Our Mezzogiorno

<p class=ql-align-justify>This collection presents the group's mission statement in its general conception and shows how it has played out in terms of analysis and policy initiative. Possibilist democratic and anti-verticalist in inspiration it is centered on the Mezzogiorno the case under study. But the Mezzogiorno also represents the archetype of a middle-of-the-scale situation-it is not underdeveloped but nor is it the democratic market-economy society that it would like to become . . . Its ambition is to achieve a mastery of the situation and a progressive reduction of hierarchical structures 'through processes that enhance what is beautiful and good . . .'</p><p class=ql-align-justify>-from the Introduction</p><p></p>