Recent publications

21 October 2024

Xavier Timbeau, “The Lack of Interest in Economics for the Challenge of the Century”, Economics and Statistics, 2024

A new article by Xavier Timbeau, titled “The Lack of Interest in Economics for the Challenge of the Century”, is published in the journal of Economics and Statistics, 543, 2024. Abstract The publication of a thematic section on the environment gives us an opportunity to assess the position of environmental issues within economics. On one level, vacancies for economists published by the American Economic Association (the Job Openings for Economists (JOE) Network) suggest that the net increase in vacancies for positions related to the environment comes from establishments that are not central to the academic economy and that such vacancies […]
10 October 2024

Cafora, S., Lareno, J., and Vitale, T, « Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing in Italy ». Fondazione Feltrinelli, 2024.

A new policy brief by Silvia Cafora, Jacopo Lareno Faccini, and Tommaso Vitale titled « Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing in Italy » was published on the page of Fondazione Feltrinelli. Abstract While the Charter of Fundamental European Rights declares that housing is a fundamental good for leading a dignified life (2002, Art. 34.3), in Italy, the right to housing is not enshrined in the Constitution. The only normative reference is the Constitution’s Article 47, co. 2, which attributes to the Republic the task of favouring the access of popular savings to property. In Italy, the housing culture is based on the principle of home ownership as […]