Gea Scancarello

Gea Scancarello is an Italian journalist and author. She works for the Italian television daily show Otto e mezzo (La7). Her researches on digital economy were published into two books: “Mi fido di te” (Chiarelettere, 2015) and “Addicted” (Hoepli, 2020).  Her work has appeared in Italian and foreign media, including Stern, Business Insider, National Geographic, SportWeek, GQ, Heidi, Pagina99, Vanity Fair.

A harsh economic season has arrived

With food prices rising and energy bills skyrocketing, Europe could experience a winter of street protests, strikes and mass demonstrations. The risk was signaled at the beginning of September by Verisk, a consultancy firm, in a report that…

Inflation, green transition, and the ECB’s options

What does “temporary” mean exactly? It may seem like a matter for philosophers and linguists, but it’s not. In fact, the question is at the very core of the dilemma faced by economists, central bankers and policy makers across Europe, who…

Next Generation EU, Merkel’s latest trick: good for Europe

Yes, she did it again. With the clock ticketing on the last days of her presidency of the Council of the European Union, Angela Merkel managed to pull the rabbit out of the hat as she struck a deal with Hungary and Poland on the €1.8…

The unpredictable political economy of a US recovery

There has possibly never been a more difficult time to predict the future of the United States’ economy than right now - seven months into the coronavirus pandemic. In the past two decades, we have grown used to the American economy's…

The sharing economy and smarter business models: the way ahead

Trust as a currency, collaboration as a method, sharing as an aspiration: looking backwards, it is easy to say that, just under a decade ago, we were a little too naive in welcoming the sharing economy as a new economic paradigm. Even…

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