Pavlos Roufos

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Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.

“Corso Ercole I d’Este is so beautiful, its tourist attraction is so great, that the Socialist-Communist coalition, responsible for the city government of Ferrara for more than fifteen years, has realised the necessity of leaving it untouched, defending it with all severity against any building or commercial speculation, preserving, in other words, its original aristocratic character.”

Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Fizzi-Continis, 1962

"The Russian word ‘perestroika’, as Bartel relates, which means something like ‘readjustment’, was first used by Soviet analysts to describe austerity policies in the West in the 1970s before it was applied domestically in the 1980s." From Thomas Meany's NLR review of Bartel's "Triumph of Broken promises".