Author : The Conversation

Uber, the popular ride-hailing app, just announced it has settled two class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts in which drivers sought classification as employees and entitlement to overtime pay and...

  The release of the Panama papers is yet to reach its endgame, but there are some clear truths we can take from it. People or businesses that don’t pay their...

Companies such as drugmaker Pfizer and medical device maker Medtronic that have used a technique called an inversion to reduce their tax bill recently got a smackdown from President Barack...

Productivity seems to be one of the measures the Federal Government is using to justify its policy decisions in the lead up to the budget.  The Prime Minister Malcolm...

Which is the best African country in which citizens should live? A recently developed barometer has measured just that.  The Good African Society Index, published in 2015, measures the...

When the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, told a newspaper the firm was “doing God’s work”, his appeal on behalf of higher powers was an attempt to...

The so-called Panama Papers span thousands of pages, revealing that many of the world’s elite have been hiding their money in offshore accounts in an attempt to shield their...

The aim of progressive taxation and the welfare state is to redistribute wealth from the richest to the poorest in an effort to erode the worst aspects of poverty...

Foreign investors love Britain, but Brexit would kill the vibe. According to new research colleagues and I have conducted at the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union could...

For centuries, happiness was exclusively a concern of the humanities, a matter for philosophers, novelists and artists. In the past five decades, however, it has moved into the domain...