Today the social sciences are called to a very important task: finding the answers to the global challenges that the citizens of the whole world are facing: the increase in economic inequality, the increase in the number of autocracies and countries with illiberal democracies, the aging of the world population. To do this, a scientific approach is needed which, by leveraging the knowledge specific to each discipline (demography, economics, political science, sociology, history), is capable of proposing an overall vision which integrates the various kinds of knowledge through an interdisciplinary methodology.

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