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Kathleen Thelen: Consumers and citizens, the origins of the Amazon economy
Amazon and other Big Tech have revolutionized markets and consumption in just a few years, but, Kathleen Thelen argues, professor of political science at MIT in Boston, they use some practices similar to those of large mail order or supermarket chains. Tactics already used in the early 1900s. Of course,…
Read moreEurope and the commodification of public services – interwiew to Roland Erne
Roland Erne is professor of European Integration & Employment Relations at the University College Dublin School of Business and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Project “Labour Politics & the EU's New Economic Governance Regime (European Unions)” at the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. The results of…
Read moreThe Origins of the Amazon Economy – Kathleen Thelen’s Ciampi Lecture
In her Ciampi Lecture, Professor Kathleen Thelen, presented the results of her research on what she calls the "origins of the Amazon economy", pointing out the continuity and differences between the platform and app economy monopolized by Big Tech and the history of mail-order retail in the early decades of…
Read moreInequality today, an international conference
The conference was held as part of the research project TELI - Technology, labour, inequality of the Scuola Normale Superiore and the ISTAT research project Quality of employment and wage inequality: the role of technological change and enterprise characteristics. Structural aspects and consequences of the pandemic. A rich programme in which the…
Read moreLabour, Europe, ecological transition, three interviews with Dominique Meda
In May, Dominique Méda, philosopher and sociologist, lecturer at Paris Dauphine University, and promoter of the Manifesto for Work, was a visiting professor and guest of the Ciampi Institute. In those days we collected an interview with Professor Meda that was published in the daily newspaper Domani. In which we…
Read moreWelfare policies between theory and reality: the virtuous case of housing policies in Vienna – Yuri Kazepov
According to Yuri Kazepov, a sociologist at the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the Ciampi Institute in February 2024, the socio-economic, institutional, political and even bureaucratic framework is the context that helps determine the effectiveness of social policies When welfare reforms, large or small, are approved, the public…
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