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Giovanni Gentile - Una economia nuova
Written by Axel Ritenis    Thursday, 02 December 2010 10:50    PDF Print E-mail

 

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During the course of the Florens Forum, Axel Ritenis, Editor of Connoisseur Magazine was fortunate enough to meet and interview the man who conceived   The Florens Forum 2010 Project, Giovanni Gentile, president of the Organizational Committee and Confindustria Firenze.

1) Buon giorno Giovanni, congratulations on the success of the Forum, You have an impressive list of Speakers, Delegates and participants, it’s a huge job to organize such a project. What is the thinking and rationale behind it?

 

In 2008 the worldwide economic crisis caused to the overall economic picture to witness losses ranging from forty to fifty percent. We needed to find a new kind of winning economy. We live in an area that we really need to work on, Florence is an immense cultural storehouse, but it seemed that all of this wealth was not being used in the right way. We need to reinterpret it – reinvent it.
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