PRIME co-founders have backgrounds and expertise in academia, government economics and statistics, the international financial system and sovereign debt, the City, politics and advocacy.
PRIME members have published extensively on Keynes, monetary economics, economic statistics, sovereign debt, the international financial architecture, financial markets and the present crisis. Furthermore we have promoted ideas and policies for its resolution.
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Victoria Chick, Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College London, is one of the world’s leading scholars of Keynes and monetary economics. Her seminal work Macroeconomics After Keynes: A Reconsideration of The General Theory was described by the Cambridge Keynes scholar Geoff Harcourt as the most important economics book after the General Theory. She has also published: The Theory of Monetary Policy; On Money, Method and Keynes: Selected Essays, edited Recent Developments in Post-Keynesian Economics and Finance, Development and Structural Change and written many articles on monetary theory and policy, methodology and the economics of Keynes. She was Bundesbank Guest-Professor at the Free University of Berlin in 2000-2001 and has held visiting posts at the Reserve Bank of Australia, McGill University and the Universities of Southampton, Aarhus, Louvain, Catania, Burgundy, and California at Berkeley and Santa Cruz. She served on the council and executive committee of the Royal Economic Society, the governing bodies of UCL and the University of London and on the editorial boards of several journals. She is now working on problems of the zero-growth economy. |
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Ann Pettifor’s work and writing has concentrated on the international financial architecture, the sovereign debts of the poorest countries, and the rise in sovereign, corporate and private debt in OECD economies. She is well known for her leadership of an organisation Jubilee 2000, that placed the debts of the poorest countries on the global political agenda, and brought about both substantial debt cancellation, and radical policy changes, at national and international levels. In 2003 she edited ‘the Real World Economic Outlook’ (Palgrave) with a prescient sub-title: ‘the legacy of globalisation: debt and deflation’. In 2006 Palgrave published her book: “The coming first world debt crisis”. In 2008 she co-authored “The Green New Deal” and in 2010 co-authored an essay with Professor Victoria Chick: “The economic consequences of Mr. Osborne.” |
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Jeremy Smith is co-Director of PRIME, and a barrister by profession, with a strong and sustained interest in political economy. His career has spanned the public, private and non-profit sectors. From 1990 to 1996 he was Chief Executive of the London Borough of Camden, and later worked for local government in the European and international domain. He was Secretary General of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions from 2002 to 2009. He is an expert in international urban development, as well as EU and national constitutional issues. |
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Michael Burke is an economist. He has worked in the City and was formerly Senior International Economist with Citibank in London and currently works as a consultant. He has written on the Asian economic crisis of 1997-98 and more recently co-authored Stimulating Recovery, on solutions to the Irish economic and fiscal crisis. He has written extensively on the British economic situation and on developments in Europe. He blogs regularly for Socialist Economic Bulletin. |
