A great equaliser
Branko Milanovic writes that the coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience its daily stigmas.
Advancing gender equality requires a new fiscal pact
Women’s strikes today draw attention to the need for global tax reform, so that investment in services can ease the burden of women’s domestic labour.
‘A worker is a worker’: the trade unions organising migrants across Europe
Migrant workers are by nature more diverse than the indigenous workers among whom they find themselves. Organising strategies need to be diverse too.
The party of discontent
The US Republican Party has made an accommodation to Donald Trump its leaders may come to regret.
Strong children, strong democracy
Educational research models children as autonomous actors. Education policy, notably in Germany, still however aims to guide innate capacities into adulthood.
Hard truths about the eurozone crisis
There has been little honest reflection within the European Commission about the eurozone crisis. Until now.
It’s now or never for national data strategies
As a critical resource that is unlike anything that came before it, big data demands a robust policy response.
Brexit and the risks of economic nationalism
In talking about their future relationship with the UK, EU leaders may want to mind their language.
A European Union climate agenda for COP26
The EU should bring a new climate agenda to Glasgow—including a roadmap for emerging nations to embrace a future beyond fossil fuels.
Including racism in the discussion of wellbeing at work
The sociologist David Williams has said racism makes us sick and this is also true at work. How can we create workplaces which promote wellbeing for all?
With the UK’s European door closed, it’s open season for xenophobia
Paul Mason explains how, even after the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration.
Why EU action on minimum wages is so controversial—yet so necessary
The opening of debate on minimum wages across the EU has precipitated a Nordic union reaction against incursions on collective bargaining.
New firms for a new era
Societies should not allow firms' owners and their agents to drive the discussion about reforming corporate governance.
Uber, employment and the gig economy
Whatever the company might wish to call it, Uber’s relationship with its workers is one of employment.
‘Fridays for Keynesianism’
Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies and Peter Bofinger argues the 2008 crisis must bring the demise of neoclassical economics—which still doesn’t.