Society & Culture

2020 was supposed to be a year of renaissance for Brazil. Since 2015, the largest economy of South America has been stagnating, with GDP dropping by 3.6% in 2015 and by 3.4% in 2016, and only slowly recovering between 2017 and 2019. In…

In questi ultimi mesi abbiamo sentito spesso ribadire l’eccezionalità della situazione e ripetere il mantra che, in fondo, una pandemia non se l’aspettava nessuno, che ci ha colti tutti di sorpresa. Non serve a niente sottolineare che vari…

L’epidemia da coronavirus si è abbattuta in modo impetuoso sull’Italia, il primo paese europeo ad aver riscontrato, verificato e condiviso con il resto del mondo un caso di infezione da SARS-CoV-2 al di fuori della Cina. L’introduzione…

A recent survey asked American parents who was the one spending more time helping children with their school work while school was closed because of the coronavirus. Nearly half the men said they did - yet only 3% women agreed. Instead 80%…

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…