Economics Corporate profits are gaining from US price inflation… A history of the need for price controls – from Phenomenal World 16 Jan 2022 As a share of Gross Domestic Product, corporation profits corrected for inventories and depreciation were 12.6 percent in Q3 2021, up from 11.1 percent in 2019 and 10.9 percent in…
Digital transformation… Horizons: New technologies and trends in supply chain management – RISE 16 Dec 202116 Dec 2021 RiSE organised a panel speakers: Logistics and Supply Chain Management experts Dr Kamila Walters and Asher Rospigliosi, from the University of Brighton’s School of Business and Law, and Dr Maria Holgado Granados and Dr Aniekan Essien from the University…
Digital transformation… Game Worker Solidarity: Organizing from the Screen to the Table 7 Dec 202116 Dec 2021 Join Haymarket Books and worker organizers from the Games industry to celebrate the launch of the Game Worker Solidarity website.Wednesday, December 8, 3:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM UK Details…
Economics A call for a post pandemic intervention to address climate change by Tim O’Reilly 28 May 2020 A long view with links to useful sources. O'Reilly draws on scenario planning as a rationale for thinking big as we try to address the post pandemic world. The…
Digital transformation… A warning that Covid19 tracking is accelerating an unregulated digital transformation to an AI managed surveillance dystopia 13 May 202013 May 2020 An important warning from Naomi Klein about the momentum to have Covid19 accelerate the dominant myth of big tech as an inevitable and unregulated custodian of our lives: This is…
Economics Responding to Covid19 – How Individualism, and Collective Self Perception in the USA Shapes the We – I balance 24 Apr 202013 May 2020 Some thought on the the We-I balance and Covid19 in the USA stirred by reading Individualism, and Collective Self Perception in the USA by Stephen Mennell. Understanding what Norbert Elias…
Digital transformation… Made in Africa: African digital labour in the value chains of AI 21 Apr 202013 May 2020 Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar conducted a five-year study (2014-19) in South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, involving in-depth interviews and group discussions with more than 200 stakeholders—including…
Economics Illouz shows how Covid-19 highlights why we need the state 11 Apr 202011 Apr 2020 It is with no small irony that the world of finance, usually arrogant and so often unaccountable, was the first to collapse, showing that the continued and unfathomable circulation of…
Economics How American women got stuck in the kitchen – Womenomics 14 Apr 2018 The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook shows the cost of having no federal paid leave programme Democracy in America Apr 13th 2018 by M.S.R. | WASHINGTON, DC IN 1986, “American…
Digital transformation… Workers at risk as robots set to replace 66m jobs, warns OECD 13 Apr 201813 May 2020 One in seven vulnerable employees in developed world least likely to be receiving help Larry Elliott Economics editor Tue 3 Apr 2018 17.08 BST Last modified on Wed 4 Apr 2018…