The Current Wows and Woes of Silicon Valley – Big Tech, the Gig Economy and its Workers
By Natalie Rauscher Last year, I published the article Welcome to Uber Land on the gig economy giant Uber. Uber...
Tagged: American Economy
The Land of Opportunity… no more? Declining social mobility and the potential of community college education in the U.S.
By Natalie Rauscher When Raj Chetty and David Grusky et al. published their paper The Fading American Dream: Trends In...
Economics Month Pt. IV – Podiumsdiskussion “Zukunft der Arbeit – Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung”
von Andreas Balz – Welche Veränderungen sind von der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt zu erwarten? Wie wird sie sich auf...
Economics Month Pt. III – John Komlos on these ‘Not Normal Times’
by Natalie Rauscher – John Komlos leads us down a bleak path of recent U.S. economic history at the HCA’s...
Economics Month Pt. II – Robert Zoellick and Why The People Matter
By Maren Schäfer – As part of the Economics Month, the HCA and the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics welcomed Robert Zoellick...
Economics Month Kick-Off! The Populist Temptation by Barry Eichengreen
by Aline Schmidt – Over the next few weeks, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies is hosting its first Economics...
Welcome to Uber-Land
The ride-hailing giant from California and why it’s not coming to Germany any time soon by Natalie Rauscher One of...