It’s a country.” And this is one of those moments of great wisdom that every once in a while comes out of popular culture. And the young guy says “I was really stupid, I thought it would be cool to just melt the system.” And Bruce Willis replies, “It’s not a system.

In it, Bruce Willis has to ally with a young computer hacker, who at a point in the movie realizes that he helped, with his computer skills, the terrorists who are creating disasters. Well, one of the movies in that series – not the best I have to say – is called, in Italian “Vivere o Morire” and in English “Live Free or Die Hard”. I particularly like the movies of Bruce Willis, the Die Hard movies – I don’t know if anyone else here watches those – I see that some of you do, great. First, what do we mean by countries, by nations such as those in the Americas or those here in Europe? And, second, what do we mean by capitalism? So if we can specify what we mean by these two things, we can reason about the difference in how capitalism relates to the different places.įirst, regarding countries, being American I like to stay up late and, after my wife and daughter have gone to bed, I stay up and watch action films.

Speaking of Capitalism in America and in Europe we first have to be precise about two things. I want to start by thanking Luigi Chiaro and President Valenti of Progetto Formazione Continua for the opportunity to be here this evening to speak and exchange ideas with you all and to thank the founder of the association who is here with us this evening for this great, really wonderful initiative.

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