The future of social democracy has been a perennial debate but the coronavirus crisis has provided a shock: progressive politics will not be the same again.
What the US central bank has been doing to address the coronavirus crisis is precisely what is needed to tackle climate change.
AI might seem neutral and technical but it poses a differential challenge to female jobs and can be imbued with insidious gender biases.
After almost a decade, EU-wide inequality finally regained its previous low of 2009 due to relatively strong growth in the poorer member states between the Baltic and the Balkans.
It may not have been thought of as an antidote to the coronavirus but collective bargaining is protecting workers’ health and security against its ravages.
Human rights, including social and economic rights, may seem to some a luxury during a crisis. But that is when they are needed most.
The Eurogroup’s decision to reject corona bonds will leave destabilising political scars.
The Eurogroup needed a highest-common-factor agreement to match the coronavirus crisis but intergovernmentalism left it with the lowest common denominator.
By Einstein’s purported definition, madness would be repeating the errors of the eurozone crisis and expecting a different outcome—eurobonds would break with that.
Thomas Theobald and Silke Tober
Eurobonds are needed to anchor macroeconomic stability and offer a safe path out of the coronavirus storm.
After the 2008 financial crisis, we learned the hard way what happens when governments flood the economy with unconditional liquidity, rather than laying the foundation for a sustainable and inclusive recovery.
As AI enters the workplace, we need to reflect upon the criteria by which human work is evaluated and human subjectivity depicted.
Continuing our series on artificial intelligence, AI can augment human work—if workers’ representatives have a voice in implementing it.
The same socially oriented approach must be taken to defeat the coronavirus and, over the longer run, stop climate catastrophe.
Paul Mason explains how Boris Johnson’s idiosyncratic initial response to the coronavirus stemmed from his particularistic empire nostalgia.