A courier company has blacklisted a worker who won a judgment against another courier company. The courier workers' union will sue.

In this one way, the UK is better off than the US. US couriers find it almost impossible to unionize, and the law won't help their demand to be paid the minimum wage.

The Tories are desperate to build heavily subsidized nuclear power plants even though those can't compete with simple and safe wind turbines.

A small claims court for copyright infringement might not be a bad idea, but the current US bill to create one would make it biased and useful for copyright trolls.

When an organization of large and powerful companies praises a measure that is supposedly meant to help small companies, we must suspect trickery.

Finland's laws and policies help parents and parents-to-be, for the sake of healthy and capable children. Finland successfully encourages fathers to spend as much time with their children as mothers do, for the sake of the children.

In the US, by contrast, men can get fired for taking unpaid leave to care for their children or other relatives.

I want a world in which all children's families get this kind of help, for the well-being of all children. Would it be too expensive? Not if we bring the birth rate down to the level that the world can sustain. We need to reduce the human population by means of fewer births to avoid the coming disaster that is likely to kill billions of people painfully.

Stiglitz: The problem with the US's business-supremacy treaties is not that the US negotiators failed to get what they wanted. It's that they succeeded in serving multinational business against the people of all the countries involved.

I will add, to what Stiglitz says, that we can't expect retraining of workers for new jobs to counteract the injustice of globalization. We need global measures to make companies pay more to their employees, even their low-skilled employees, and to make them pay more taxes to give the low-paid and the unemployed a better life.