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Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Piergiuseppe Fortunato is an economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, where he leads projects on global value chains and economic integration, and an external professor of political economics at the Université de Neuchâtel.
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Amid anomie and rentier rule, a European left in crisis

Richard Kozul-Wright and Piergiuseppe Fortunato

The left has gone along with a shift of power to boardrooms and bureaucracies, undermining policy ambition and public confidence.

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Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades

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The life and death of Italian centrism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.

The long shadow of market fundamentalism

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.

‘Social media’, market power and the health of democracy

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

With the whistle blown on Facebook, Congress must allocate ownership of personal data to the person—not the platform—to allow competitive providers to emerge.

Fighting Covid-19 requires fewer patents and more state

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Big Pharma has not been the real innovator in the fight against the pandemic and intellectual property rights must be reshaped to restore fairness.

Inequalities and democratic corrosion

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

The right question to ask is not if inequality threatens democracy but which inequalities matter.

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

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S&D Position Paper on Cohesion Policy post-2027: a resilient future for European territorial equity

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