The events of Friday, 3 June, 2011
The main programme of the Festival was finalized by the organizers together with the Scientific Director. The joint programme is made up of meetings organized by representatives of the publishing houses or other bodies, which take full responsibility for these events.
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focus
18:30
03
Germany has suffered a severe recession and yet, during the crisis, unemployment diminished. What explains this German miracle? Incentives for introducing shorter working hours? Decentralized negotiations? Individual calculations of working hours? Or are the other explanations?
Presented by Tobias Piller
Sala Conferenze
intersections
16:30
03
For many years now debate has surrounded the supposedly weak civic spirit of Italians. It is often invoked to explain the poor quality of the political class and has been amply recalled, often irrelevantly, to explain the exceptional factiousness of the current political struggle. A sociologist and an economist with long experience in political matters, discuss these and other related issues.
Presented by Enrico Franco
Aula Magna
meetings with authors
10:00
03
organized by Marsilio Editori
discussed by Pierluigi Fagan, Marco Sodano
dialogues
11:00
03
The Deposits and Loans Fund is consists in savings and the Banking foundations participate in its risk capital. According to the government, it should be the white knight of Italian companies and favour their growth. Is this a truly effective way of managing the savings of Italians?
Aula Magna
Evento con diretta TV
dialogues
11:00
03
Information is the soul of the market and free competition can exist only in a market where all the necessary information actually circulates. Between the borders of economic freedom lies information whose availability can expand or restrict those borders. What do Italians know and understand about economics? How do they inform themselves? And how do they manage information asymmetries, often in the field of finance which had a key role in the last global crisis. This and much more is discussed by the President of ISTAT, who conducted a special survey of economic awareness by Italians, the President of ABI, who represents the banking system, and two economists, one specialized in finance and the other in cognitive theories.
Presented by Giancarlo Santalmassi
keywords
10:00
03
People interact to trade information, opinions, sentiments, but also work, goods and services. An isolated person cannot trade with anyone. A person who has been removed from isolation and begins to interact with others, reveals that the exchange has a positive individual value. If he does not begin to interact, he does not reveal the opposite. In short, it is not the “exchange” in itself that has a positive or negative individual value: rather what has a positive individual value is the “free trade”, in other words the freedom to decide whether to trade or not. Between State and Market, which protects this freedom best?
Presented by Andrea Fracasso
Sala Conferenze
sole24ore's meetings
15:00
03
organised by "Il Sole 24 Ore"
coordinated by Alberto Orioli
speakers Alessandro De Nicola, Valerio Onida, Salvatore Rebecchini, Nicola Rossi
Sala Conferenze
meetings with authors
18:30
03
organised by Mondadori
discussed by Innocenzo Cipolletta, Ivan Lo Bello
meetings with authors
12:00
03
organised by Editori Laterza
discussed by Maurizio Ferraris, Luigi Mittone
discussions
17:00
03
According to IOM, there are 230 million migrants around the world. Those fleeing hunger, misery or wars are often the victims of human trafficking. Economic needs, security requirements and different political viewpoints clash, while international crime does not stand by idly.
organised by FLARE - Freedom Legality And Rights in Europe
coordinated by Vittorio Agnoletto
speakers Michele Curto, Oliviero Forti, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Claudia Merlino, Pietro Soldini
Sala Kessler
discussions
15:00
03
Reflection on the distortion or advantages of policy “to support the economy”, the effects on economic freedom and market disturbance: a benefit for the economy or a tool for laying claim to supremacy in political, economic and judicial decision-making?
organised by ODCEC - Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti ed Esperti Contabili di Trento e Rovereto
coordinated by Elia Zamboni
speakers Alessandro Olivi, Claudio Siciliotti, Ilaria Vescovi
Sala Fondazione Caritro
at the border
17:30
03
The study of 107 episodes of fiscal consolidation in the OECD countries highlights under what conditions the restructuring of pubic finances can lead to recession and when the governments responsible are punished by the voters in the next round of elections. It turns out that the famous maxim uttered by Jean Claude Juncker “We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it” is perhaps not so true after all.
