Prof George Batsakis

The text argues that strict environmental standards can attract green industries rather than drive them away. Evidence shows firms producing green products prefer “green havens” with strong regulation to ensure credibility, transparency, and legitimacy. As sustainability becomes valuable, globalization is shifting toward a “race to the top,” where regulation supports competitiveness.

The text argues that streaming platforms like Netflix have become the new gatekeepers of global culture. Through acquisitions, revenue-sharing rules, algorithms, and vertically integrated business models, platforms now control content creation, visibility, and monetization, reshaping power relations among studios, creators, and audiences and redefining cultural governance worldwide.

The gig economy’s promise of flexibility hides growing worker backlash. Studies on Uber and Deliveroo reveal how algorithmic pay systems, opaque pricing, and “instant” rewards increase pressure, reduce transparency, and deepen dependence. Workers respond through resistance and digital manipulation, exposing tensions between autonomy and control. The rise of algorithmic management demands oversight to protect fairness, agency, and social equity.