Worldwide research for Decent Work: The ICDD Network gets funded for another five years

http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/nc/universitaet/nachrichten/article/weltweit-forschen-fuer-menschenwuerdige-arbeit-netzwerk-icdd-um-fuenf-jahre-verlaengert.html

Selling Free Trade with Pseudo-Exact Science: The ifo-Studies

New Publication: "Selling Free Trade with Pseudo-Exact Science: The ifo-Studies" by Stefan Beck and Christoph Scherrer, Global Labour Column Nr. 181, http://www.global-labour-university.org/fileadmin/GLU_Column/papers/no_181_Beck_Scherrer.pdf

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Implications for Labor

NEW PUBLICATION: Scherrer (ed.), 2014: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Implications for Labor, Mering, Rainer Hampp Verlag. 

Content:
I. Assessing TTIP and Its Supporting Studies
II. Asymmetry: Investor and Labor Rights
III. Trade Union Positions on TTIP
ANNEX: Investment Protection in the Proposed EU-Canada Agreement (CETA)

Read more here: http://tiny.cc/ttiplabor

"Theatre will not be affected": What the free trade agreement TTIP means for the culture

„Theater werden nicht betroffen sein“: Was das Freihandelsabkommens TTIP für die Kultur bedeutet

"Das geplante Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA „TTIP“ ist zu einem politischen Reizthema geworden. So sehr, dass zur Diskussionsveranstaltung am Dienstag im Staatstheater mit dem Titel „TTIP: Bestimmt zukünftig die Wirtschaft das kulturelle Schaffen?“ weit mehr Interessierte kamen, als Stühle vorhanden waren"

http://www.hna.de/nachrichten/kultur/theater-werden-nicht-betroffen-sein-freihandelsabkommens-ttip-kultur-bedeutet-4390649.html 

TTIP - Prof. Christoph Scherrer calls for renegotiation

HNA Interview 28.10.2014
http://www.hna.de/nachrichten/politik/betroffene-nicht-beteiligt-4276693.html

New Publication: "Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics"

Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics 
Edited by Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer

The recent financial crisis exposed both a naïve faith in mathematical models to manage risk and a crude culture of greed that embraces risk. This book explores cultures of finance in sites such as corporate governance, hedge funds, central banks, the City of London and Wall Street, and small and medium enterprises. It uses different methods to explore these cultures and their interaction with different financial orders to improve our understanding of financial crisis dynamics.

Read more here: http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9781315773476/

New Publication: "Neoliberalism ’ s resilience: a matter of class"

New Publication: "Neoliberalism ’ s resilience: a matter of class"

in Critical Policy Studies, Volume 8, Issue 3, 2014

Read the full text here: http://tiny.cc/scherrerneoliberalism