Wer davon ausgeht, dass ein abnormer Zustand vorliegt – sei es nun, dass er die Welt in einer radikalen Abnormitaet…
The world in a model
Laur and Thuenen model of the world economy
The Hamilitonian moment
Now that everybody is discussing whether the Franco-German proposal of a 500 billion euros European Recovery Fund really represents the…
Eurocrisis: a reading list
The Eurocrisis is still with us. It never went away. The epidemic has just made it more visible. What began…
Nikolaj Sieber, Marxism before Marxism
It’s out! After a long process of revisions and integrations, the article on Nikolaj Sieber that I signed together with…
Historical dinners
When I sit in archives, mostly going through long lists of very boring and often hard to read bureaucratical folders,…
Neapolitan grains and governamentality
Last year at LSE, I taught a course on the history of economics centred on the notion of performativity. The…
Recasting Agrarian Europe: Farmaccounta
Tomorrow I will inaugurate the Caffè Storici seminar series at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with a talk on my…
Italian economists on Twitter: the corrosion of expert authority
I really want to thank the many people who reacted to my piece on Italian economists, including BĂ©atrice Cherrier, Nicola…
Public economists in Italy: From blog to parliament to Twitter
Italian economists and the twitter-wars: from blogs to parliament. Observers and students of the public role of economists should not…