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From Milan to Paris, from Rome to New York, city officials are the veritable prime movers of summers in cities. Summer initiatives leveraging parks and outdoor venues make events feel closer to nature, encouraging tourists to come and residents to stay

Texting solidarity messages is widespread, but mobile fundraising has now made the leap toward new technologies such as NFC and check-in services to increase donor engagement. Young, phone-savvy users in particular respond well to such appeals

The shelving of austerity policies is hampered by the very structure of the Economic and Monetary Union. Initiatives for growth require public investment, but can the current system endure if members adopt diverse polices on fiscal matters and public debt?

Banking union, fiscal solidarity, immigration policy: these are the three dossiers Italy should focus on to regain its European stature. To push reforms through, Italy must leverage its new parliamentary importance during the semester of its presidency

After the natural sciences gained freedom from religious imposition, purely rational thinking was also applied to the social sciences. Economics over time lost its moral component, and material gain became an end in itself - Adam Smith would not approve

The process of customer empowerment describes how the informed consumers are wielding increasing influence, but end up being dependent on the opinion of their peers. They use corporate information less and get more from a fairly small, like-minded group