Category: Economy - Page 7

Ireland, the EU and the Apple tax case

Ireland led the ‘race to the bottom’ on corporate taxation. The tide is beginning to turn.

It’s time finally to jettison the convenient claim that taxing the rich more would only reduce tax revenue.

The report on European ‘competitiveness’ is good on industrial strategy but poor from a social perspective.

Giorgia Meloni’s government is squandering a golden opportunity to reverse Italy’s economic decline.

Financial integration is not the problem, writes Peter Bofinger. It is the still national segmentation of government bonds.

The concentration of wealth is a global issue and it is getting worse.

The European Union can be the biggest winner from the United Nations tax convention.

In the face of a prolonged strike for union recognition, Tesla has turned posted workers into strike-breakers.

Labour’s mission-oriented industrial strategy for the UK requires a restructuring of how government operates.

Growth is falling, its rewards are ill-shared and it is bursting planetary boundaries. Time for a rethink.

Public assistance for firms must be rendered conditional on constraints on their freedom to move elsewhere.

There is no single future for the world of work—and it is up to policy-makers to shape it.

Legislation is needed to limit the length of subcontracting chains.

The far right offers no answers to the challenges Europe faces in reinvigorating its industry amid the digital and green transitions.

Multilateral development banks believe private investment can meet developing economies’ climate and development needs.

Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.