Western capitalism came close to collapsing in 2007/2008, and has still not recovered. And the vast majority of economists had not understood what was happening. The recently released book “Rethinking Capitalism” takes a deeper look at both failures www.isigrowth.eu
A string of emails released under Freedom of Information laws to WhatDoTheyKnow and seen by openDemocracy demonstrate the full scale of the loophole in Britain’s electoral rules which allowed Grimes and Vote Leave to spend this extraordinary sum – and the worrying implications it has for British democracy www.opendemocracy.net
Billionaire Russian oligarchs and Ukrainian elites accused of corruption are among hundreds of people who have acquired EU passports under controversial “golden visa” schemes, the Guardian reported. The government of Cyprus has raised more than €4bn since 2013 by providing citizenship to the super rich, granting them the right to live and work throughout Europe […]
Mercoledì 6 settembre alle 14 verrà proiettato in anteprima speciale a Roma il film “L’Ordine delle cose” di Andrea Segre, nelle sale dal 7 settembre. All’evento interverranno lo stesso Andrea Segre, Igiaba Scego e Luigi Manconi e saranno inoltre presenti Giuseppe Battiston e Roberto Citran, attori del film e Emma Bonino, Carlotta Sami e Padre […]
Professor Robert Reich talks at Google about the impact of automation & artificial intelligence on our economy. He also provides a recommendation on how we can ensure future technologies benefit the entire economy, not just those at the top www.socialeurope.eu
Britain will end the free movement of labour immediately after Brexit and introduce restrictions to deter all but highly-skilled EU workers under detailed proposals set out in a Home Office document leaked to the Guardian. The 82-page paper sets out for the first time how Britain intends to approach the politically charged issue of immigration, […]
Data is quickly becoming the 21st-century version of oil – a resource essential to the entire global economy, and the focus of intense struggle to control it. Platforms, as spaces in which two or more groups interact, provide what is in effect an oil rig for data. Every interaction on a platform becomes another data […]
The first thing you see when you walk into the offices of the New America Foundation in Washington is the Eric Schmidt Ideas Lab, a space named after the executive chairman of Google’s parent company. Google, Mr. Schmidt and his family’s foundation are the principal funders of that think tank www.nytimes.com
La lezione che non si vuole trarre dalla crisi di dieci anni fa è che occorre regolamentare il sistema finanziario perché, altrimenti, non solo esso non è capace di autoregolarsi, ma al contrario determina delle dinamiche assai pericolose per l’intero sistema economico www.nonconimieisoldi.org
Il racconto della Roma umana e solidale a Piazza Indipendenza, prima, durante e dopo lo sgombero della settimana scorsa. “Io c’ero, non sono autoreferenziale, ma io stavo li, seduta per terra, l’unico utensile per dare una mano era il mio telefono, chiamare persone, fare rete, cercare di costituire un gruppo che potesse fornire un supporto, […]