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Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Lobbies (and Ideologies) Against Competition and Talent

By: Lorenzo Codogno,Giampaolo Galli

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Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Lobbies (and Ideologies) Against Competition and Talent

By: Lorenzo Codogno,Giampaolo Galli

This book draws lessons on the importance of meritocracy for economic growth by analysing Italy's economic decline in the past few decades. Connections, rather than merit, are a long-standing feature of the Italian elites, even in the corporate sector. This became a significant problem when Italy's economy could no longer grow due to imitation, devaluation, and public debt, and faced the challenges of becoming a frontier knowledge-based open economy. This book uses international comparisons on social capital, governance, the role of the public sector, efficiency of the judiciary, education, gender and social inequality, social mobility, corporate standards, financial structures, and more to evaluate Italy's economic performance. It argues that the arrogance of mediocracy is more damaging than that of meritocracy. Italy experienced an economic miracle after the Second World War, and it is still an advanced economy and a member of the G7. Until the 1960s it seemed destined to catch up with the best-performing countries. Then the growth engine stopped, its debt skyrocketed, and Italy became a weaker member of the Eurozone. Many other countries in the world have heavy historical legacies and low social capital, and many others have to make the jump from imitation led growth to endogenous growth. The lessons drawn from studying Italy's case can therefore have important international applications.

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Oxford University Press

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0192692216

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9780192692214

The Vascular Flora of the Bosco della Mesola Nature Reserve (Northern Italy)

By: Alessandro Alessandrini,Giampaolo Balboni,Lisa Brancaleoni,Renato Gerdol,Giovanni Nobili,Mauro Pellizzari,Filippo Piccoli,Michele Ravaglioli

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The Vascular Flora of the Bosco della Mesola Nature Reserve (Northern Italy)

By: Alessandro Alessandrini,Giampaolo Balboni,Lisa Brancaleoni,Renato Gerdol,Giovanni Nobili,Mauro Pellizzari,Filippo Piccoli,Michele Ravaglioli

The Bosco della Mesola represents one of the few remnants of coastal woodlands in Italy. A nature reserve was established in this area in 1977. No detailed checklists of the vascular flora of the nature reserve have been compiled since then. So, there was an urgent need to fill this gap. This book contains a critical updated checklist of the vascular flora in the Bosco della Mesola Nature Reserve. It also allows quantitative comparisons with a previous checklist dating back to the 1960s in order to detect temporal changes in the vascular flora over 60 years. We believe that this book represents a milestone for scientists and all people involved in nature conservation and management in this area and in similar territories in other countries. The readerships can also include high-school students and non-professional botany amateurs.

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112

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Springer Nature

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3030634124

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9783030634124

A History of Capitalist Transformation

A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms

By: Giampaolo Conte

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A History of Capitalist Transformation

A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms

By: Giampaolo Conte

A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. But what exactly does ‘liberal reform’ refer to? The research analyzes the historical origins of liberal-capitalist reformism using a critical approach, starting with the origins of the Industrial Revolution. The book demonstrates that the chief purpose of such reforms was to integrate semi-peripheral states into the capitalist world-economy by imposing, both directly and indirectly, the adoption of rules, institutions, attitudes, and procedures amenable to economic and political interests of capitalist élites and hegemonic states – Britain first, the United States later – between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. As such, the reforms became an active tool used to promote social-economical-financial institutions, norms, and lifestyles typical of a liberal-capitalist economic order which locates some of its founding values in capital accumulation, profit-seeking, and social transformation. This book will be of significant interest to readers on capitalism, political economy, the history of the global economy, and British history.

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156

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Taylor & Francis

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1040094600

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Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Lobbies (and Ideologies) Against Competition and Talent

By: Lorenzo Codogno

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Oxford University Press

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019286680X

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Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

The Vascular Flora of the Bosco della Mesola Nature Reserve (Northern Italy)

The Vascular Flora of the Bosco della Mesola Nature Reserve (Northern Italy)

A History of Capitalist Transformation

A History of Capitalist Transformation

Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

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