How Mussolini Founded The Italian Fascist Party I THE GREAT WAR 1921
14 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Italy, World War I
Why did Italy Abolish its Monarchy?
24 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Italy, World War II
The Italian Town That’s Not in Italy (or the EU… kind of)
19 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in international economic law, International law Tags: Italy, maps
Ten Minute History – Mussolini and Fascist Italy
04 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Italy, World War I, World War II
Benito Mussolini Biography: The Man Who Destroyed Democracy
11 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: fascism, Italy
Why was Italy so Ineffective in WWII? | Animated History
29 Jul 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Italy, World War II
The Italian Town That’s Not in Italy (or the EU… kind of)
08 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in international economic law, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of borders, Italy
Why are French jobs so miserable and dangerous?
13 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in labour economics Tags: British economy, compensating differentials, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy
Tertiary educational attainment, 2000 and 2014, USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia
24 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, tertiary educational attainment.
The British, Australians, and Italians experienced strong growth in tertiary attainment since the year 2000. In the case of the Italians, it was from a low base. There is still a big difference in tertiary attainment between English-speaking and other countries.
Source: OECD Factbook 2015-2016.
General government net financial liabilities as % Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Spanish and Irish GDPs
03 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics Tags: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, public debt management, sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults, Spain
I had borrowed a lot of money from scratch after 2007. Greece borrowed a lot of money of its own accord from 2010. Italy always owed a lot of money. Spanish do not know all that much money considering their dire financial circumstances.
Source: OECD Economic Outlook June 2016 Data extracted on 01 Jun 2016 12:57 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
Waiting for the permits to come in: business start-up fees and lost output waiting in Europe and North America
09 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: barriers to entry, Belgium, British economy, Canada, cost of doing business, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain
Expediting the processing of permits can actually make quite a difference to firm start-up costs even in countries with few barriers to starting up a business.
Source: Markus Poschke (2011) Entry regulation: Still costly | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal.
Note: The value of time is set to a business day’s output per day of waiting time at 22 business days per month.
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