Appena partito a Figline Valdarno il corteo dei 318 lavoratori licenziati dalla #Bekaert. Una delle crisi più grandi in Italia, e nessun rappresentante del governo del cambiamento è presente!

Russian billionaire living in Greece gave hundreds of thousands of euros to Macedonian opponents of the country’s proposed name change, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reveals. Recipients include politicians from various parties & soccer hooligans. occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/…

This week Amazon started creating astroturf accounts that search & reply to tweets criticizing Amazon's working conditions, a normal & regular thing companies do.

Avanti #uniti e in alternativa alle due #destre!

Serbian President Vucic finds out he’s moving his country’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem. #RealTimeDiplomacy

I was looking at some maps for a future article and saw something interesting about Italy. The Po River Valley is the richest and highest-density area because it's the most fertile. But then there's this line of cities. That's so weird. Why?

Is truncating the y-axis dishonest? By William Easterly

I suspect running through a field of wheat is no longer top of Theresa May's list of worst things she's ever done. #GE2017

Blogged: after Grenfell, politics can no longer be seen as a cosy game: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: how institutions select for groupthink: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

this makes me so angry - World Bank 'objective' analysis of Romanian poverty, when it pushed austerity at every single step in transition. x.com/adam_tooze/sta…

You should really read this review of Varoufakis's memoirs by Adam Tooze adamtooze.com/2017/07/01/rea…

The reasons for #Greece's economic collapse are not in reforms implementation, I take a look at evidence from #IMF macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.t…

Η «Φάρμα των Ζώων» της 6ης Σεπτεμβρίου - ThePressProject thepressproject.gr/article/116354…

#Greece labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to. Too late for complaints, says Yiannis Mouzakis shar.es/1PHAN3

Country profiles of the EU #SocialJustice Index for #Greece, #Italy, #Portugal and #Spain. Source: bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/file…

This is a stellar review of the political economy insights and blunders of Varoufakis x.com/BostonReview/s…

1/ Steven Pinker has a new book out. It is, predictably, getting a lot of praise. So I would like to make a few comments about Pinker’s last book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” which was riddled w/ bad analyses, cherry-picked data, and, in many regards, TERRIBLE sourcing.

cc Atlas Women Interesting read on sexual exploitation in the humanitarian field cassandracomplexblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/hol…