Reading the recent EU Commission Evaluation on European Works Councils is like watching this video of a Dutch fourth division soccer match: good tackle, direct run on goal, the keeper goes down, the … Read More
Columns & Interviews
Turkey’s New Regime And Its Neoliberal Foundations
Recent political and economic developments in Turkey have been worrying for Western governments for some time. However, busy with their own political crises, governments have been either slow or … Read More
Meeting The Migration Challenge And Reforming Capitalism Through Mutual Solidarity
How would you characterise the migration issue today? How has it become such a hot topic, and how do you think it’s likely to develop in the future?At the moment, obviously, public policy on … Read More
A European Super-PAC To Take On Bannon’s Illiberal Shock Troops
The 2019 elections for the European Parliament boil down to a war between supporters of EU integration, multilateralism and liberal values, and those who aim at a Europe of illiberal polities, often … Read More
Brexit Is Dying. Time For A People’s Vote
Brexit will achieve what several dark and diminutive characters from history have tried, and failed, to do: draw Great Britain into the throes of grim continental vassalage. With Brexit, the EU will … Read More
Trump Attacks US Workers And Labor Unions
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 ruling (Janus v. AFSCME) struck a blow to labor unions’ ability to collect membership dues and made international headlines. But in a quieter fashion the Trump … Read More
Blogs
Why Such Disparity Between Unemployment Rates In Europe?
Eurostat has just published its latest unemployment figures. For the EU and Eurozone. Overall, they show continuing progress though youth unemployment remains seriously high.But the statistics do … Read More
Will The Grass Be Greener For The Workers?
What are ‘green jobs’? According to the International Labour Organization, they are “decent jobs that contribute to preserve or restore the environment, be they in traditional sectors such as … Read More
Stiglitz Advocates A Dual Currency System In Italy But Why Not For The Whole Eurozone?
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize winner for economics, has recently written an article titled “Can the euro be saved?”. He wrote: The euro may be approaching another crisis. Italy, the eurozone’s … Read More
Trump And Brexit
As Trump makes clear, the UK can choose US rules or EU rules. Brexit is about having no say in either.Of course every Leave voter is an individual with his or her own motives. But if you had to … Read More
Decentralised Collective Bargaining: Oversold
Many international economic institutions share the idea that collective bargaining should take place at the level of individual companies. For example, the OECD, as far back as its 1994 Jobs Strategy, … Read More
Wage-Productivity Gap: Four Tales From The Eurozone
Over the last two years, economic expansion in the euro area has gathered pace. So far, improving economic conditions and falling unemployment has only translated into higher wages to a limited … Read More
Talks & Conversations
The Body Market, What Money Can’t Buy
Should you be able to sell your organs, or sell your body for sex? “The Body Market” explores the markets for selling your body parts and potentially your dignity. The director of the London School of … Read More
The Walrus Quota, What Money Can’t Buy
Market mechanisms may be efficient, but they may also change the meaning of the goods exchanged. Should we pay children to read, or pay countries to take our share of refugees? Does having tradable … Read More
Davos-Man Is Finally Being Challenged
Journalist and author of the best-selling book Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner, described in the New York Times as " a sprawling, engaging and at times infuriating feminist polemic", Katrine Marcal, in … Read More
Portugal: From Sick Man To Poster Boy
As finance minister, Mário Centeno is a key figure in Portugal at a time when the Portuguese economy is "especially interesting and, in many ways, especially successful": with unemployment halved from … Read More
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