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The Italian laboratory. Rethinking debt in viral times

Once again Italy has become the testing grounds for processes and experiences that have become global. The coronavirus has given rise to a completely novel phenomenon, which is not just a political or economic event in itself, but a pandemic whose ferocity and rapid transmission requires extraordinary measures. Italy has become the avant-garde of the West, the first to be fully implicated after the initial outbreak in China. Italy is the “laboratory” of the West.

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