{"id":5549,"date":"2019-03-31T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themint.kinsta.cloud\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2022-01-23T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T08:06:05","slug":"a-hole-in-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/a-hole-in-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A hole in the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grazia Ietto-Gillies has spent her career as an economist seeking to fill a crucial gap: the exclusion of transnational corporations into economic thinking. \u00a0And this gap is not a small one; 80% of trade is facilitated by such corporations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ietto-Gillies talked to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mint<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the key strategic advantages such corporations have and how Fiat has used them to control its workforce. \u00a0Surprisingly, the case of McDonalds provides a more positive story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ietto-Gillies is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics and Visiting Research Professor, Birkbeck, University of London. She has also published in 2017 a memoir of her childhood in Calabria: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the Olive Groves. A Calabrian Childhood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grazia Ietto-Gillies has spent her career as an economist seeking to fill a crucial gap: the exclusion of transnational corporations into economic thinking. \u00a0And this gap is not a small &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[132,290,716,2065,418,668,2067,2066,666,556,126],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-economics","tag-globalisation","tag-grazia-ietto-gillies","tag-international-labour","tag-interview-audio","tag-mar-2019","tag-mncs","tag-multinational-corporations","tag-transnational-corporations","tag-unions","tag-work","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}