He managed to explain monetary policies of the Central Bank through Alice in Wonderland, the investment choices based on the behavior of the Cinderella’s stepmother e public debt with the spaceship “Morte Nera” of Star Wars.
Luciano Canova, economist and popularizer (and TikTok star), he recently came out in bookstores with his Fabulous economy (HarperCollins), in which he demonstrates how economics is a matter that concerns our most usual habits, much closer and more approachable than you think.
In a simple and direct way, the author reveals some simple mechanisms, with practical examples and irony, thus explaining to everyone what the spread is, how expenses are modulated, how it is possible that there are still differences in compensation based on the kind.
«Fabulous economy“, Explains the author,” he uses fairy tales to decrypt the code of our uncertainties and tell us beautiful stories that, first of all, help us to better understand what is happening in our reality as often disappointed citizens, with the very intention of contributing , in a small way, to make us become protagonists of our actions “.
In this video, exclusively for Vanityfair.it, Luciano Canova talks about superhero salaries. On Batman he has few doubts: “He has a salary of 100 million euros and a house (Wayne Manor) with a cadastral value of 600 million euros.” But what can we say about Spider-Man? “He’s not doing very well: he struggles with precarious contracts, being a freelance photographer.” And so, after a few quick calculations, as is his habit, he arrives at a food for thought: “Maybe a progressive reshaping of the rates and inheritance tax might be a good idea.”
* LUCIANO CANOVA is an economist who deals with quality of life and happiness, with a particular eye towards Big Data and the innovative use of economic data on well-being. He teaches Behavioral Economics at the MEDEA master of the Enrico Mattei School, the first post-graduate training school founded in Italy in 1957 by Enrico Mattei, and is a Teaching Assistant at the Luigi Bocconi Commercial University, where he graduated. He collaborates with various scientific publications and has published various books including: Pop Economy (Hoepli, 2015), Il meter della happiness (Mondadori, 2019), When the ocean gets angry (Egea, 2020).
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