Working conditions of platform workers

The European Commission has published a study on working conditions of platform workers. The report identifies key challenges related to platform work, such as …

Horizon 2020: A Game Changer for European 5G?

Facing the competition from North America and Asia, the European Union has proposed the launch of an ambitious €100 billion budget plan for funding …

Time To Liberate Libra?

Libra, the new private digital money system sponsored by Facebook and a consortium of other firms, was announced on 18th June 2019, and officially …

The trouble with the EU’s digital tax

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 …

Supervising the Tech Giants

The rise of the ‘tech giants’ is, of course, a significant commercial threat to more traditional media, but it also raises some potentially important …

No, scrapping net neutrality laws won’t kill the internet

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 …

Fair and efficient? On the EC’s proposals for corporate tax reform in the digital single market

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 …

The wrong assumptions behind a European web tax

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 …

Businesses and Data Protection: are European firms ready?

The French Council of State recently asked the European Court of Justice to settle a case determining whether search engines such as Google and …

The EU must legislate for the future, not regulate the past: The Google fine

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 …

Platform for debate

Platform businesses bring together distinct but interdependent sets of users in such a way as to improve the welfare of each side of the …

Antitrust and the challenge of regulation for online platforms

Platform businesses bring together distinct but interdependent sets of users in such a way as to improve the welfare of each side of the …

The EU should support tech giants, not attack them

The position of the European Union (Brussels) and some economic commentators on technology multinationals should not surprise us. However, it is totally wrong. It …

The Economics of Industry 4.0

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 …

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET

Part 2, for see part 1 here.
 
The great 20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter noted that it is not our technological capabilities that …