Economics
Clea Bourne – AI, Millennials, and Monopolies
Clea Bourne looks at developments of the tech sector.
Monopolies
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax
Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here
Finance
The Seattle Times: Amazon puts high-profile Seattle plans on ice over proposal to tax large employers
Whatever happened to the high-tech heroes? Maybe it was just fancy public relations work to hide the true destructiveness of monopolists. Read here
Finance
The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett
Book review by David Beer Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]
Economics
The Guardian: From Seattle to Luxembourg: how tax schemes shaped Amazon
The Guardian is doing a series concerning Amazon. This is just one article. Read here
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast April 2018
In this month’s Taxcast: Tax justice, women and UN human rights conventions: how we may be beginning to hold governments to account. Also: we discuss scandal-hit Facebook’s checks on whether overseas influencers are funding political […]
Finance
Mail Online: Several Amazon workers ‘have considered suicide since joining the company’, poll reveals while warehouse staff claim they have urinated into bottles because they’re afraid of ‘time-wasting’
Manchester Capitalism is returning to Britain after being resurrected in the United States Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Left propaganda that the state is powerless – continues
Bill Mitchell takes a recent article in The Guardian, Rana Dasgupta – The demise of the nation state, to debunk the leftist denigration of the national state as an essential instrument in pushing back neo-liberalism. […]
Finance
Thomas Frank: Trump’s enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn’t defend Amazon
Substitute Brexit and Remain and you have the same story. We let ourselves for emotional reasons and political laziness accept binary decisions. The world is not black and white or Manichean as the intellectuals call […]
Finance
The Nation: Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market
This is the story of how a monopoly destroys the free market, affecting all of us. Read here