Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Piero Bini 
Author-Email:
Author-Workplace-Name: Università Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Title: Gli economisti italiani e i gironi danteschi della crisi dell'euro
(The Italian economists and the Dante's circles of the Euro crisis)
Abstract: This paper focuses on the analyses and remarks carried out since 2011 by Italian economists concerning
the nature and causes of the current economic crisis and its negative effects on the Italian economy
and society. Four main orientations have critically been analysed. The first one focuses mainly on the limits
deriving from the existence of a currency area which lacks political unity. The second orientation
highlights the great difficulty to implement an effective integration process among geopolitical
economic areas, which are very different from each other, within the Eurozone. The third interpretative
line is that of the left-wing ‘critical’ thought which underlines the inner contradictions of
market capitalism as such. Finally, the fourth field of observations criticises the inadequacy of Italian
ruling classes as well as an insufficient level of civic and political maturity displayed by the national
public opinion. The paper also discusses the various concepts of austerity which come from these four interpretations
of the Great Recession in Italy.
Classification-JEL: O520, B2, B5
Keywords: Great Recession and euro crisis in Italy; history of contemporary economic thought;
current heterodox approaches (Grande Recessione e crisi dell’euro in Italia; storia del pensiero economico contemporaneo;
approcci eterodossi di pensiero economico)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 99-128
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Year: 2013
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201306302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:21:y:2013:2:5:p:99-128