Abstract

In Bologna, small is beautiful

Today's Republicans argue that the U.S. government has become irrelevant in the age of the global economy. Pensions, environmental regulations, welfare all must shrink or disappear to allow corporations to compete better in the world marketplace. Government can play a constructive role, they argue, by offering tax breaks to kindly, responsible corporations that work hard and play by the rules. To see that there are other options, one has to travel to the richest city in Italy: Bologna Communist Bologna. Polls confirm it as the favorite city of all Italians. Polls confirm it as the favorite city of all Italians. The historic center, with its soaring medieval towers, renaissance palazzos and Baroque porticoes, is among the best-preserved in Italy. And perhaps even more remarkable, working-class Bolognese continue to live there.