Category: Economy - Page 12

Taking inequality seriously—and tackling it seriously

Rising inequality is a challenge for the multilateral system, Jayati Ghosh writes, which must first measure it properly.

Economists and political leaders at multilateral institutions have finally accepted profits are a primary driver of inflation.

In France the debate is moving from longer to better working lives, Sofia Fernandes writes, but this is a Europe-wide challenge.

EU ‘strategic autonomy’ requires a revitalised industrial policy which goes beyond the national container.

Not just the AI Act but the platform-work directive will be critical for human controls on automated management.

It’s time to strengthen labour in the face of inflation, not to continue trying to weaken it.

Competition policy has been based on a presumption of market equilibrium. Mushrooming corporate power has passed it by.

The low-cost carrier has presented a petition to the European Commission attacking the right to strike.

Asserting the need for further interest rate rises, Peter Bofinger writes, is not the same as evidencing them.

Corporate due diligence is not just about auditing. Key to sustaining people and planet, ambition is required.

The proposed new rules would give member states more role in defining their ‘fiscal paths’—just not parliaments.

What the European Commission proposes makes sense as far as it goes. But that is not nearly far enough.

Three years of pandemic-related disruptions could herald the most significant labour-market transformation since the dawn of industry.

Providing affordable housing is not only doing the right thing. There is an economic spinoff for everyone.

In 1991, Belarus did not join the Baltic states in striking out independently from the Soviet Union. Now the jury is in.

The good news is most ‘q-commerce’ workers have employment contracts. The bad news is they still get squeezed.