A complex climate

Covid-19 has very been expensive in terms of budgets as well as lives. Rich countries have rightly ramped up their budgetary spending – and budget deficits – to keep their populations afloat and to spur a post-pandemic recovery. They have…

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…

Il premio Nobel Giorgio Parisi ci dice che “Tutto ciò che vediamo intorno a noi è un sistema complesso, compresi noi stessi. Nel cervello o nell'organismo i neuroni o gli organi si scambiano di continuo messaggi che influenzano il loro…

 Il summit del G20 che si è tenuto a Roma a fine ottobre ha adottato uno slogan che, a ben guardare, racchiude un problema di fondo per le scelte politiche sulla “trasformazione verde”: People, Planet, Prosperity. I tre termini si…

The recovery of the world economy in 2021 has been more sustained than previously expected thanks primarily to the positive outcome of the current vaccination campaigns in many large, advanced countries. This has made it possible to…