Actuality | Non-fiction

USA: Neoliberalism grows the elite
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Of Ilaria Bifarini (Bocconiana redeemed)
There are graphs that are worth more than a thousand explanations. This is what happens to the redistribution of wealth with the end of Keynesianism (1973) and the definitive affirmation of neoliberal policies in the USA, inaugurated for all purposes of the administration Reagan, icon of neoliberalism together with her British "sister" Margaret Thatcher.
The graph shows how, with the application of the new economic model, which completely replaces the previous one, the growth rate of the wealth of 90% of the country is gradually decreasing in an increasingly significant manner, in the face of a mirror enrichment by a restricted group 0,1% of the American population.
After the Reaganomix, the administrations Bush, junior e senior, Clinton e Obama (which also will not distance itself from the elitist model of neoliberalism) they will only accentuate this trend.
The economic model implemented in the USA, than with the presidency Trump is facing a strong backlash, it is the same as applied in Europe and imposed on an almost universal scale. It is not possible to deal with the income redistribution and the socio-economic inequality of states without calling into question the dogmas of neoliberalism.
Source: http://ilariabifarini.com/usa-il-neoliberismo-fa-crescere-lelite/ Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

L'Africa siamo noi
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by Paolo Becchi
Africa is us
Source: Paolo Becchi
To understand something about what is happening in Africa and the mass emigration from that continent, we must first detoxify ourselves from what the newspapers write every day or what the mainstream publishing houses publish, and maybe start by reading a book recently published by Amazon and Youcanprint (both as an ebook and in paperback).
The author, Ilaria Bifarini, she is a young scholar, who presents herself as a "redeemed Bocconian", already known for a volume, Neoliberalism and mass manipulation (2017), which has sold thousands of copies online. His new book, titled The settlers of austerity. Africa, neoliberalism mass emigration (2018) continues the same critical theoretical path towards the neoliberal doctrine, tackling the topic from a counter-current perspective, very relevant today, of mass migrations. The fundamental thesis is soon stated: let's get out of our heads the convenient narrative that traces current African underdevelopment to the colonial past. This thesis is often supported today to justify uncontrolled reception. But it's false.
The disintegration of colonial empires starting from the 1950s led to the formation of independent national states, who however did not have the opportunity to develop their economies independently because they were prevented from doing so: colonialism was thus replaced by something even worse, a form of postcolonialism, focused on economic control, which prevented local economies from growing and developing. Read More

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