May Looks to Labor for Brexit Bailout

Four-day work week? Let business work it out

Courtesy Taxpayers’ Alliance   In the past, the mention of a four day working week may have transported you back to the horrors of 1970s socialism or Edward Heath’s infamous three day week. But all such gloomy imagery has largely disappeared. In 2020, a four day week is firmly on the political agenda.    Last year, […]

“Failing” Universities “Waiting To Be Disrupted”

  By Erik Sass TES Editor   It was surprising to hear this critique delivered by professors in a university lecture hall to attentive undergraduates, to say the least. Universities are failing systemically and poised to undergo the kind of massive disruption through digital technology that has already upended first print and then broadcast media, […]

Does Austrian Black-Green coalition point the way for Europe?

    By Dr. Barbara Kolm, Director, Austrian Economics Center     The new Austrian coalition treaty between Sebastian Kurz´s OVP and Werner Kogler´s Green Party clearly has two different scripts.   The presented pact however shows the strength of the OVP. Out of 15 Ministers the OVP will have 11, whereas the Greens only […]