The price of war

ASERI, as part of the ASERIncontra review , is pleased to present the volume

The price of war
The economic consequences of international crises

by Paolo Balduzzi and Andrea Bignami
Publisher Countries

Monday 1 December 2025, 5.30 p.m.
in ASERI, Via San Vittore 18, Milan

live streaming is also planned

Introduces:
Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI

Speakers:
Paolo Balduzzi, Researcher and lecturer in Finance, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Andrea Bignami, SkyTG24 Editor-in-Chief

Maria Anghileri - President of Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria

The book:

On February 24, 2022, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine reignited international tensions, upsetting economic balances and markets. Mario Draghi, then Italy's prime minister, flatly rejected the idea that Europe was entering a war economy or that it was inevitably destined to do so.
Today, a few years later, critical reflection is necessary: have Europe and Italy really managed to maintain that economic stability far from the concept of war economy, as Draghi hoped? And again: to what extent are the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine, the muscular policy of the United States made up of tariffs and strategies on NATO, and the new geopolitical tensions, particularly those in the Middle East, conditioning and will affect global economies? Finally, what will be the concrete effects of the massive European defense investment plan, the ReArm Europe/Readiness 2030, and the projects for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine on the economies of EU countries? And above all, at what price?
This book offers an original and rigorous look at the economic dynamics of wars, to better understand the conflicts of today and yesterday and imagine the crises of tomorrow.
 

Authors:
Paolo Balduzzi is a researcher and lecturer in Finance at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan), he has taught at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been a member of ministerial commissions for the review of expenditure and differentiated federalism. A freelance journalist, he is a member of the editorial staff of the economic information website Lavoce.info and since 2017 he has been a columnist at Il Messaggero

Andrea Bignami is editor-in-chief of the economic editorial staff of Sky tg24, author and television presenter. A graduate in Political Economy from Università Cattolica, he is a media fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. He began his career with Alan Friedman's Miaeconomia website and, subsequently, with the La7 program of the same name, hosted by Sarah Varetto. From 2008 to 2014 he worked in Rai, first as a correspondent for Giovanni Floris' Ballarò and then as the author of Giovanni Minoli's La Storia Siamo Noi.
 

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