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In the US, the size of a locality does not necessarily determine its rate of entrepreneurship, with the densely populated Northeast lagging. Legislators have rolled out a series of place-based acts to support specific businesses in certain geographical areas. What factors are causing the disparities, and will legislation make a difference?

中美经济竞争与全球供应链回流努鲁拉·古尔、塞里夫·迪莱克《中国国际政治学报》，第16卷，第1期，2023年春季，第61-83页，https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poac022...

On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign I had never seen before: In a McDonald’s window it said $1,000 SIGNING BONUS. That was not a thing when I was a teenager doing minimum-wage jobs. No one paid you $1,000 signing bonuses to work for fast-food restaurants.

From the blog of Steven Windmueller at The Times of Israel

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By Albert Glotzer Many of the core activists of today’s left had their thinking shaped by the dramatic struggles of 1979-84, or of the late 1960s and early 70s — times when capitalism seemed to be in intractable crisis, and mass working-class action to change society was a prospect near at hand. Adjusting to the huge expansion of capitalism since the 1980s, and the ebb of labour movements (a temporary ebb, but a long temporary ebb) is difficult.

A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to 1927, focusing mostly on the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition.

Das Coronavirus krempelt unser Leben von Grund auf um. Wie geht es den Österreichern damit? Und was hilft, besser damit zurechtzukommen?

Die Prüfung zur Eröffnungsbilanz des Landes wird politisch heftig diskutiert. Landesrechnungshof-Direktor Andreas Mihalits gibt im Gespräch mit der BVZ Einblick in den komplexen Bericht und in die generelle Prüfung der Landesfinanzen.

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