
European recovery: we need both joint debt and taxes
Carlo D’Ippoliti adds to the Social Europe debate on a European recovery, contending that the proposals by Varoufakis and Piketty each have merits and should be synthesised.
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Carlo D'Ippoliti is associate professor of economics at Sapienza University of Rome, where he co-ordinates the Minerva Laboratory on Gender Equality and Diversity. He is editor of the open access economics journal PSL Quarterly Review.

Carlo D’Ippoliti adds to the Social Europe debate on a European recovery, contending that the proposals by Varoufakis and Piketty each have merits and should be synthesised.

In his recent op-ed and the associated working paper, Thomas Palley warns against the Ricardian vice of ignoring political-economy considerations when laying out policy proposals,