The Incomplete Currency

Acknowledgments

This book is the result of the work of many minds, who have contributed over time to the sedimentation of ideas, insights and research.

My first acknowledgment goes to the person that has made the birth of The Incomplete Currency possible, the General Secretary of the CGIL. Susanna Camusso. By expressing the undeferrable need of a serious and transversal analysis, Susanna directed my research towards the Eurozone issues with constant interest, support and critical review.

I would like to thank the General Secretary of the FISAC Agostino Megale for, amongst other things, a significant contribution to the analysis and interpretation of the data. As a passionate researcher and an expert in “numbers”, Agostino has succeeded in transforming ideas that were, in my mind, only a chaotic jumble of figures and trends into clear and understandable concepts.

I certainly cannot forget the continuous support of the former Confederal Secretary of the CGIL, Nicoletta Rocchi, who was always available to read, comment and reorder the massive amount of data and analysis that had been inexorably accumulating during the evolution of the Eurozone crisis.

A big, big thank you goes to Rosario Strazzullo, coordinator of the tertiary and services national department of the CGIL. This book would not be what it is without the endless exchange of ideas, opinions, impressions between us and the always constructive interventions during the finishing and rewording of complex concepts.

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