Publication: Corriere della Sera

15.02.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It feels like a slow-moving Greek tragedy, destined to end in disaster. But let us be optimistic: perhaps it will turn out to be a demonstration of clever...

03.02.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Everyone knows that this is a global recession, in which virtually all countries are suffering. Certainly, all the rich industrial countries of Western Europe,...

17.01.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

There are two dimensions on which Germany´s new 50 billion euro fiscal package should be judged. The first is economic: is the package the right thing to...

31.12.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

To some people, currencies are a national virility symbol. So the rapid decline of the British pound, in effect to parity with the euro, must be a national...

24.12.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

How bad do you think the recession is going to be? How long will it last? Those are the two most common questions I have been hearing recently, as we approach...

28.11.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Despite its famous democracy and its much-admired economic growth, India is a violent place. Bombs are frequently set off in markets, railway stations and...

14.11.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When the world is collapsing all around us, in a crisis that is now genuinely global, the very least we can expect of our governments is that they should meet...

07.10.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This was supposed to be an American crisis, based on American subprime mortgages and American-style capitalism. So why do European banks seem now to be...

23.09.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The tragedy of contaminated baby milk in China is just the latest in a long series of such scandals, all of which follow the same pattern. There is early...

10.09.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The nationalisation by the American government of two huge mortgage-lenders, known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is a piece of unequivocally good news, a ray...

31.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

There is a strange inconsistency in the way we treat farmers. If they grow wheat, or sugar beet we pay them subsidies, sometimes to produce more, sometimes to...

15.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This global economic situation continues to make a nonsense of all predictions. One year ago, when the “credit crunch” based on American subprime mortgages...

11.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

So, a report by the French tax and social affairs inspectorate wants to promote higher taxes on foods that are “too rich, too sweet, too salty and are not...

02.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Technology plays a part in virtually every sport. We know there have to be rules about what materials are used in tennis rackets and golf clubs, about what...

29.07.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This week, on the shores of Lake Geneva, a meeting is taking place that could determine whether globalization continues to make progress or whether...

11.07.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Robert Hughes, the great Australian art critic and essayist, called it “The shock of the new” in his justly celebrated book and television series on...

22.06.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

If globalisation means that we share problems with more and more other countries as well as create opportunities for trade and investment, then proof of that...

11.06.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

America should be flattered. Despite all the talk of its decline, in the aftermath of the Iraq war and now the subprime mortgage crisis, and despite claims in...

28.05.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When two natural disasters occur side by side, in neighbouring countries, we are inevitably tempted to compare them. That is exactly what has happened with the...

20.05.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Those of us who are in favour of globalisation, who celebrate the way it has raised living standards and reduced poverty around the world, are forever worrying...

04.05.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This was the beginning of the end for Labour Party rule in Britain. In theory, Labour’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, has up to two years to recover from the...

21.04.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Commentators and scholars of Japan have for many years been attracted by strange parallels between the politics of that country on the far edge of Asia and of...

14.04.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

An election campaign is a piece of pure political theatre, whether it is interminably long, as in America’s two-year races, rather short as in Britain’s...

25.03.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is a debate that will never die. The rescue this week by the Federal Reserve Board of Bear Stearns, America’s fifth-biggest investment bank, and its...