Four years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of more than $5.5 trillion.
Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88 Percent over Four Years – Inequality.org
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A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.
‘Gig’ workers in Europe: the new platform of rights (socialeurope.eu)
Economists could benefit from greater engagement with the ideas of philosophers, historians, and sociologists, just as Adam Smith once did. The philosophers, historians, and sociologists would likely benefit.
Angus Deaton
Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deaton (imf.org)
Corporate tax dodging and CEO pay have both gotten so far out of control that a significant number of major U.S. companies are paying their top executives more than they’re paying Uncle Sam.
Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam – Inequality.org
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… and what to do about it?
There is an elephant in the room. Stocks of wealth – assets such as property, savings, and investments that can be given a monetary value – have soared in recent decades. According to the Wealth Inequality Database, average wealth in the UK has doubled from £100k per head in 1985 to £200k per head in 2021. To put this another way, it took several millennia for wealth in Britain to reach the £100k threshold. And then, a mere 36 years later, this stock of wealth had doubled: a bonanza unprecedented in human history.
Why wealth inequality matters – and what to do about it! | LSE Inequalities
On International Women’s Day, we publish this superimportant report from the FAO, because indeed peace is not possible without social justice!
A job guarantee would not only eliminate long-term unemployment but also buttress the European Union.
What about the human touch?
‘Carebots’ are the mooted solution to the ageing crisis and staff shortages—but empathy and compassion are irreplaceable.
Robots in social care: the human touch at risk (socialeurope.eu)
ILO’s second volume on the history of social protection!
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