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Il muro in casa. Memorie del 1989 in Italia
No full textUna riflessione sulle memorie degli intervistati/e italiani/e all'interno del progetto "Breaching The Walls: We Do Need Education!
Una germanizzazione imperfetta. Culture economiche e conflitti politici nell’Europa della Grande Recessione (2010-2015). Appunti per una ricerca
No full textRoberto Ventresca, A Flawed Germanization. Economic Cultures and
Political Conflicts in Western Europe During the Great Recession (2010-
2015). Notes for a Research
The paper overviews the main historiographical issues on which the
research project titled A Flawed Germanization. Economic Cultures and
Political Conflicts in Western Europe during the Great Recession (2010-
2015) will be built. Starting from a short reconstruction of the main factors behind the outbreak of the 2007-2008 Great Recession in Western
Europe, this essay takes into account the main topics the research will
deal with, such as the policies promoted by the European Union in order
to face the economic and financial crisis in the time between 2010-2015
(i.e. the creation of the European Financial Stability Facility, the setting
up of the so-called fiscal compact) and the role played by Germany in the
conceptualization of such measures. According to this, the research aims
at understanding whether and to what extent the policies promoted by
the actors – conceived at both national and supranational levels – of post20017 European governance were deeply intertwined with some of the
most significant economic cultures that have been contributing to shape
the very features of European integration history over the last decades,
such as German ordo-liberalism and Anglo-Saxon neo-liberalis
Crisi come disciplinamento. Neoliberalismo, Grande recessione e integrazione europea (2008-2012)
No full textRoberto Ventresca,
Crisis as a Disciplinary Tool. Neoliberalism, European
Integration, and the Great Recession (2008-2012)
This article focuses on the mutual interdependence between the management of the so-called post-2007 Great Recession in Europe and the
transformations that occurred in the very shape of specific layers of contemporary economic thought. As for its ‘spatial’ perspective, this article
refers to the institutional perimetry of the European Union (EU); with respect to its conceptual focus, it deals with the evolutions and transformations of the neoliberal school of thought. In doing so, this contribution
will first and foremost explore whether and to what extent the EU management of the effects brought about by the 2007-2008 economic crisis
went hand in hand with the spread and implementation of neoliberal
economic policy prescriptions; second, this paper aims at understanding
in which terms the spread of neoliberal-oriented measures contributed in
turn to reshape the decision-making process of EU institutions after the
outbreak of the Great Recession. Therefore, this article will examine how
and to what extent the management of the post-2007 economic crisis, as
far as European Union institutions and policymakers were concerned,
implied the reconfiguration of the very features of the so-called neoliberal school of thought
C. S. Maier, Leviathan 2.0. Inventing Modern Statehood
No full textR. Ventresca, recensione a C. S. Maier, Leviathan 2.0. Inventing Modern Statehood, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, 201
Processi di liberalizzazione tra integrazione continentale e conflittualità internazionale. Italia, Europa, Oece (1947-1953)
Get PDFThis article examines Italy’s experience in the Organization for European Economic
Cooperation (Oeec) in the aftermath of World War II. In particular, it explores the trade
liberalization strategies pursued by Italy in the framework of the Organization, such as the
progressive reduction of duties, tariffs and quotas on imports of goods from Western Europe’s
markets. Furthermore, the article analyzes the most important negotiations that marked
Italy’s participation in the Oeec trade liberalization scheme between the late 1940s and the
early 1950s, namely the Stikker and Pella Plans (1950); the establishment of the European
Payments Union (Epu) in 1950; the liberalization package envisaged by La Malfa in 1951; the reintroduction of quantitative restrictions by the United Kingdom and France in 1951-
1952. The aim of this article is to investigate the features, assumptions and outcomes of the
“philosophy of liberalization” undertaken by Italy’s ruling classes in the broader context of
the European economic integration process, and the origins of what would later become the
European common market
Sull’orlo del precipizio. La reazione economico-finanziaria delle istituzioni europee di fronte alla Grande recessione (2008-2015)
No full textThis contribution aims at understanding how one of the political and economic
areas most aff ected by the Great Recession, namely the European Union
(EU), reacted to its impact and dealt with its eff ects in the short and medium
term. I will consider the period between 2008, when the fi rst signals of the EU
banking system’s fl aws appeared, and 2015, when the Greek referendum on
the “austerity” measures imposed by the EU Commission, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) – the so-called
troika – made clear the political, economic and even cultural implications within
which the leaders of the EU institutions and its member states faced the
eff ects of the crisis that broke out about seven years ago. The article will also
focus on the role played by some of the main EU member countries, such as
Germany. This contribution will therefore off er an overview of the main turning
points that marked the spread and worsening of the Great Recession in
the EU area between 2008 and 2015. It fi nally aims at illuminating the interdependence
between national and international choices that drove European
leaderships – the EU Commission, the ECB and EU member states, with particular
emphasis on to the role played by Germany – in their attempt to face the
global economic and fi nancial collapse which occurred in those years
E. Grandi, D. Paci (eds.), La politica degli esperti. Tecnici e tecnocrati in età contemporanea
No full textR. Ventresca, recensione a: E. Grandi, D. Paci (a cura di), La politica degli esperti. Tecnici e tecnocrati in età contemporanea, Milano, Unicopli, 201
L'integrazione europea tra l'urto della Grande recessione e il ruolo della Germania di Angela Merkel. Introduzione
Get PDFIntroduzione alla special issue di "Ventunesimo Secolo. Rivista di studi sulle transizioni", n. 1, 48 (2021
«Alberelli senza radici». I delegati italiani alla Ccee-Oece e l’avvio del processo d’integrazione economica europea (1947-1951)
No full textThis article deals with Italy's participation in the post-1945 process of international economic reconstruction and takes into account the experience of the Italian delegation to the Conference - then, since 1948, Organisation - for European Economic Cooperation (Ceec-Oeec). The role of the main delegation's members (Campilli, Tremelloni, and Malagodi) will be fully investigated and, first and foremost, it will be highlighted how the Italian representatives to the Ceec-Oeec set up and interpreted their function of economic international experts committed to the management of the Marshall Plan. Secondly, this contribution will explore the manifold features of the relationships that emerged between the Italian delegates and Rome's central authorities (ministry of Foreign Affairs; Premiership). Thirdly, it will be assessed if and to what extent the delegates earned their own autonomy with respect to the general guidelines indicated by Italy's central government. By placing the Ceec-Oeec's case of study within the wide context of Italy's involvement in the early steps of the European economic integration process and the Cold War, this article aims to shed new light on the contradictory ways through which Italy's economic and diplomatic elite contributed to manage the country's accession to the new Euro-American «bloc» in the aftermath of WWII
Recensione a Michele Cento, Tra capitalismo e amministrazione. Il liberalismo atlantico di Nitti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017, in Zapruder. Rivista di storia della conflittualità sociale, 48 (2019), pp. 183-185.
No full textRecensione a Michele Cento, Tra capitalismo e amministrazione. Il liberalismo atlantico di Nitti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017, in Zapruder. Rivista di storia della conflittualità sociale, 48 (2019), pp. 183-18
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