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The Fed’s $16 Trillion Bailouts Under-reported

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read The media’s inscrutable brush-off of the Government Accounting Office’s recently released audit of the Federal Reserve has raised many questions about the Fed’s goings-on since the financial crisis began in 2008. The audit of the Fed’s emergency lending programs … Continue reading →

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Empowering Youth through National Policies

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Today’s young generation experiences widening social gaps and faces manifold challenges: it is the young who – perhaps more so than any other social group – encounter the uncertainties and risks generated by the process of economic and cultural … Continue reading →

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Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Social innovation is an important component of being resilient – new ideas will keep a society adaptable, flexible and learning. Therefore, the better the understanding of the conditions that enable innovations not only to emerge, but to take hold, become … Continue reading →

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Public Sector Policy and Strategies for Facilitating Social Innovation

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

With numerous intractable problems facing the world today, calls for innovative solutions have become increasingly commonplace. Frequently, these calls are accompanied by suggestions that government policies need to be responsive, flexible, and adaptive to keep pace with the rapidity of … Continue reading →

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