Andrea Capussela
@andreacapussela.bsky.social
📖 The Republic of Innovation (Polity), The Political Economy of Italy's Decline (Oxford), Declino Italia (Einaudi), State-Building in Kosovo (Bloomsbury)
✒️ Domani, Le Grand Continent, sometimes Financial Times
✒️ Domani, Le Grand Continent, sometimes Financial Times
Qui parlo di tassa Zucman e idea classica di libertà:
'Assunta questa concezione, e date le condizioni attuali, la battaglia per la giustizia fiscale è una battaglia di libertà.'
www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
@marioricciardi.bsky.social @fabriziobarca.bsky.social @fsaraceno.bsky.social
'Assunta questa concezione, e date le condizioni attuali, la battaglia per la giustizia fiscale è una battaglia di libertà.'
www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
@marioricciardi.bsky.social @fabriziobarca.bsky.social @fsaraceno.bsky.social
Giustizia o libertà. Quegli ostacoli alla patrimoniale
Se un sistema fiscale è diventato regressivo, la prima cosa da fare è tassare di più i ricchissimi. Il rimedio è banale, e ovviamente giusto: eppure non lo applichiamo. Quali ostacoli lo impediscono? ...
www.editorialedomani.it
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Qui parlo di tassa Zucman e idea classica di libertà:
'Assunta questa concezione, e date le condizioni attuali, la battaglia per la giustizia fiscale è una battaglia di libertà.'
www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
@marioricciardi.bsky.social @fabriziobarca.bsky.social @fsaraceno.bsky.social
'Assunta questa concezione, e date le condizioni attuali, la battaglia per la giustizia fiscale è una battaglia di libertà.'
www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
@marioricciardi.bsky.social @fabriziobarca.bsky.social @fsaraceno.bsky.social
Today presentation of my book at King's College Cambridge, 5.30 Keynes seminar room: www.instagram.com/p/DRZ50AcDBz2/
CSEP on Instagram: "This Monday 24th 5:30-6:30pm at Keynes Seminar Room, Kings College. Join us for a fascinating discussion about innovation, populism and contending theoretical approaches to freedom...
8 likes, 0 comments - csepecon on November 23, 2025: "This Monday 24th 5:30-6:30pm at Keynes Seminar Room, Kings College. Join us for a fascinating discussion about innovation, populism and contending...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Today presentation of my book at King's College Cambridge, 5.30 Keynes seminar room: www.instagram.com/p/DRZ50AcDBz2/
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
Artículo de un “think tanker” conservador estadounidense defendiendo a Franco, en el Wall Street Journal.
El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
@marujatorres.bsky.social
@mariaramirez.bsky.social
@robiols.bsky.social
El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
@marujatorres.bsky.social
@mariaramirez.bsky.social
@robiols.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Artículo de un “think tanker” conservador estadounidense defendiendo a Franco, en el Wall Street Journal.
El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
@marujatorres.bsky.social
@mariaramirez.bsky.social
@robiols.bsky.social
El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
@marujatorres.bsky.social
@mariaramirez.bsky.social
@robiols.bsky.social
@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social hello Jonathan, maybe I told you that I was writing this, which has just come out, and maybe it can interest you: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social hello Jonathan, maybe I told you that I was writing this, which has just come out, and maybe it can interest you: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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True freedom, @andreacapussela.bsky.social writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-called elite.
'The Republic of Innovation' shows how true freedom can foster a more innovative and prosperous society.
More: ow.ly/aGxr50XvP5b
'The Republic of Innovation' shows how true freedom can foster a more innovative and prosperous society.
More: ow.ly/aGxr50XvP5b
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
True freedom, @andreacapussela.bsky.social writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-called elite.
'The Republic of Innovation' shows how true freedom can foster a more innovative and prosperous society.
More: ow.ly/aGxr50XvP5b
'The Republic of Innovation' shows how true freedom can foster a more innovative and prosperous society.
More: ow.ly/aGxr50XvP5b
My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social)
These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved:
‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...
Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social)
These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved:
‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom, True freedom, Capussela writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-ca...
www.politybooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social)
These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved:
‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...
Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social)
These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved:
‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...
'40 years on, the left has still to find an answer to the big bang in the 1980s.'
