Niccolò Machiavelli is trending. More than 500 years after writing his famous treatise The Prince, Machiavelli has re-emerged as one of Europe’s most popular political thinkers. And, indeed, his book – one of the earliest political ‘how to’ manuals – has some useful advice for economic policymakers at a time of extraordinarily confusing challenges.
Monetary authorities have turned to Machiavelli to help them understand the policy approach of the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi. France’s new economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, is probably using Machiavelli’s ideas – about which he wrote his master’s thesis – to help shape …read more
Source: European Voice
