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Democrazia vendesi. Dalla crisi economica alla politica delle schede bianche
“Ai tempi delle grandi dittature del Novecento in Europa si moriva per la libertà, i diritti umani, la giustizia e la democrazia. Oggi si muore per i debiti.” Non è una crisi passeggera, è il capitalismo come lo conosciamo che non funziona più. L’euro, la moneta unica creata troppo in fretta e gestita con scellerata leggerezza, ha favorito le economie floride del Nord Europa a scapito di quelle periferiche. E ha innescato una spirale distruttiva che sta travolgendo le democrazie del Sud, dove ormai decisioni come le tasse, le pensioni, gli investimenti in istruzione sono guidate da Bruxelles, non dai singoli governi. Peccato che le misure che vengono imposte, sempre le stesse – tagli, austerità, sacrifici – si stiano rivelando pesantemente recessive. E se continua a scivolare nella povertà, presto l’Italia diventerà una colonia del Nord Europa: un Paese sottomesso e in miseria in cui esportare le proprie merci e qualche volta andare in vacanza.
Era prevedibile tutto ciò? La risposta è sì, come dimostra Loretta Napoleoni in questo libro appassionato, documentato, denso di scomode verità e illuminanti incursioni nella Storia. È stato previsto? La risposta è no. Dati alla mano, l’autrice spiega come i governi nazionali e le istituzioni internazionali hanno fallito nel loro compito di proteggere i cittadini e oggi insistono nel loro errore. Di fronte a questo disastro, in un anno in cui gran parte del continente andrà al voto, è il momento di tornare a pretendere decisioni coraggiose, capaci di infrangere tutti i tabù, persino quello dell’uscita dall’euro. Napoleoni ne illustra alcune: modi per riscoprire l’immenso potenziale delle nostre economie locali, per organizzare forme alternative di finanziamento, per creare una nuova partnership mediterranea. Il futuro, come già profetizzava Keynes, ha bisogno di soluzioni che rendano obsoleto il presente.
Era prevedibile tutto ciò? La risposta è sì, come dimostra Loretta Napoleoni in questo libro appassionato, documentato, denso di scomode verità e illuminanti incursioni nella Storia. È stato previsto? La risposta è no. Dati alla mano, l’autrice spiega come i governi nazionali e le istituzioni internazionali hanno fallito nel loro compito di proteggere i cittadini e oggi insistono nel loro errore. Di fronte a questo disastro, in un anno in cui gran parte del continente andrà al voto, è il momento di tornare a pretendere decisioni coraggiose, capaci di infrangere tutti i tabù, persino quello dell’uscita dall’euro. Napoleoni ne illustra alcune: modi per riscoprire l’immenso potenziale delle nostre economie locali, per organizzare forme alternative di finanziamento, per creare una nuova partnership mediterranea. Il futuro, come già profetizzava Keynes, ha bisogno di soluzioni che rendano obsoleto il presente.
252 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
About the author
Loretta Napoleoni
25 books86 followersLoretta Napoleoni is the bestselling author of Maonomics, Rogue Economics, Terror Incorporated and Insurgent Iraq. She is an expert on terrorist financing and money laundering, and advises several governments and international organizations on counter-terrorism and money laundering. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Napoleoni brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks.
Napoleoni is a regular media commentator for CNN, Sky and the BBC. She is among the few economists who predicted the credit crunch and the recession, and advises several banks on strategies to counter the current ongoing crisis. She lectures regularly around the world on economics, terrorism and money laundering.
Loretta is also a columnist and writes about terrorism, money laundering and the economy for several European financial papers including El Pais, The Guardian and Le Monde. In the 1990s she was among the first journalists to interview the Red Brigades, the Italian Marxist armed group. She subsequently spent three years interviewing members of other terrorist organizations. In 2003 she interviewed followers of al Zarqawi in both Europe and in the Middle East.
Born and raised in Rome, in the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement and a political activist. She was a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics. She has a PhD in economics and a Masters of Philosophy in international relations and one in terrorism.
She began her career as an economist, working for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the US. In the early 1980s she spent 2 years in Budapest at the National Bank of Hungary working on a project for the convertibility of the florin that ten years later became the blueprint for the convertibility of the rouble. In he 1980s she worked for a UK registered Russian Bank, Moscow Narodny Bank, which acted as the foreign branch of the Bank of Foreign Trade. This position afforded her a unique insight into the Soviet economy. In 1992 she produced the final documentation for the structure of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD. She teaches a course at Judge Business Schools, Cambridge.
