When, upon Mario Monti becoming Italy’s Premier in 2011, we didn’t hesitate in opining that it, he, with austerity writ large on his flag, was the worst that could happen to the country, we were received in many quarters as an extravagant and a provocateur. For Monti, so was the general consensus running at the time, held the promise of saving Italy from the financial abyss and by the same...