In this book, out tomorrow, I suggest that a plausible answer might stem from combining classical liberty with Schumpeterian innovation: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this book, out tomorrow, I suggest that a plausible answer might stem from combining classical liberty with Schumpeterian innovation: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom, True freedom, Capussela writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-ca...
www.politybooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'40 years on, the left has still to find an answer to the big bang in the 1980s.'
In this book, out tomorrow, I suggest that a plausible answer might stem from combining classical liberty with Schumpeterian innovation: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this book, out tomorrow, I suggest that a plausible answer might stem from combining classical liberty with Schumpeterian innovation: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'GDPR is Europe’s greatest weapon against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference. Diluting it now, in the shadow of Donald Trump, would confirm Europe as a digital vassal of the US'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'GDPR is Europe’s greatest weapon against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference. Diluting it now, in the shadow of Donald Trump, would confirm Europe as a digital vassal of the US'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.'
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
'Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.'
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tunnels are underground too.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️
🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
buff.ly/geSIAGY
🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
buff.ly/geSIAGY
Branko Milanović – is neoliberalism being replaced by something more capitalist? - LSE Review of Books
The Great Global Transformation by Branko Milanović explores China's economic rise, a new elite class & neoliberalism being replaced by a new international order
buff.ly
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️
🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
buff.ly/geSIAGY
🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw
Read the review 👇
buff.ly/geSIAGY
Required reading: Sophie Bessis's essay on why the idea of Europe's 'judeo-christian' roots is 'une imposture': www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_civ...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
La civilisation judéo-chrétienne
www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Required reading: Sophie Bessis's essay on why the idea of Europe's 'judeo-christian' roots is 'une imposture': www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_civ...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
A brief interview with Bessis:
youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...
'Europe’s overt submission to Trump is emblematic of a broader malaise...They also routinely placate far-right forces at home. In doing so, they corrode the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law [etc.] – that they claim to uphold.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
'Europe’s overt submission to Trump is emblematic of a broader malaise...They also routinely placate far-right forces at home. In doing so, they corrode the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law [etc.] – that they claim to uphold.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.'
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.'
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity.
After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ
www.ft.com/content/11b9...
'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says.
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
September 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says.
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Reposted by Andrea Capussela
The richest capitalists & richest workers are increasingly the same people, writes @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
New Capitalism in America
The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people: replacing a class-based society, we now have an elite-ruled society
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The richest capitalists & richest workers are increasingly the same people, writes @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.
Next to Dido Aeneas looks really bad. She is both heroic and human
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Next to Dido Aeneas looks really bad. She is both heroic and human
Di fronte a Didone Enea davvero appare meschino. Che personaggio lei!
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Di fronte a Didone Enea davvero appare meschino. Che personaggio lei!
'Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover'
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Notes pour une autonomie républicaine européenne | Le Grand Continent
« L'alternative est face à nous, parfaitement claire : union ou vassalisation — autonomie ou servitude. » En retraçant les événements d'un été de capitulations européennes, Andrea Capussela montre to...
legrandcontinent.eu
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
'Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover'
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...
'Nobody knows how to reinvent 20th-century liberalism.'
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
America’s left cannot exploit Trump’s failures
The president’s genius is to keep pushing the Democrats into a reactive defence of the status quo
www.ft.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
'Nobody knows how to reinvent 20th-century liberalism.'
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social
If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as...
www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com
'For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts
Double-tap strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
'For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Tell me about her truth-telling on Gaza and the west bank
Not sure how accurate it is to call @kajakallas.bsky.social the EU’s top diplomat, but she’s something even more essential: the EU’s top truth-teller. While other leaders pretend there’s a peace process, she correctly says that Putin has offered no concessions & can’t be trusted to stick to a deal.
🤖 Proposed Ukraine land concessions are Putin's trap, EU's top diplomat tells BBC
Key points:
• Kaja Kallas warns in a BBC interview against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia....
#Concessions #Putin #Kaja
Source: BBC News | What are your thoughts?
Key points:
• Kaja Kallas warns in a BBC interview against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia....
#Concessions #Putin #Kaja
Source: BBC News | What are your thoughts?
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tell me about her truth-telling on Gaza and the west bank
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Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo:
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
L’Impero e le sue ombre: teologia e geopolitica nel mondo di Trump - Il Grand Continent
Una serie di tre dialoghi di alto livello organizzati al Forte di Bard che riuniranno alcune delle più prestigiose firme del Grand Continent e del giornalismo italiano.
legrandcontinent.eu
August 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo:
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...
legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...