Reading time: 6 minutes In the year that marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the most influential book in the history of Gender Studies, the backlash against the ideas that the discipline has advanced [ … ]
Milgrom and Wilson Awarded Nobel Prize in Economics
Reading time: 5 minutes It was announced on October 12th at 11:45 CEST by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Professors Paul [ … ]
The crisis of today and the politics of tomorrow
Reading time: 6 minutes Bertolt Brecht believed that Man doesn’t learn from history. Catastrophic events, whether man-made or not, are doomed to repeat themselves. In his brilliant and provoking masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children, [ … ]
How to make it out alive: an interview with Prof. Tabellini
Reading time: 5 minutes In the wake of the economic and financial turmoil ensuing from the coronavirus epidemics, influential economists have suggested different measures to foster stability and alleviate the toll that lockdowns and [ … ]
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Reading time: 5 minutes Several weeks into the coronavirus epidemic, multiple governments have declared national lockdown, leading all sorts of enterprises to suspend activities. In an effort to stay open to the public and [ … ]
Vulnerability and subversion: the performative genius of Marina Abramović
Reading time: 7 minutes Some artists are acclaimed for having excelled in the movement they are associated with, or for elevating that movement in the eyes of the public. Others become textbook material for [ … ]
Artificial intelligence at Bocconi: an interview with Rector Verona
Reading time: 6 minutes by Matteo Cremonesi These are exciting times to be a student at Bocconi. This year alone has seen the opening of a stunning new campus for Bocconi’s business school, SDA [ … ]