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Stronger labor unions could do a lot of good
It’s pretty well known that U.S. workers have lost a lot of bargaining power over the past few decades. Wage gains, for example, haven’t kept pace with rising productivity. Clearly, workers have been unable to take home a fair share of the new value they were creating. Why? One big potential culprit is the decline […]
L’appello degli scienziati sul clima
15 mila scienziati di 184 paesi hanno sottoscritto un solenne messaggio sullo stato del pianeta, invitando l’umanità a cambiare modello di vita per evitare “una perdita catastrofica di biodiversità”
L’auto elettrica e la posta in gioco
Negli ultimi mesi la questione del passaggio dai veicoli a propulsione tradizionale a quelli elettrici è venuta fortemente alla ribalta nel mondo. Una questione che suscita molte riflessioni e apre diversi scenari
The fatal flaw of neoliberalism: it’s bad economics
As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over cultural norms, and private entrepreneurship over collective action. It has been used to describe a wide range of phenomena – from Augusto Pinochet to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, […]
Nuovi diritti, per una nuova polis
Anche i dati sono beni comuni. Quelli amministrativi, ma anche quelli produciamo ogni giorno attraverso piattaforme proprietarie. Il significato e le implicazioni dei cambiamenti in corso nella raccolta di saggi “Il nostro diritto digitale alla città” a cura di Openpolis
Getting Tough on the Corporations Behind the Opioid Crisis
The withdrawal of Tom Marino’s nomination as national drug czar is a reminder of the power of whistle-blowing and aggressive investigative reporting, while the fact that he was named in the first place is a reminder of the hollowness of the Trump’s Administration’s commitments to draining the swamp and to seriously addressing the opioid epidemic […]
Global Economy’s Stubborn Reality: Plenty of Work, Not Enough Pay
In the three-plus decades since Ola Karlsson began painting houses and offices for a living, he has seen oil wealth transform the Norwegian economy. He has participated in a construction boom that has refashioned Oslo, the capital. He has watched the rent climb at his apartment in the center of the city www.nytimes.com
Nobel 2017: Thaler e le contraddizioni della “spinta gentile”
Nobel 2017 per le scienze economiche assegnato a Richard Thaler dell’Università di Chicago, per i suoi contributi allo sviluppo dell’economia comportamentale. Una branca di ricerca promettente che tuttavia Thaler non sgancia dall’ideale normativo della teoria neoclassica, generando alcune aporie anche sul terreno delle sue proposte di politica economica. A cominciare dalla “spinta gentile” dei governi […]
Déjà Voodoo
A Trump administration staffed by plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves. But the Republicans’ proposed tax reform is a bigger gift to corporations and the ultra-rich than most had anticipated www.project-syndicate.org