“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 . . .’”