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6 October 2020
The European Commission has published a study on working conditions of platform workers. The report identifies key challenges related to platform work, such as …
Alex Zhang // 4 December 2019
Facing the competition from North America and Asia, the European Union has proposed the launch of an ambitious €100 billion budget plan for funding …
6 November 2019
Libra, the new private digital money system sponsored by Facebook and a consortium of other firms, was announced on 18th June 2019, and officially …
Richard Mason // 8 August 2018
It’s time to establish a modern, fair and efficient taxation standard for the digital economy – or at least, that’s how the EU have …
25 January 2018
The rise of the ‘tech giants’ is, of course, a significant commercial threat to more traditional media, but it also raises some potentially important …
Ryan Bourne // 16 January 2018
The decision by the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to remove so-called “net neutrality” laws in January produced a flurry of outrage. The American …
30 November 2017
In the wake of the Ecofin meeting that took place in Tallinn on September 15-16, the European Commission published a communication on “A Fair …
IBL // 15 September 2017
In a recent joint letter to the Commission, Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon …
Emily Schimelpfenig // 1 August 2017
The French Council of State recently asked the European Court of Justice to settle a case determining whether search engines such as Google and …
Lucinda Ritchie // 30 June 2017
After a 7 year investigation, the European Commission’s Margrethe Vestager announced on 27th June a €2.4 billion fine against search engine giant Google. Google …
7 June 2017
Platform businesses bring together distinct but interdependent sets of users in such a way as to improve the welfare of each side of the …
Daniel Lacalle // 10 April 2017
The position of the European Union (Brussels) and some economic commentators on technology multinationals should not surprise us. However, it is totally wrong. It …
22 February 2017
Viewed over the sweep of history, concerns about technological unemployment have always proved overblown. Over the last two-hundred years, technology has created more jobs …
Ryan Khurana // 14 February 2017
Part 2, for see part 1 here. The great 20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter noted that it is not our technological capabilities that …
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