SubjectEconomy and business
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. Two people are talking. One seems to tell the other about the house of his dreams: one bigger than the one he has.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/rosa-guillermo01-ilustracions_1100x548_10.jpg?itok=OqpXDDFk)
Economic inequality is conducive to individualism. Living in unequal societies makes us more concerned about our social position; the greater the difference, the further the distance...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. A number of people climb the stairs of a building but cannot keep going because a flight of stairs between two floors has collapsed.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/jose-moises01-ilustracions_1100x548_1.jpg?itok=y5_u_yKO)
The economic crisis has widened the gaps (labour, generation, gender and fiscal) that contribute to exacerbating inequality. If societies continue to increase these divides and the...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. Residential neighborhood typical in the United States. There are some well-built houses with a pool while other houses are half-sunken in their pool.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/marga-leon01-ilustracions_1100x548_2.jpg?itok=R_ic2McL)
Europe’s economic reconstruction in the second half of the 20th century focussed on providing liberal democracies with institutions that would protect citizens’ social rights...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. A house split into four as if it were a cake and, in the middle, grows a tree full of vultures.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/jaime-palomera02-ilustracions_1100x548_13.jpg?itok=l8fo8QYw)
A decade after the worst real estate bubble in history burst, access to housing is still one of the major social problems. And it is because states operate as another cog in the...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. A number of people contemplate a temple with Greek columns. The column on the right is shaped like a dollar symbol.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/anton-costas01-ilustracions_1100x548_5.jpg?itok=6g4qO4F5)
Is capitalism compatible with democracy and prosperity? The rise in inequalities in the early 21st century has had worrying implications in liberal democracies, which are...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. A person looks at a painting of a ledger. The painting shows descending lines that emerge from the ledger and pierce through the ground.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/editorial-ilustracions_1100x548_4.jpg?itok=yYrKMlEE)
There are more poor people today, and they have even less than before the crisis. Organised citizenship has tackled this situation with social innovation and solidarity, but worsening...
![Il·lustració de diferents llocs de Barcelona: Sagrada Família, Camp Nou, torre Agbar © Astrid Ortiz](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/infografia_4.jpg?itok=gUQRtiY5)
Barcelona receives more than 12 million visitors per year for both business and pleasure. The city is the location of one out of every three tourism companies in Catalonia and almost...
![Portrait of Dominique Méda © Albert Armengol](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entransit-obertura-meda-1100.jpg?itok=UPp6UCd0)
Thinker of reference in the study of work, Méda impresses with her passionate, direct, documented and rigorous discourse in defence of work in general and of wage earners in particular,...
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