Joseph Kenneth Baines

Jul 8, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Joseph Kenneth Baines

King’s College London and University of Sussex researchers found links between German car makers like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen, and the country’s semiconductor firms. With automotive companies now dependent on Chinese markets and suppliers, the researchers say this explains why Germany is defying US calls to cut China out of semiconductor supply chains in an ongoing global trade dispute known as the 'chip war'.

Dec 14, 2023 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Sandy Brian Hager |Joseph Kenneth Baines

After decades of policy choices privileging ever-larger corporate behemoths, our economy is now ruled by a small clique of super-sized, dominant firms. These corporations have concentrated markets to their liking, resulting in few checks and balances that push back against these firms hiking prices, while simultaneously depressing wages and good jobs, decreasing productivity and innovation, embrittling supply chains, and exacerbating racial injustice.

May 12, 2023 | kcl.ac.uk | Joseph Kenneth Baines

The world’s largest asset management companies are “firmly-orientated” towards securing short-term shareholder returns rather than backing the urgent changes needed to transition to a low-carbon future, a new study has found.