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The Crisis and the State: from European Realities to Institutional Imperatives
Anchored, by definition, in the logic of budget balance, the Victorian fiscal morality became today, in contemporary democracy, worthy to be displayed in the museums of economic history. Nowadays, the Keynesian doctrine – in its original version or in its reloaded post-crisis version – established a true status quo of budgetary deficits and public debts. Overwhelmed by the
Syndicalism – (Our) Secret Recipe in Social Europe
A couple of years ago, the front page of news bulletins presented great union demonstrations and manifestations that almost paralyzed iconic cities. We have witnessed, concerned and bewildered, the terrifying show Europe offered to the entire world. The “Bolkestein Directive”, against which tens of thousands of people manifested for months, seemed to become the title of a
The Welfare State, i.e. the Redistribution That Creates Poverty
I have tried, in various studies and articles, to show why the choice of a particular taxation system is not and cannot be a scientific one, but a political issue, in essence. Further on, we also need to understand another essential idea, namely that the flat tax system is not, by definition, the foundation of a liberal fiscal policy. In fact, “the revolution” of the flat tax that occurred in
