Italy Report 2008

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS A Government without a Country by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes ECONOMY From Economy to Finance, between Calvino and Kant

1. The underground economy: a necessary step to survive
2. Families and the everyday economy (survey)
3. The return to competitiveness
4. Consumer credit
5. Economic inequality: the hardship of the North
6. The black year of structured finance
7. The supplementary pensions market
8. Inheritance and youth emancipation
9. The real estate industry: the stability of the expansionary cycle
10. Outsourcing in the public administration

WORK, SCHOOL AND TRAINING The market, work and the challenge of flexibility

11. The dynamics of social mobility
12. A load of families: hypotheses for applying the family quotient
13. The “working poor” phenomenon: unstable balance between poverty and normality
14. The more mature component of the labour force: first signs of a counter-trend
15. Wear and tear, night work
16. Can work kill?
17. Training systems and characteristics in Italy
18. E-learning: one, no one and a hundred thousand
19. The school after the new technologies: how the role of the teacher changes
20. The property market for students living away from home

LEGALITY Legality: a value that pays off

21. Fear of crime: Italians’ sense of insecurity (survey)
22. The permeability of organised crime in Southern Italy
23. Criminal Italy: security in the cities, data and statistics
24. Ecomafia and environmental crime: the activities of the Carabinieri Department for the Protection of the Environment
25. The arms market: the Italian context
26. The cost of security
27. Crimes against the public administration
28. The fake that attracts: the relationship between Italians and the fake “market”
29. Immigration: a phenomenon chased and not governed. The case of the Roma
30. Suicide: a merely private tragedy?

POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS A separated society

31. Citizens’ trust in the institutions (survey)
32. The costs of politics: let’s abolish the Provinces
33. Public administration in Italy
34. In search of the greatest possible competition: the role of the independent authorities
35. Controls and controllers
36. Freemasonry and its history
37. “Less tax, more market”. Prospects for reform of the Italian tax system
38. Think tanks in Italy
39. From programming to delays in the use of European funding
40. Absconding politics and active volunteering

ENVIRONMENT AND TERRITORY Democratic choice in the technological society: the question of information

41. The level of information and the sensitivity of Italians on environmental issues (survey)
42. The difficult relationship between the environment and the press: how does the Italian press deal with environmental issues?
43. Raw materials and energy
44. The burnt forest
45. Availability and consumption of water in Italy
46. Waste emergency in Italy: the Malagrotta case
47. The “RomaperKyoto” project
48. The transport system in Italy
49. Motorways of the sea: the new transport frontier
50. A journey through food in Italy

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION Lazy information

51. Citizens and the media (survey)
52. The business of communication between schools, masters and mistaken hopes. Schools of journalism
53. GP: Grand prize for survival among precarious journalists
54. Italy as seen by others
55. The radio boom
56. The eternal defendant: Italian television
57. Online publishing, between community and citizen journalism
58. Social Networks: a new place for relations
59. The role of communication in the diffusion of renewable energy: the press and solar energy
60. E-Vangelisation: Internet as the new frontier of Catholic communication