Reading time: 5 minutes Once a high-performer, always a high-performer? – The German economy is in a state of malaise. Ever since war befell Ukraine, its status quo has been both dreary and depressing. [ … ]
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Monday Briefing 28/11/2022
Reading time: 9 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from an overview of Elon Musk’s first month as Twitter Chief. In other news, a UK Supreme Court sentence on the second Scottish referendum, new [ … ]
Diritti e Doveri dei Detenuti
Reading time: 4 minutes Le carceri italiane ospitano ad oggi circa 54000 persone. I detenuti vivono una quotidianità molto diversa dalla società esterna, caratterizzata da diritti e doveri peculiari come il diritto a ricevere [ … ]
Far from a steady state
Reading time: 3 minutes The aftermath of Queen Elizabeth’s unexpected demise – the first of a British monarch in the digital age – was characterized by a shower of comments, posts, images, and articles. [ … ]
Carlo Altomonte upon invitation: the good old days of Europe’s growth model are over
Reading time: 6 minutes EU member States, starting with Germany, have to realize that the good old days of the export-led model are over, and that the new global (dis) order requires the design [ … ]
La sottile soglia tra diritto di critica e diffamazione
Reading time: 6 minutes Il mondo virtuale del XXI secolo porta con sé tanti vantaggi ma amplifica altrettante criticità: questo è il caso degli hate speech, o discorsi d’odio, ossia di quelle espressioni d’intolleranza rivolte soprattutto [ … ]
An Invisible Threat: Microplastics in Our Food
Reading time: 3 minutes According to a 2019 study, an average person could be ingesting as many as 1,900 microplastic particles a week, which is equivalent to eating a credit card. But how does [ … ]
Do ut des: the frontier of volunteerism
Reading time: 3 minutes How has volunteerism changed with the pandemic? Was it for the better? Asking ourselves questions, we could be able to grasp what is to be found at the core of [ … ]
“Le Correzioni”: l’ingannevole rincorsa di sé stessi
Reading time: 7 minutes ‘Ti prego, solo un ultimo Natale insieme’. Una richiesta insistente, petulante e fastidiosa rimbomba attraverso ‘Le Correzioni’, il romanzo best-seller di Jonathan Franzen, come il rintocco della campana di un [ … ]
Bocconi’s new guests
Reading time: 4 minutes The new academic year has started, and with it, new faces have appeared on campus. Exchange students from universities all over the world have chosen Milan, and more specifically Bocconi, [ … ]