Giorgos Gouzoulis

@ggouzoulis.bsky.social

Assoc Prof | Author, π˜Ώπ™šπ™—π™© 𝙖𝙣𝙙 π™©π™π™š 𝙁π™ͺ𝙩π™ͺπ™§π™š 𝙀𝙛 π™’π™€π™§π™ π™šπ™§π™¨ (@brisunipress.bsky.social, 2026)

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Anwar Shaikh was the most brilliant Marxist economist of his generation. He leaves behind a legacy that has the potential to drive political economy forward for years to come.

@patmcgovern.bsky.socialReposted by @ggouzoulis.bsky.social

I have a new paper on the workplace case study tradition in #industrialrelations Briefly, it has reinvented itself as the study of organisational restructuring with attempts to assess the distributional impact of such changes. Even so, the flow of such articles is in decline.

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Our next department seminar is next Wednesday, October 14 at 11:15am with Daniele Paserman (Boston University). Daniele is presenting "Female Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility". See below for details.

FALL 2026 Economics Seminar Series WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2026 11:15AM-12:45PM WHEATLEY-PETERS HALL 5TH FLOOR ROOM 041 "Female Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility" Professor Paserman is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He completed a PhD in economics at Harvard University. His research spans topics in labor economics, economic history, political economy, and behavioral economics. His re search has been published in many top outlets in economics and political science, and has been featured in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy and the Freakonomics blog. Recent projects include the study of intergenerational mobility and assortative mating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries; analysis of gender differences in cooperative behavior and the determinants of environmental policy making in the United States Congress; and the effect of economics education on gender attitudes. He currently serves as the President of the Society of the Economics of the Household.
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Very happy to be kicking off the 2026-27 Economics Seminar Series at @umassbostonecon.bsky.social next Wednesday! I’ll be talking about my new book, π˜Ώπ™šπ™—π™© 𝙖𝙣𝙙 π™©π™π™š 𝙁π™ͺ𝙩π™ͺπ™§π™š 𝙀𝙛 π™’π™€π™§π™ π™šπ™§π™¨. Really looking forward to it!

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Our 2026-27 Department Seminar Series kicks off next Wednesday, September 16 at 11:15am with Giorgos Gouzoulis (Queen Mary University of London). Giorgos is presenting "Debt and the Future of Workers: Financialization as Exploiation in the 21st Century". See below for details.

Giorgos Gouzoulis Associate Professor in Human Resource Management Queen Mary Business School, University of London FALL 2026 Economics Seminar Series UMass Boston WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16th, 2026 11:15AM-12:45PM WHEATLEY-PETERS HALL 5TH FLOOR ROOM 041 "Debt and the Future of Workers: Financialization as Exploiation in the 21st Century" Giorgos Gouzoulis is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management in the Department of People & Organisations in the School of Business & Management. His research focuses on industrial relations and issues around employee compensation, wage inequality, underemployment, union membership, and strike activity. He is the author of Debt and the Future of Workers: Financialization as Exploitation in the 21st Century. For more information about this event contact the Economics Department at Economics@umb.edu
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This is sort of a Rorschach test -- do you see "interest rates spiking scarily due to unsustainable government debt/the breakdown of the dollar system/etc", or do you see "interest rates returning to historically normal levels after the extraordinary monetary easing of the GFC-pandemic period"?

@rooseveltinstitute.orgReposted by @ggouzoulis.bsky.social

New data shows that workers are getting the smallest share of the economic pie on record.

On the heels of Labor Day, this decline makes the case for rebuilding worker power all the more urgent. One obvious place to start is raising the federal minimum wage. 🧡
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Graph showing the decline of labor share from 62% in 1947 to a record low of 52.8% in 2023. The graph indicates worker compensation compared to business earnings, sourced from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
@jacobinmag.bsky.socialReposted by @ggouzoulis.bsky.social

For Norwegians who lose their jobs, a comprehensive welfare system makes the experience of unemployment materially and morally very different from what unemployed workers in the United States undergo.

@jacobinmag.bsky.socialReposted by @ggouzoulis.bsky.social

The US government wrote off almost all the money it lent businesses during the pandemic. Now it’s wrecking credit scores and threatening to garnish paychecks to collect student loans. Debt can be forgiven easily enough β€” just not for the working class.

@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @ggouzoulis.bsky.social

Walmart spent $43.4B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2025, enough to give each of its 2.1M workers annual bonuses of $2,953. Last year, retiring CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $29.2M β€” his largest payday ever and 958x Walmart's median worker pay of $30,520. Textbook corporate greed.