The article examines Airbnb's impact on Canadian housing, highlighting concerns about affordability, regulatory challenges, and socio-economic implications, urging for stricter regulations to balance tourism and housing needs.

This book explores the domination of technology giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Tencent. The author delves into the profound impact these companies have had on the economy, reshaping capitalism through digital surveillance and proprietary markets, and offers critical reflection on power dynamics, market monopolies, and the future of economic systems.

This talk discusses the Pentagon's reliance on Silicon Valley for technology, raising concerns about conflicts of interest, lack of innovation, and national security risks. The guest calls for reevaluation and diversification of tech partnerships to safeguard defense capabilities.

This talk discusses the Pentagon's reliance on Silicon Valley for technology, raising concerns about conflicts of interest, lack of innovation, and national security risks. The guest calls for reevaluation and diversification of tech partnerships to safeguard defense capabilities.

The Research Unit "Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets," alongside other specialized groups at our institute, rigorously investigates the multifaceted challenges affecting global pension systems, labor markets, healthcare, innovation, environmental economics, inequality, and fiscal policy. They engage with pressing issues like demographic shifts, technological advances, and climate change, delivering critical insights that inform public policy and corporate strategies within an evolving European framework.

Discussing the nuances and misconceptions surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) in AI, critically examining their role as cultural technologies in the context of intellectual property and political economy. This essay emphasizes the transformation of information summarization technologies and the resulting shifts in political alliances regarding intellectual property rights. The author advocates for the careful consideration of LLMs' value in conjunction with human knowledge production and calls for policy adaptations in response to the evolving landscape of AI.

The recent proliferation of on-demand work platforms has catalyzed an unexpected rise in collective actions among spatially isolated gig workers, challenging their apparent fragmentation. A literature review spanning multiple continents reveals global patterns of worker organization within the platform economy. Despite diverse strategies, gig workers are cultivating collective identities to strengthen their bargaining power, employing a new mix of traditional and novel protest tactics to assert their rights against the individualizing forces inherent in the gig economy's business model.

The article explores the profound ecological consequences of digital technology and cloud computing. It highlights the massive energy consumption, carbon emissions, and e-waste generated by data centers. It calls for urgent action to mitigate these impacts through sustainable practices and technological innovation.

In examining the paradigms shaping Stockholm's smart city developments, this paper unpacks the utopian logics that underwrite these initiatives. It adopts a utopian lens, advocated by contemporary scholars, to scrutinize the narratives of smart urbanism. The study reveals that these narratives are suffused with aspirations for enhanced visibility, predictability, and controllability, reflecting an implicit faith in technology's capacity to transcend the limitations of human planning.