Profit-driven inflation—the policy implications
It’s time to strengthen labour in the face of inflation, not to continue trying to weaken it.
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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.
Autonomy and intrinsic motivation spur productivity and creativity in workplaces where time is flexible and relationships good.
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.
Jayati Ghosh writes that, as with much else, bilateral tax treaties binding rich and poor countries are not equal partnerships.
Labour shortages following the pandemic have increased most and are most severe in jobs with lower wages and poorer conditions.
The UN has warned that ‘humanity’s very survival’ is threatened. Radical reform of international finance is required.
Workers are under tremendous pressure amid the cost-of-living crisis. But trade unions are showing resilience to inspire.
Having battled one crisis after another, a fresh round of austerity could be the last straw for workers.
Recent developments in artificial intelligence have rekindled fears of technological unemployment—fuelled by technological determinism.
A crude, one-club monetary policy has already caused bank collapses. More damage will follow more interest-rate hikes.
The European Commission’s proposed reform of the electricity market would be a sticking plaster for a failing system.
With further bank failures, tough regulation is urgent, so society is no longer held hostage by finance.