Friday 20/8/2021 at 17:30
Books
"Aperitif with the author" in Asiago, cultural meetings organized by the Giunti al Punto Library
Friday, August 20, 2021 will be held a new meeting of the literary review"Aperitif with the author",organized by the library Giunti al Punto di Asiago.
Carlo Cottarelli will present to the public his book "All'inferno e ritorno per la nostra rinascita sociale ed economica".
The meeting will be held as always in Piazza Carli at the piazzale del Duomo,in the center of Asiago,at 5.30pm.
INFO AND RESERVATIONS
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED to be made at the Tourist Information desk of the Municipality of Asiago
The reservation allows access to the reserved area at the piazzale del Duomo,in Asiago and, only in case of bad weather,at the first 170 bookings, the entrance to the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.
It is recommended to maintain an interpersonal distance of at least one meter.
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BOOK "ALL'INFERNO E RITORNO per la nostra rinascita sociale ed economica" - Feltrinelli
The world is facing the worst economic crisis since the Second World War. The virus is doing more serious damage than Lehman Brothers. What about Italy? You have to go back to 1945 to find a worse figure of gdp fall.
The crisis has highlighted our weaknesses, of course, but also our strengths, including our ability to respond well in emergency conditions. But facing the emergency is not enough, and it is not enough to go back to where we were in 2019: now we have before us the responsibility for reconstruction.
Carlo Cottarelli stands on the border between the world that collapses and the world that will come after. And, while he accompanies us through the labyrinth of economic possibilities available to us today, he shows us how Italy needs to return to growth in a sustainable way from a social, financial and environmental point of view. We must save our economy, but to do so we need more equality, especially in the opportunities that are provided to the new generations.
For this it takes politics, and in fact this is a book (also) political. Because it speaks of how Italian society should function on the basis of an ideal principle: the possibility for everyone to have a future in life, regardless of the conditions in which one was born. it is important that the political agendas start from a clear statement of the society that one would like to achieve. Otherwise, politics becomes personalism, opportunism and cynicism.
"We are emerging from the crisis, but it is not enough to go back to where we were in 2019, the year that ended the worst twenty years in the economic history of Italy. To really start again, we need radical reforms in our economy and in our society."
A guide in the labyrinth of our economic reconstruction but also an idea for the future of Italy, starting from three watchwords: equality of possibility, merit and solidarity.
THE AUTHOR CARLO COTTARELLI
Carlo Cottarelli (Cremona, 1954), after working at the Bank of Italy and Eni, from 1988 to 2013 was on the staff of the International Monetary Fund, directing the Department of Public Finance from 2008 to 2013. he was Special Commissioner for the Expenditure Review, appointed by the Italian government, from October 2013 to November 2014.
After returning to the Monetary Fund for three years as executive director, since November 2017 he has directed the Observatory on Italian Public Accounts of the Catholic University of Milan and teaches at Bocconi University.
He has written numerous academic articles and books. For Feltrinelli he published: The shopping list. La verità sulla spesa pubblica italiana e su come si può tagliare (2015), Il macigno. Why the public debt crushes us and how do you get rid of it (2016), The seven deadly sins of the Italian economy (2018), Pachyderms and parrots. All the hoaxes about the economy we continue to believe (2019) and Hell and Back. For our social and economic rebirth (2021).
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