Napoleoni ’s books include Modern Jihad (Pluto Press, London, 2003); Terror Inc. (Penguin, London, 2004); Insurgent Iraq (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005); Terror Incorporated (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005); Rogue Economics (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008); Terror and the Economy (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2010) and Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Are Better Capitalists Than We Are (Seven Stories Press 2011) . Her latest book is the best seller Islamist Phoenix (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2014). “The IS doesn’t want to destroy. They want to build the 21st century version of the Calliphate and that is what makes them so dangerous”. Her books are translated into 18 languages including Chinese and Arabic. She lives in London and in the US with her husband and their four children.
Napoleoni is currently working at a book linking the post 9/11 Western foreign policy, the kidnapping and refugee crisis. Based upon original interviews with former hostages, negotiators, member of the crisis unit, kidnap owes and refugees, the book will unveil how post 9/11 Western foreign policy is responsible for the birth of a new breed of criminal and terrorist engaged in kidnapping of Westerners and trafficking migrants. Napoleoni defines these people Merchant of Men.
Napoleoni is a regular media commentator for CNN, Sky and the BBC. She is among the few economists who predicted the credit crunch and the recession, and advises several banks on strategies to counter the current ongoing crisis. She lectures regularly around the world on economics, terrorism and money laundering.
Loretta is also a columnist and writes about terrorism, money laundering and the economy for several European financial papers including El Pais, The Guardian and Le Monde. In the 1990s she was among the first journalists to interview the Red Brigades, the Italian Marxist armed group. She subsequently spent three years interviewing members of other terrorist organizations. In 2003 she interviewed followers of al Zarqawi in both Europe and in the Middle East.
Born and raised in Rome, in the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement and a political activist. She was a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics. She has a PhD in economics and a Masters of Philosophy in international relations and one in terrorism.
She began her career as an economist, working for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the US. In the early 1980s she spent 2 years in Budapest at the National Bank of Hungary working on a project for the convertibility of the florin that ten years later became the blueprint for the convertibility of the rouble. In he 1980s she worked for a UK registered Russian Bank, Moscow Narodny Bank, which acted as the foreign branch of the Bank of Foreign Trade. This position afforded her a unique insight into the Soviet economy. In 1992 she produced the final documentation for the structure of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD. She teaches a course at Judge Business Schools, Cambridge.
Napoleoni ’s books include Modern Jihad (Pluto Press, London, 2003); Terror Inc. (Penguin, London, 2004); Insurgent Iraq (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005); Terror Incorporated (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005); Rogue Economics (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008); Terror and the Economy (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2010) and Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Are Better Capitalists Than We Are (Seven Stories Press 2011) . Her latest book is the best seller Islamist Phoenix (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2014). “The IS doesn’t want to destroy. They want to build the 21st century version of the Calliphate and that is what makes them so dangerous”. Her books are translated into 18 languages including Chinese and Arabic. She lives in London and in the US with her husband and their four children.
Napoleoni is currently working at a book linking the post 9/11 Western foreign policy, the kidnapping and refugee crisis. Based upon original interviews with former hostages, negotiators, member of the crisis unit, kidnap owes and refugees, the book will unveil how post 9/11 Western foreign policy is responsible for the birth of a new breed of criminal and terrorist engaged in kidnapping of Westerners and trafficking migrants. Napoleoni defines these people Merchant of Men.
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August 24, 2017
se la classe politica è corrotta e poco professionale... è colpa ed espressione diretta degli elettori.. ah no, questa è una mia opinione; l'originale continua così "non è meglio cambiarla piuttosto che farci governare dal mercato e dall'alta finanza"? risposta: evidentemente no, perché siamo (anzi SONO) dei coglionazzi masochisti. Una nuova tangentopoli sta minando alla base il rapporto tra cittadini e politica, sullo sfondo di una crisi economica epocale "Alla base della piramide politica stanno avanzando nuove forze che usano strategie e armi (che brutta parola) atipiche, aliene alla casta italiana", (p.91). e chi sarebbero? semplice: i ghostbusters!!! "lo strumento più usato contro la democrazia è il piccone economico", (p. 107). NB il meglio del libro arriva alla fine, con i due capitoli conclusivi.
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June 5, 2013
Sarà pur l'Europa che ce l'ha chiesto e ce lo chiede, ma il problema è: chi lo ha chiesto e lo sta chiedendo all'Europa?
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