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Austerity

Marlon Ettinger: After Raising the Pension Age, Emmanuel Macron Is Planning “Unprecedented Austerity”

April 19, 2023 Ben 0

‘Emmanuel Macron has pushed through a rise in the pension age despite vast protests. In a televised address on Monday night, he said he’d “heard the anger” in the streets — yet his government’s new […]

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EU politics

Laura Lambert, Martin Lemberg-Pedersen: Europe outsourcing asylum to African countries is a terrible idea – there are alternatives

April 19, 2023 Ben 0

Denmark and the UK have led the way in seeking to export the problem of refugees and economic migrants to the global south Laura Lambert is a Senior Researcher at the University of Freiburg. Martin […]

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Climate Crisis

Paula Andrés – Water politics: How Spain’s drought became a battle ground for rural votes

April 19, 2023 Ben 0

How the politics of climate change and drought is playing out in the south of Spain. In Euractiv. Read the article HERE.

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Neo-Liberalism in the EU

José Ernesto Novaez: Marxism and Colonialism – An Interview with Vijay Prashad

April 19, 2023 Ben 0

An interesting interview with one of India’s most important marxist intellectuals about neoocolonialism and the crisis of western hegemony José Ernesto Novaez is a journalist and poet. He is the coordinator of the Cuban chapter […]

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Gig Economy

Anna-Elisabeth Hampel, Eva Luise Krause: What our research reveals about platform work, and how it should be regulated

April 17, 2023 Ben 0

The ‘Equal opportunities in platform work’ (‘Chancengerechte Plattformarbeit’) project released two studies in February and March on the relationship between platform work and social exclusion/participation. The authors write for the Gig Economy Project summarising their […]

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EU politics

Thomas Fazi: Does Europe need to split?

April 17, 2023 Ben 0

Thomas Fazi writes in ‘Unherd’ on the growing East-West divide in the European Union. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

John P. Ruehl: How the war in Ukraine is shaking up the global arms industry

April 17, 2023 Ben 0

Arms exports are surging, with German and French weapons producers among those to be profiting from war John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic […]

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Economics

Jordi Schröder Bosch – Walking the tight-rope: the trade-offs between financial and price stability

April 17, 2023 Ben 0

European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde’s claim that there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability is evidently untrue and may come back to haunt her. Jordi Schröder Bosch is a researcher at […]

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Gig Economy

Anna-Elisabeth Hampel, Eva Luise Krause: Was unsere Forschung über Plattformarbeit zeigt und wie sie reguliert werden sollte

April 13, 2023 Ben 0

Das Projekt “Chancengerechte Plattformarbeit” hat im Februar und März zwei Studien über die Beziehung zwischen Plattformarbeit und sozialer Ausgrenzung/Partizipation veröffentlicht. Die Autorinnen schreiben für das Gig Economy Project, fassen ihre Ergebnisse zusammen und erläutern, was […]

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Finance

#ReWolt: Why are Wolt strikes spreading across Europe?

April 7, 2023 Ben 0

Strikes at Wolt have taken place in at least eight European countries since the start of the year, with four occurring in the past week. Why are the riders taking action now? The Gig Economy […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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