il cangatto is an independent study circle on political economy. We run small, serious workshops on the questions that decide how our economies are governed — industrial policy, money, work, Europe — and we sit leading academics and policymakers at the same table as students, researchers and citizens. No lectures from a stage: a text, a guest, a room, and two hours of proper conversation.
Current & upcoming workshops
Series
Autumn 2026
Current
The Return of Industrial Policy
States, markets and the direction of investment
Five workshops on why governments across the world are once again steering their economies — and what it means for competition, climate and democracy.
Spring 2026
Past
Europe and the Fiscal Question
Rules, debt and the future of the Union
Our inaugural series on the European fiscal framework, its reform and the politics of common borrowing.
Spring 2027
Upcoming
Work, Ownership and Power
Labour in the twenty-first century firm
A series co-hosted with the Institute for Economic Democracy on platforms, unions, cooperatives and the changing shape of the firm.
Winter 2027
Upcoming
Money, Central Banks and Democracy
Who decides the price of money?
From the gold standard to digital currencies: how the institutions that manage money were built, and whether they can be governed democratically.