Se muore il Sud. No translation available for now, but I would be eager to see how certain phrases and specific wordplays get expressed in English.
The authors, two journalists form the Corriere della Sera really hammer home the decline of the South with many stark examples over the last decades. Some of were known to me, as well as the basic economic numbers, but it is very impressive to see those in-depth looks at some projects and how the puzzle fits. Some of the them are incredible, unless you know something about how certain things work or get 'worked'.
An hour-long presentation by the authors, in Italian obviously.
P.S: In the European economy thread I wrote something which would cause a wild reaction, even hatred in Italy itself: the increasing internal emigration from the Sud to the Centro Nord is IMHO in the long run actually a lot better for our state and our economy. This book as strenghtened my view, even if the authors don't come to that conclusion. We tried to move the work for so long desperatly to the South, with huge projects which are mostly white elephants to be milked endlessy by the various criminals and after the baseless boom thirty years ago many citziens of the Meridione are now worse off. Those who left the South forty, fifty years ago and their children have on the other hand become overall strong threads in the economic fabric of the rest of Italy. Of course it is now more difficult with lower vacancies but always better then to throw away precious human capital and labour in the disaster down there.
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