Projet H2020 PLUS – Événement – Shaping our Future in Smarter Regions and Cities: Digitalisation, Jobs, Growth

Post-2021 cohesion policy aims at smart specialisation and digital transformation. This generates new job profiles across sectors, creates opportunities for growth and global competition. However, digitalisation of work will also impact at all levels: on workers, regions, social security and tax systems; it may reinforce inequalities and challenge territorial cohesion. This workshop will explore inclusive digital economic growth and discuss scenarios for shaping a sustainable, inclusive future of work which is focusing on cohesion and the diversity of European …[Lire la suite]

Projet de recherche TAPAS – Événement

Forum des Plateformes Coopératives

11 octobre 2019 de 14h à 21 h 

Bourse du Travail de Paris

29, bd du Temple – 75003 PARIS

Les plateformes numériques ont bouleversé notre façon de nous déplacer, consommer, voyager… De gigantesques acteurs, comme Amazon, Uber ou Airbnb, sont en passe de « plateformiser » presque tous les aspects de notre vie, y compris les plus sensibles : nos …[Lire la suite]

Working Paper n°2019-07 – A Review of Rent-seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality, The Top 20%, 2019 by Péter Mihályi and Iván Szelényi – Mehrdad Vahabi

The authors, Péter Mihályi and Iván Szelényi, set themselves the ambitious task of formulating an alternative discourse about inequality in which the extent of inequality per se is not the problem but rather where inequalities stem from? Herein lies their fundamental divergence with Piketty (2014) for whom the excessive growth of “profits” is assumed to be the source of inequalities. The problem with mainstream economics and Piketty is that “profit” and “rent” are lumped together. A critical distinction …[Lire la suite]