This essay explores the subject of the aversion of intellectuals to the market economy through a study of the Italian cinema of the early 1960s. The impact of Italy's ‘economic miracle’ on coeval cinema can hardly be overemphasized. Not only it inspired well-known art films, such as Federico...

Il presente saggio contiene una disamina e valutazione dell’attività di Pasquale Jannaccone come opinion maker mediante un’analisi degli editoriali pubblicati su “La Nuova Stampa”. Dopo un breve profilo scientifico dell’autore, vengono affrontati tre elementi relativi al suo lavoro di...

In 2011, Edoardo Nesi - a former industrialist of the Prato textile district - won the most prestigious Italian literary Prize for his autobiographical novel Storia della mia gente, a book centered upon Prato's past industrial success and present decline. Nesi has since become a regular...

The trial and conviction of seven public officials in L’Aquila, central Italy, for having allegedly given out misleading and incorrect information to the public before the 6 April 2009 earthquake has proved to be one of the most momentous developments of recent times in science and disaster...

The treatment of the difference arising on consolidation has been both a subject of debate (especially in the English-speaking counties) and a source of international diversity in financial reporting. The implementation of the EU Fourth and Seventh Directives could be expected to reduce the...

After a brief historical introduction, the paper examines the true and fair view (TFV) requirement in the Fourth Directive, and in the corresponding company legislation in UK, France and Germany. Differences and nuances are explore from a language and translation viewpoint and also related to...