The completely renewed and upgraded neutron reflectometer at the TU Delft Reactor Institute

The horizontal time-of-flight neutron reflectometer at the reactor of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, has been completely renewed, relocated, and upgraded and allows for the study of air/liquid, solid/liquid, and solid/air interfaces. Innovations in the redesign include (i) a completely flexible double disk chopper system...

Preventing Technological Unemployment by Widening our Understanding of Capital and Progress: Making Robots Work for Us^*

Unless we direct technology, technology will increasingly direct us, with mass un(der)employment and a possible atrophying of the human soul (i.e. human thinking, feeling and will) as likely consequences. The root of such problems is a failure to understand capital fully, itself a consequence of a failure to understand fully the human...

Robots and us: towards an economics of the ‘Good Life’

(Expected) adverse effects of the ‘ICT Revolution’ on work and opportunities for individuals to use and develop their capacities give a new impetus to the debate on the societal implications of technology and raise questions regarding the ‘responsibility’ of research and innovation (RRI) and the possibility of achieving ‘inclusive and...

De arbeidsinkomensquote in macro-economisch perspectief

Er is hernieuwde aandacht voor de AIQ omdat deze in bijna alle OESO-landen een dalende trend vertoont. Er zijn verschillende<br/>macro-economische oorzaken voor de daling aan te wijzen, zoals robotisering, globalisering en arbeidsmarktderegulering. Gevolg is dat de vraag daalt, wat de potentiële economische groei reduceert.

Myths, Mix-ups and Mishandlings: What Caused the Eurozone Crisis?

The Eurozone crisis has been wrongly interpreted as either a crisis of fiscal profligacy or of deteriorating unit-labour cost competitiveness (caused by rigid labour markets), or a combination of both. Based on these diagnoses, crisiscountries have been treated with the bitter medicines of fiscal austerity, drastic wage reductions, and far...

Report Contrasting CRESSI’s Approach of Social Innovation with that of Neoclassical Economics: Deliverable 1.3

Het nut van ontslagbescherming. Onzeker werk: De grens in bereikt (1)

Versoepeling van het ontslagrecht past goed bij kostenbeheersing en loonmatiging. Maar worden bedrijven er ook slimmer van? Nee, laten Alfred Kleinknecht, Ro Naastepad en Servaas Storm zien. Flexibele arbeidsverhoudingen beïnvloeden innovatie en productiviteitsgroei negatief, vooral ook omdat kennismanagement bij kortere dienstverbanden...