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international economy

  • Milan
  • 26 January 2009
     
     

    Europe’s economy after the financial crisis

      Created by the implosion of the US financial system, the last of the “bubbles” – that of the housing market – is the culmination of over a decade of shortsighted American monetary policies and an inadequate monitoring system. The situation is particularly grave, with forecasts that world growth will fall from 5% in 2007 to little more than 1% in 2009. As yet, it is not possible to predict how long the recession will last.

    • Rome
    • 22 June 2009
       
       

      The world after the crisis: designing the future

        The Conference discussion focused on the overall international scenario that may emerge after the worst of the economic crisis has passed. A fundamental question arises concerning the nature of the restructure currently in progress. Does it represent a new paradigm for global capitalism or, less ambitiously, is it just a partial reorganization based on more cautious attitudes and expectations?

      • Milan
      • 2 February 2009
         
         

        Reforming market capitalism

          The participants at this roundtable were deeply critical of the lack of transparency in the international financial system, the product of an out-of-control laissez-faire capitalism and a global lex mercatoria that has swept aside traditional capitalist organizational forms and the regulatory functions of public authorities.

        • Venice
        • 22 May 2009
           
           

          Towards a new financial system: reviving the global economy

            At the May 2009 Aspen Seminars for Leaders, leading representatives from financial institutions and public authorities discussed the financial crisis and the emerging challenges in the structure and dynamics of international financial markets.