How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation
IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s
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Business & Economics
Streaming, Torrents, and Market Fragmentation: Will p2p Filesharing, Unlike The South, Rise Again?
Digital piracy has made a comeback in recent years as the market for content streaming becomes more crowded and more expensive, leading to serious questions about the long-term sustainability of the sector.
Read MoreJust When We Thought There Was Nothing Left To Gentrify, They Gentrified… Protest Speech?
A big to-do was made about Dan Gilbert’s effort to paint “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” in prominent, white and black
Read MoreCOVID19 Has Birthed The Ultimate Frankenstinian Monster of Corporate Austerity
We are experiencing unusually high call volume. Your call is very important to us and will be answered in the
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Anecdotes from The Alleged Retail Apocalypse
Is retail dead? Probably not. Big box retail, though, may need to rethink some things.
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Supply Chains in the COVID Era and the Case for Economic Resiliency
As supply chains get disrupted and Americans lose access to coveted necessities like Wendy’s beef, COVID offers us some opportunities to ask some timely questions about how we can shift toward smaller-scale production as a question of sustainability and economic resiliency and prosperity.
Read MoreThinking Beyond The Gun: Lockdown Protests Distract From Meaningful Policy Debate
[Guest contributor Calley Wang writes about media narratives around the lockdown protests– and about what kinds of things we should
Read MoreThe Fine Line Between Entrepreneurship and Price Gouging
A large portion of my academic research is split between the questions of what it would look like to make
Read MoreMay Day: A Vignette
The Worker– Now, More Than Ever.
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California’s Nonprofits and Gig Workers Face A Three-fer
Oakland-based nonprofit fundraising and strategy consultant Julie Barton, PhD, talks to us about her concerns regarding the nonprofit sector. We also get some perspective on California’s new law, AB5, which has had unintended consequences for the gig economy at an extremely inopportune time.
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