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Taking the big picture, we can say for sure that those doing very well out of our generally stagnant economy are overwhelmingly in the business service sectors, whose average pay – which was already ...
T. Sabri Öncü and Güney Düzçay This article first appeared in the Indian journal, Economic & Political Weekly, on 14 September 2024. Güney Düzçay (guneyduzcay@gmail.com) and T. Sabri Öncü ...
Our new research report looks at a wide range of issues - workforce size, economically active/inactive, employees/self-employed, full/ part-time workers. It also examines data on developments in ...
Kaye Wiggins in the Financial Times explains that private equity groups, including Blackrock, deliberately inflate the value of their own assets – by buying and then selling said assets to themselves.
This article first appeared in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly on 13 November, 2021. Fermi Paradox In a recent article, Yıldızoğlu (2021) reminded us of the Fermi Paradox, which can ...
In 2020, governments all over Europe and beyond enacted unprecedented fiscal stimulus to keep their economies afloat amidst the pandemic. By the end of the year, a country like France will have ...
Globally the economy has outgrown the carrying capacity of the biosphere, as a conservative, annual assessment of ecological overshoot makes clear. It is as if we are trying to shove size 10 economic ...
PRIME has from its launch 10 years ago aimed to rethink economic theory to take on board the ecological crisis and its human impacts. In this article, Ian Gough argues that a more radical agenda is ...
At this moment in history, with Britain on the brink of Brexit, we look forward to Europe's next ten years. László Andor, ex EU Commissioner for Social Affairs and now Secretary General of the ...
PRIME was established ten years ago because ‘mainstream’ economic theory proved of almost no relevance to the chronic failure of the global economy and gravest threat facing us all: climate breakdfown ...
As part of this series celebrating PRIME's tenth anniversary, we are looking forward to the next ten years. This contribution by Laurie Macfarlane, looks at the future role of the state. "In the UK, ...
This is a You Tube recording of a discussion organised by the Trans National Institute (TNI) on Wednesday, 7th October, 2020. Jayati Ghosh, Ann Pettifor, Alvin Mosioma and Oscar Reyes hold a ...