To achieve radical economic change, we need to work differently
We need to think bigger and recognise the difficulties of change, say Audrey Gaughran, Michelle Meagher and Meghna Abraham.
Read MoreTackling agrifood monopolies in African countries
Former regulator Chilufya Sampa talks about the opportunities and challenges of upholding competition law in African contexts.
Read MoreTime to revive the UN commission for multinationals?
Fifty years ago, the UN was a hub of ambitious thinking about corporate power. Maybe it should be again, argues the Editor.
Read MorePublic data, private capture: the case of India
We need to stop Big Tech from encroaching on digital public infrastructure, says Sadhana Sanjay.
Read MoreSo what should we do about corporate power?
All the ideas on Critical Takes (and more) in one short read, and how they fit into a common agenda.
Read MoreHow Big Tech turns knowledge into power
The three "cloud giants" capture knowledge and use it to dominate other companies, says Cecilia Rikap.
Read More"Their economic power has never been greater."
Jayati Ghosh tells Critical Takes that the rising profits of multinational corporations rest on their influence over states.
Read MoreCorporate power and neoliberal amnesia
The fate of the UN's commission on transnational corporations shows the need to safeguard what we already know, says Matti Ylönen.
Read MoreChallenging Big Oil in the North Sea
Tessa Khan of Uplift talks to Critical Takes about the legal and political campaign for a just energy transition in the UK.
Read MoreThe problem with pension fund capitalism
Public pension funds for Canada’s workers shouldn’t be extracting profit from public needs, say Livi Gerbase and Jason Ward.
Read MoreHow "national champions" are reshaping the global meat industry
Kate Sievert, Phil Howard and their co-authors show how public backing for firms from Brazil and China creates new centres of corporate power.
Read MoreChallenging complex problems together
Carolina Rodrigues Finette reflects on lessons from bringing together tax justice and education campaigners.
Read MoreWhere next for a business and human rights treaty?
Talks at the UN should run more smoothly now, but big questions about the scope of a global treaty are still open, says Sikho Luthango.
Read MoreCurbing monopoly power: what happens now?
Claire Godfrey of the Balanced Economy Project talks about where the US and Europe might go on the problem of corporate monopolies.
Read MoreThe outlook for tax justice in Africa
Chenai Mukumba of Tax Justice Network Africa talks about the outlook for 2025 and why a UN tax convention matters for Africa.
Read MoreFrom mining transparency to justice and equity
Ketakandriana Rafitoson talks about the Publish What You Pay coalition’s new global strategy for the energy transition.
Read MoreBig Tech's political push in Europe
Max Bank of LobbyControl talks about the “corporate siege” of Davos, Big Tech's political power and Elon Musk’s meddling in Germany.
Read More2025 is going to be a bumpy year
Trump, trade tensions, new tech and the climate crisis will make for a volatile year, says the Editor.
Read MoreMonopolies of knowledge are making the rich richer
Tomás Rotta considers the problem of monopolies over intellectual property and what to do about it.
Read MoreOxfam thinks big about curbing corporate power
Critical Takes talks to Alex Maitland of Oxfam about their ambitious ideas for taming big business.
Read MoreThe United Nations, tax and human rights
Maria Ron Balsera of the Center for Economic and Social Rights talks Critical Takes through negotiations for a UN tax convention.
Read MoreLand, sugar and corporate power
Kelvin Chirwa offers a close-up view of the power imbalance on the ground between small farmers and a multinational in Malawi.
Read MoreTaking Uber to court and winning
James Farrar of Worker Info Exchange talks to Critical Takes about pushing back against data-driven exploitation of workers.
Read MoreUnhealthy diets, outsized profits
Ultra-processed diets are a tell-tale sign that something’s deeply wrong with our food systems and our economies, says Benjamin Wood.
Read MoreTax, market power and global value chains
If we want to do tax reform fairly, we need to talk about multinationals' market power, says Clair Quentin.
Read MoreHow profit flows from FDI deepen the North-South divide
Christof Parnreiter, Laszlo Steinwärder and Klara Kolhoff show that vast profits from investment flow to just five rich countries.
Read MoreWhy corporate power is a feminist issue
A toxic mix of profit-making and patriarchy is enriching billionaires and harming women and marginalised people, says Sanyu Awori.
Read MoreDemocratic public ownership: an idea whose time has come
There are alternatives to companies being owned by private capital or states, says Thomas M. Hanna.
Read MoreStrengthening trade union power in Kenya's tea plantations
Kenya's trade unions need to be strengthened to take on corporate power in the tea industry, says Julius Okoth
Read MoreGrowing profits on a damaged planet
Is a long boom in corporate profits going to end? If so, then what next, asks the Editor.
Read MoreConcentrated corporate power: a problem for workers
As corporations in the European Union get bigger, stronger collective bargaining power for workers is needed, says Stan de Spiegelaere.
Read MoreThe new fight against monopoly power
Competition policy offers a potent tool for breaking up the monopoly power of giant corporations, says Nicholas Shaxson, and can win broad political support.
Read MoreThe problem with multistakeholderism
Multistakeholderism is a deeply problematic doctrine which opens the door for corporations to be formally recognised as global governors, partly at the expense of states, says Harris Gleckman.
Read MoreEurope’s new due diligence law falls short
The EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is no substitute for an international treaty on business and human rights, says Andressa Oliveira Soares.
Read MoreHow to break open Big Tech
The digital power amassed by giant transglobal tech firms needs to be given back to people, communities and nations, argues Parminder Jeet Singh.
Read MorePushing back against corporate power in the US
US corporations are coming out swinging against attempts to hold them to account, but people are fighting back, says Irit Tamir of Oxfam America.
Read MoreA UN convention is a big deal for tax justice
The forthcoming UN tax convention offers a historic opportunity to regulate multinationals, says Alex Cobham of Tax Justice Network.
Read MoreWelcome to Critical Takes on Corporate Power!
Critical Takes is a new discussion platform for people who want to make corporate power more just and democratic, says The Editor.
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