The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years
Clean energy and green growth proponents greatly underestimate the amount of change needed to migrate off fossil fuel sources.
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Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
To bring more chips-making back to the US, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks.
Read more...NLRB General Counsel Authors Memo Characterizing ‘Student-Athletes’ as Employees, Clearing Way for Them to Unionize; Employment Law Implications Extend to Others Misclassified as Independent Contractors
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo outlines arguments for treating college athletes as employees, thus allowing them employment law protections.
Read more...Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty Debate Inequality, Debt, and Reform
Thomas Piketty and Micheal Hudson address “What is debt,” and also address inequality, rentierism, and reform in the West and China.
Read more...How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Read more...The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
Read more...For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
An in-depth study of how investors in charter schools loot the businesses, and students predictably lose out.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Renegade Inc.: China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
Michael Hudson discusses China’s campaign to limit the influence of Western investors.
Read more...When McDonalds Came to Denmark
How Danish workers got McDonalds to comply with local labor practices, including high wages.
Read more...NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...Algorithmic Management
Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.
Read more...Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts
An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.
Read more...Matt Stoller: #OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Trying to clear up the rear-view-mirror takes on OccupyWallStreet, ten years later.
Read more...Can the Economy Afford NOT To Fight Climate Change?
Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
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