Policy analyst @researchbridges | @istbrunoleoni | @iref_eu. Commentatore per @ilfoglio_it e @Tempi_it.
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POLITICHE DEI TRASPORTI: SENSO COMUNE vs. BUON SENSO.
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"Una delle idee oggi più diffuse e popolari in materia di investimenti nei trasporti è che la strada può venire alleggerita trasferendo una parte del traffico verso altri tipi di trasporto.
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Dopo gli incidenti in Spagna c’è chi accusa la liberalizzazione. Anche se non c’entra nulla. Di Francesco Ramella ilfoglio.it/economia/2026/11…
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A comunicació de la Facultat han fet això 👇, que és bastant sintètic, sobre què passa amb l'AV a Espanya
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Il settore del trasporto merci su ferro non chiede "assistenza". Chiede "misure di supporto pluriennali". Trova le differenze.
Se le privatizzazioni sono il male, la privatizzazione delle infrastrutture è il male assoluto. E quella delle ferrovie un po’ di più. Anche quando il fatto non sussiste.
Oggi su @ilfoglio_it.
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A sad note on how much business depends on favors from Washington these days.
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Un dia s'inventa la idea de nacionalitzar empreses que ja són públiques i l'endemà vol introduir un impost que ja existeix. Ah i l'anomena "Tax The Rich", perquè en anglès queda més txupiguai!
No! Ada! No! El més perillós no són els milmillionaris: aquests al menys generen riquesa i creen milers de llocs de treball. El més perillós són els paràsits que, després d'anunciar que no tenien prou diners per arribar a final de mes, es presenten a les eleccions amb propostes incoherents per a seguir vivint del diner aliè. Això és el més perillós.
La minoría más peligrosa que hay son los millonarios. Hoy presentamos la medida TAX THE RICH para que los grandes patrimonios tributen mucho más de lo que hacen.
No existe el derecho a acumular riqueza, pero si el derecho a la vivienda, a la educación y a la vida digna. Hay que dejar de proteger las grandes fortunas para proteger la vida de la gente.
Le alluvioni di Firenze e del Nord-Est nel 1966 provocarono danni pari al 2,6% del nostro PIL, con ampio margine il valore peggiore registrato negli ultimi sessanta anni.
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Human adaptation has considerably weakened, if not broken, the link between high temperatures and mortality.
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Been there, done that.
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Perfectamente explicado. ¿Nos podemos permitir pagar el mantenimiento de esta enorme (e infrautilizada) red? No recuerdo haber dicho nada en política tan polémico como cuando dije (en 2015, en la segunda presentación del programa de Ciudadanos), que no, que debíamos parar de construir líneas de AVE y, en su lugar, invertir en innovación. elpais.com/politica/2015/04/…
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Imagine if you had to work 6 hours to afford just one hour of artificial light. That was how much it took in 1800.
By 1880, that dropped to 15 minutes.
By 1950, just 8 seconds.
Today? About 0.2 seconds.
Light was once an expensive luxury. Now, it's so affordable that we barely think twice about flipping a light switch.
That's the extraordinary story of human progress. Innovation has made things that were once out of reach accessible to billions of people.
And it's a powerful reminder of how much better life can get.
@mattwridley, author of The Rational Optimist, explains why we have good reason to be optimistic about the future.
Come è andata a finire?
Non benissimo, diciamo.
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Molta preoccupazione per la valutazione che la UE potrà dare dei progetti del #PNRR ma in passato il giudice si è mostrato tutt'altro che severo.
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The miracle of economic growth.
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Demanding economic growth has become unfashionable among some people in Europe.
Instead they speak of a “cost of living crisis”.
But it’s really one and the same.
Economic growth means that incomes rise relative to prices.
Economic growth means that the things we need become more affordable.
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They were more strict than what is in place, but less strict than the climate movement’s preferred policies in which a council of scientists is given suprademocratic powers in order to impose binding emissions restrictions, so he was basically a climate denier.
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Bill Nordhaus died. People remember him for his climate change work. I remember him for these two papers
The first shows that innovators capture only a tiny share of the fruits of their innovations. I often tell people that shows something about property rights. If only 4% of gains went to innovators and we got so much innovation, what if property rights were tightened? What if they could appropriate 5% instead? How much more innovation would we get ?
The second is that living standards are not well represented by counting military spending (among many other things). After all, tanks and aircraft carriers are not consumer goods. Their value is not the cost-value (which is how government output is calculated) but rather the option value and the flow of deterrence. I expanded on Nordhaus (and others) in this piece (Geloso, V., & Reilly, C. S. (2026). A Defense-Adjusted National Accounting of the US Economy and Its Implications, 1791-2023. The Review of Austrian Economics, 39(1), 19-50). And thus I owe a debt to Nordhaus.
Both are underappreciated great works
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Thank you Uncle Bill, for all that you did for the world, and for me. breakthroughjournal.org/p/th…
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Reminds me of this one, from @MaxCRoser. Hard not to wonder if decadence fuels pessimism in the west.
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A giant is gone. news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/wil…
La lezione dell’AV spagnola: la liberalizzazione è ottima cosa ma non può rendere redditizi gli investimenti se la domanda è debole.
In Italia, per le linee oggi in costruzione, la situazione è peggiore perché i costi di costruzione sono molto più alti.
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