“The sharing economy amplifies the worst excesses of the dominant economic model: it is neoliberalism on steroids”
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Scott Baum: The Gig Economy – a shameful failure of the neoliberal project
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Engels’s Second Theory: Technology, Warfare and the Growth of the State
Friedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself. Born in 1820 in the Rhineland town […]
EU politics
ICIJ – Fears of ‘significant deterrent’ for whistleblowers as top EU court quashes Lux Leaks case
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Luxembourg’s treatment of whistleblower Raphael Halet “struck a fair balance” between protecting his freedom of expression and the rights of PwC, despite objections from two dissenting judges. […]
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory: Power and profit during a pandemic
In a pandemic the pharmaceutical industry is hailed as a saviour; yet the industry is using the crisis to lock in its problematic, profit-maximising model. Pushing for public money with no-strings-attached, and stronger monopoly patent […]
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