EU Company Mobility Package: Implications For Social Europe
Will the ‘freedom of establishment’ – one of the basic freedoms in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) – mean that
Economy
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Is Marx Still Relevant?
From 1949, when Mao Zedong’s communists triumphed in China’s civil war, until the collapse of the Berlin Wall 40 years later, Karl Marx’s historical significance
The Premature Death Of Marx
Most Marxists and anti-Marxists alike probably fail to realise that the highest praise for capitalism is to be found in Marx and Engels, Manifesto of
The Dutch Patient
All over the world the Dutch retirement system is considered one of the best but at home it has come under fire. Serious questions are
The World Is Changing: Ten Years After The Great Recession
A decade after the outbreak of the global economic crisis, the deepest since the Great Depression, a question remains open: what has changed in the
New Tax Paradigm In The Digital Age
Much of the western world is experiencing a social crisis. Basic public services—in the UK, for instance, the National Health Service—are set at unsustainably low
The Lesser Evil For The Eurozone
It was not supposed to happen like this. The formation of a new German government took so long that it was only after the Italian
We Need More Social Investment But No More PPPs
Europe needs to spend €1.5 trillion on social infrastructure between now and 2030 to redress the massive underspend over recent years and to address the
Left Should Stop Equating Labour With Work
It is intellectually excusable for those on the political right to want to restrict the meaning of work to labour, or income-earning activity. It is
Moving Beyond “Capitalism”
I wish we would stop using the word Capitalism. It is a 19th-century term, derived from 19th-century economic philosophy. But today people who would run
Quality Of Life In Germany Is More Than Just Making Ends Meet
Discussions on Germany at European level invariably focus on the country’s strong economic performance and how this relates to the labour market and broader society.
Time For A European Dialogue On The Platform Economy
Digital platform operators and workers need to talk, seriously. As the platform economy grows it is extending far beyond the well-known names such as Uber
Outline Of A New World Currency System
The financial and economic crisis and the drastic situation in the Eurozone have shown the limitations of liberalised markets in ensuring – of their own
Berlusconi’s Flat Tax Fallacy
“A flat tax is for a flat earth”: This was my answer to Grzegorz Kolodko, Poland’s Minister of Finance and First Deputy Premier for the
Restoring European Solidarity
Strange to say, but between the international debt crisis of the 1980s and the Great Recession of 2008, Europe has shown an overall GDP growth
Economics For Democratic Societies: Reframing The Free Market Debate
Back in 2006 I tried to start a project titled Economics for Democratic and Open Societies. At that time, I sent proposals to several foundations.