For the first time since much of the world economy was re-organised into global supply chains, the International Labour Organisation will feature a discussion about how that economy should or shouldn’t be regulated in the interests of decent work and social justice www.opendemocracy.net
Mr. Trump’s campaign has engendered impassioned debate about the nature of his appeal and warnings from critics on the left and the right about the potential rise of fascism in the United States. More strident opponents have likened Mr. Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini www.nytimes.com
Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion. The increase in inequality engendered by financial openness and austerity might itself undercut growth, the very thing that the neoliberal agenda is intent on boosting www.imf.org
At the dawn of the 20th century, the economy was already well into a fundamental transformation of the labor force, as industry replaced farming and crafts as the primary source of new jobs. The shift was painful. But the United States emerged from the turmoil far more prosperous and powerful www.nytimes.com
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents, in order to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty. This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. Check out all the leaks here […]
Political leaders and billionaires, drug traffickers and law firms, mafia bosses and big banks, celebrities and arms dealers, what do they all have in common? Money, power, and Panama. Money hidden somewhere. ‘Follow the money’ keeps being the golden rule to understand what happens in the world www.thepressproject.gr
Trump’s decision to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination has brought a great deal of new attention to his wide range of business activities and the controversies associated with many of them, involving issues such as alleged racial discrimination, tax abatements, union avoidance and environmental harm dirtdiggersdigest.org
Quali sono le attività estrattive in corso in Basilicata ormai da venti anni e quali relazione hanno con l’andamento nazionale dei consumi e delle produzioni di petrolio. Ma soprattutto: quali conseguenze si sono prodotte finora sul piano economico ed occupazionale a livello locale? www.economiaepolitica.it
This idea that some people in the European Left have, that you can somehow skip the nation-state and change things directly at the regional or even global level, without, for example, being bothered with winning elections at home – it’s wrong and dangerous. It could be the last nail in the Left’s coffin www.socialeurope.eu
2,28 miliardi di dollari a fronte di un investimento iniziale di appena 177 milioni. È la misura dell’eccezionale profitto incassato dal fondo distressed NML, il veicolo offshore della Elliot Management che dal 2001 conduceva una battaglia legale contro Buenos Aires con l’obiettivo di recuperare l’intero valore dei titoli di Stato argentini dichiarati in default www.valori.it