Demand of accountability through the global social media
I think that consumers and citizens have a lot of leverage over multinational (or global) corporations. They have leverage especially over those corporations that make products. Products are inherently more subject to evaluation than services, they are easier to evaluate over time and space. They are then more subject to international competition. Consumers and citizens [...]
On Mario Monti. Letter to ‘The Economist’
Sir, It is an unfortunate circumstance that implementation of draconian laws is taking place in Italy only in the “boat-tax war” (August 25th, page 43) while many other bills are being stalled by sluggard bureaucracy which is dragging its feet in the drafting of the implementing regulation. Like all Italian premiers, Mr. Monti too perceives [...]
The fallacy of economies of scale
Economies of scale are called upon to warrant consolidation of government agencies: this is a basic fallacy of ill understood micro-economic concept that was applicable to the fordist chain production and ill even at that, as island production demonstrated decades ago. Government agencies, the bigger they are the more monopoly power they wield, less efficient [...]
Freed from photocopies: the caste of the ignorant
The idea a career as a progression of role (and of salary) isn’t supported by fact. Indeed, most of us, have been working in their lives through horizontal careers. It is not true that with time you can automatically acquire the skills and the abilities to climb the corporate ladder. Nor that it’s desirable to [...]
Strike against the government
A strike against the government is one more example of irresponsibility and hurting the unknown stakeholder. Striking against government does not meet the criteria for the right of workers to strike against a proprietor of the factory as government is not a principal (as the workers and the proprietor of the factory are) but it [...]
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