for universal higher education and greater status on the world stage, China is stringing its young people along with the promise of high-paid, meaningful employment after college. It is a … read more
European policymakers have finally recognized the severity of their youth-marginalization problem. But, just over the horizon, there looms another social catastrophe that they have yet to acknowledge;… read more
Faced with major economic challenges and afflicted by a pervasive sense of decline, the US and the EU are falling victim to the very openness that they have promoted for decades. But, rather than purs… read more
The EU’s founders believed that a lingua franca would emerge through economic and social interaction. But they were wrong: to strengthen the euro and establish the foundations for a political union, E… read more
Outgoing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s fall from power marks the end of one of Western democracy most controversial recent chapters. But the story of Berlusconi’s rise and fall was writte… read more
The willingness to embrace change represents one of the main differences between affluent, aging societies and poor, younger ones. If this sounds audacious, compare what has happened in Europe and Nor… read more
Among the many devastating effects of the current global financial crisis, one of the most pernicious in the developed world is the upward trajectory of youth unemployment. When young people cease to … read more
Like many great inventions, gross domestic product has been used in ways that its creators never intended and might not approve. Given that it misses so much that contributes to human wellbeing – and … read more
Too many young people in both the developed and developing world are without work. The Biblical warning that idle hands are the devil’s workshop captures an important truth: Youth unemployment is a po… read more
