Has the Day of Reckoning for the Gig Economy Arrived?
By John Colley
This paper examines the main “gig economy” industries in the context of rapidly changing economic conditions. Faced with high inflation levels, governments...
ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the Collapse of the Creative Process
By Nir Eisikovits and Alec Stubbs
In 2022, OpenAI – one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research laboratories – released the text generator ChatGPT and the...
The Unwarranted Ukraine Proxy War: A Year Later
By Dr Dan Steinbock
To Russia and Ukraine, the crisis is an existential issue. To the US and NATO, it's a regime-change game. To Europe,...
Equidem Report Fingers Qatar, not European Contractors
By Duggan Flanakin
On November 10, 2022, less than two weeks before the start of the Qatar World Cup, a London-based organization, Equidem, released a...
The Merck Innovation Cup: Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
When we launched the Merck Innovation Cup in 2011, none of us was sure about its potential to inspire the next generation of scientists...
How Remote Work is Affecting Real Estate Markets
By Susan Wachter
Work from home (WFH) disrupted real estate markets globally during the pandemic and continues to do so. Geographic shifts in the use...
BlackRock CEO’s Comments About Inflation and Remote Work Show Poor Judgment
By Gleb Tsipursky
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink claimed1 in a recent interview2 with Fox that “we have to get our employees back in the office.”...
The Valuation of Nature after the Pandemic Seeing More Than Instrumental and Intrinsic Values
By Johanna Zoe Hartmann & Michael Palocz-Andresen
The valuation of nature has relied broadly on instrumental and intrinsic values that form a dichotomy, an approach...
Why Did Adidas Wait So Long to Drop Kanye West?
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech… the company has taken the decision to terminate the...
The Ukraine-Russia War and Its Impact on the Global Economy
By Kalim Siddiqui
Introduction
The impact of the war in Ukraine cannot be limited to Europe; it has implications for the global economy. The question is...
