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When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends.

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.

If Europe is to return to an innovative and dynamic economy - and if there is to be shared prosperity, social solidarity, and justice - then EU countries need to break with their current, destructive trajectory. This volume offers concrete strategies for renewal that would also reinvigorate the project of European integration, with fresh ideas in the areas of both macroeconomics and microeconomics, including central banking, public investment, corporate governance and competition policy, social policy, and international trade.

Podcast Topic: Our world is rapidly shifting and changing, businesses must continually learn, adapt and evolve ensuring they stay relevant, sustainable and profitable. But how do they remain true to their values, meaning and purpose? What does it take to create workplaces for happy & engaged teams who flourish at their optimal performance? New Rules uses positive psychology themes to explore how a business can throw the rule book up in the air to achieve all of these outcomes, by speaking to thought leaders and experts in commerce, coaching and wellbeing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...