Presented by Dino Pesole
discussions
11:00
03
New development scenarios in OECD countries have seen an emerging demand for collaboration between companies, trade union representatives and institutions. Up to what point can entrepreneurial risk be shared with the workers? How does the role of trade unions change in an economy based on small businesses and the local area? What is the role of politics? In the session it is intended to discuss the need to experiment with new forms of relationships and partnerships between the worlds of politics, business and employment.
organised by OECD-LEED and the School on Local Development – University of Trento
speakers Sergio Arzeni, Bruno Dallago, Aart de Geus, Joachim Möller
sede OCSE
meetings with authors
15:00
03
organised by Rubbettino Editore
discussed by Francesco Forte, Alberto Mingardi
for & against
12:00
03
In Italian legislation prostitution is contemplated but not regulated, and its exploitation is punished. In Europe there are a series of different models to govern the phenomenon: at one extreme, there is the German model where prostitution (if chosen by the person who practices it) is a job, with rights, safeguards and obligations; at the other extreme there is the Sweden, where prostitution is on the same level as violence and the clients of the sex market are punished.
organized by "lavoce.info" in conjunction with "ingenere.it"
coordinated and presented by Roberta Carlini
For: Francesca Bettio
Against: Oria Gargano
Sala Depero
Evento con diretta TV
past and present
10:30
03
Why do different religions impose or censure different practices?
If a religion prohibits certain foods while another obliges parents to teach their children to read, what are the economic consequences? Why has India decided to abolish an institution – that of the bride’s dowry to the husband – which has existed for millennia in various civilizations? Why do so many civilizations from antiquity to today have religious laws or norms to combat usury, and what effects do these restrictions have? History provides us with the answers.
Presented by Riccardo Sorrentino
discussions
11:00
03
organised by InfoCamere Scpa
Illegality cannot be fought through isolated action, but rather using a shared strategy within which everyone has their own role: this is the idea behind the creation of the National Legality Committee, in which Chambers of Commerce participate by providing background information
coordinated by Giuliano Giubilei
speakers Ferruccio Dardanello, Francesco Greco, Ivan Lo Bello, Sergio Rizzo, Valerio Zappalà
the economics cafè
17:00
03
in collaboration with young entrepreneurs from Trentino
The public is invited to meet Festival speakers in the café
Caffè Duomo 34
focus
15:00
03
The lecture will review the economic foundations of the fiscal policy framework in the euro area. It will then discuss the current debt crisis and the solutions that have been proposed so far. What is needed is a framework to deal with sovereign debt defaults in the euro area.
presented by Tobias Piller
intersections
18:30
03
A debate between the powers of the future and alternative models. China: the freedom from need and authoritarian paternalism. India and Brazil: two experiments in “southern social democracies". Indonesia: the successful transition of an Islamic country. The challenges of the emerging giants to the American idea of freedom.
presented by Alberto Faustini
Evento con diretta TV
focus
17:30
03
The first months of 2011 have been defined by the major upheavals in a number of Arab countries, all accompanied by demands for more democracy, less power for oligarchies and greater meritocracy in the selection of the ruling class. This Arab 1948 has caught international opinion completely off guard, forcing us to question the profound meaning of these events but also our very ability to understand the times we live in.
Presented by Pietro Veronese
discussions
10:00
03
The major multinational companies influence the life of millions of people, but they have just begun to reflect on their responsibility in terms of safeguarding human rights. The meeting will focus on the role of multinational companies in the development of poor countries with plentiful resources, such as Nigeria.
organised by Amnesty International – Italian section
Sala Fondazione Caritro
focus
16:00
03
How has the role of central bankers changed during the crisis and what must banks do to find a definitive way out?
presented by Elena Polidori
Sala Conferenze
contemporary witnesses
21:00
03
In our country we feel free: free to express our opinions, to move from one place to another, to choose what to study or what career path to pursue according to our interests.
If you look carefully, this freedom clashes – across broad swathes of Italy – with widespread illegality: not only that of the major criminal organizations but also the less visible but no less dangerous phenomena of corruption, patronage, and the black economy.
A leading magistrate, protagonist in the fight against criminal, political and economic illegality, sheds light on one of the preconditions for economic freedom
Presented by Giuliano Giubilei
Evento con diretta TV
focus
18:00
03
This lecture will discuss the consequences of the historic health care reform bill that President Obama signed into law in March 2010. Special attention will be paid to those who voluntarily chose to be covered under the plan as against those who only joined when it became obligatory. The philosophical and legal arguments underpinning compulsory coverage will also be examined.
Presented by Federico Pedrocchi
Sala Depero
focus
15:00
03
The emergency landings in Lampedusa has put the government’s problem of migratory flows dramatically back at the centre of the agenda. Up to what point can these be administered at national level or must they be coordinated by Europe? Italy’s Minister of the Interior and a leading academic in the field discuss the causes and effects of international migration.
presented by Dario Di Vico
Evento con diretta TV