Our Mezzogiorno

"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 . . .'"-from the "Introduction"