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Karl Polanyi’s “Present Age of Transformation”: the Bennington Lectures 80 years on

Jeremy Smith

‘Growth’ as flawed concept, and inherent to case for globalisation

Geoff Tily

Blame economists for decades of false security

Ann Pettifor

The Financial Times's Lex column is legendary. The editor, Jonathan Guthrie, argues that it is “the oldest and arguably most influential column of its kind” having first appeared in 1945. Lex is written by a collective - there are no author bylines - and the column is for “anyone interested in the story of global capital viewed through the prism of corporate news.” In other words, Lex is for the very serious people. So it was with some interest my attention was drawn to the latest ‘Lex in depth article’, titled ‘how investors are underpricing climate risks'. The Lex collective, it appears, is uneasy...

The UK economy – stalled and unhealthy

Jeremy Smith

To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey

T. Sabri Öncü

Lending and Profiteering – Lessons from Argentina’s Recent Debt Problems

Kunibert Raffer

Settling the public sector pay disputes now – modest cost, big benefits

Jeremy Smith

Blame economists for decades of false security

Ann Pettifor

The Financial Times's Lex column is legendary. The editor, Jonathan Guthrie, argues that it is “the oldest and arguably most influential column of its kind” having first appeared in 1945. Lex is written by a collective - there are no author bylines - and the column is for “anyone interested in the story of global capital viewed through the prism of corporate news.” In other words, Lex is for the very serious people. So it was with some interest my attention was drawn to the latest ‘Lex in depth article’, titled ‘how investors are underpricing climate risks'. The Lex collective, it appears, is uneasy...

Karl Polanyi’s “Present Age of Transformation”: the Bennington Lectures 80 years on

Jeremy Smith

‘Growth’ as flawed concept, and inherent to case for globalisation

Geoff Tily

The UK economy – stalled and unhealthy

Jeremy Smith

To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey

T. Sabri Öncü

Lending and Profiteering – Lessons from Argentina’s Recent Debt Problems

Kunibert Raffer

Settling the public sector pay disputes now – modest cost, big benefits

Jeremy Smith

Karl Polanyi’s “Present Age of Transformation”: the Bennington Lectures 80 years on

Jeremy Smith

‘Growth’ as flawed concept, and inherent to case for globalisation

Geoff Tily

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Real World Economic Outlook
Ed. by Ann Pettifor (Palgrave, 2003)

The Coming First World Debt Crisis
Ann Pettifor (Palgrave, 2006)

Keynes Betrayed
Geoff Tily (Palgrave, 2010)

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? Ann Pettifor’s latest book – The Case for the Green New Deal – now available to purchase at Verso Books.

Book Reviews

Bill Gates: How to avoid a climate disaster: review for the Times Literary Supplement

Ann Pettifor

Review: Trade Wars are Class Wars

Ann Pettifor

Turner’s monetary economics: theoretically radical, but ultimately conservative

Geoff Tily

Ed Conway: Twenty Two Days that Changed the World

Ann Pettifor

Publications

Snatching defeat from the jaws of a presumed victory? The Herculean labours of fiscal stringency

Panagiotis Chronis & Vassilis Droucopoulos

Pain, No Gain: The Austerity Scam

John Weeks

Lessons from German History

Geoff Tily

Bringing Money Back from “The Underworld”

Geoff Tily

Long Reads

What kind of growth?

Victoria Chick

Lessons of German history: Trading austerity for debt relief is savage, stupid and futile

Geoff Tily

The productivity fallacy

Geoff Tily

The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne – updated

Geoff Tily

Latest Articles

India’s Inclusion in the JP Morgan GBI-EM (bond) Indices

T. Sabri Öncü

Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of Deglobalisation: the Turkish Experiment – III

Hasan Cömert & T. Sabri Öncü

Blame economists for decades of false security

Ann Pettifor

Feeling the pay pain

Jeremy Smith

The UK economy – stalled and unhealthy

Jeremy Smith

UK – bottom of the international economic league table

Jeremy Smith

Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of Deglobalisation: the Turkish Experiment-II

Hasan Cömert & T. Sabri Öncü

Settling the public sector pay disputes now – modest cost, big benefits

Jeremy Smith

Waiting for Deglobalisation – I

Ahmet Öncü & T.Sabri Öncü

To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey

T. Sabri Öncü

Changes in the UK labour market from 2019 to 2022 – our new report

Jeremy Smith

Authors

Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor – Director of PRIME and author of The Case for the Green New Deal (Verso, 2019) and The Production of Money (Verso, 2017).

Jeremy Smith

Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics

Geoff Tily

TUC Senior Economist and author Keynes Betrayed (Palgrave, 2007)

John Weeks

(1941-2020) Professor Emeritus, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, and author of Economics of the 1%: How mainstream economics serves the rich, obscures reality and distorts policy (Anthem Press,2020)

Kari Polanyi-Levitt

Kari Polanyi-Levitt

Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal and author of Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada (McGill Press, 2002)

Anna Coote

A leading analyst, writer and advocate in the field of social policy, and until recently head of Social Policy at NEF. She is co-author of The Case for Universal Basic Services (Polity, 2020)

Massimo Amato

Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, and co-author of The End of Finance (Polity Books)

Luca Fantacci

Economic historian and co-author, with Massimo Amato, of The End of Finance (Politybooks)

László Andor

Hungarian economist who, from 2010 to 2014, was Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion in the Barroso II administration of the European Commission. He is Secretary General of the Foundation of European Progressive Studies

Ian Gough

Author of Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing (Edward Elgar, 2017)

T. Sabri Öncü

An independent economist based in İstanbul, Turkey

Michael Hudson

American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist

Steve Keen

An Australian Post-Keynesian economist and author of Debunking Economics (Zed, 2011)

Climate Change

Blame economists for decades of false security

Bill Gates: Save the jetset

The case for an Ecological Interest Rate

We can’t afford a capitalism that doesn’t work for the next generation

UK

Feeling the pay pain

The UK economy – stalled and unhealthy

Settling the public sector pay disputes now – modest cost, big benefits

Changes in the UK labour market from 2019 to 2022 – our new report

Europe & Eurozone

UK – bottom of the international economic league table

Is Modern Monetary Theory suited for the EMU?

The GND and Europe’s next ten years: a plan for resolving the public debt crisis

How to strengthen European solidarity?

Finance & Regulation

India’s Inclusion in the JP Morgan GBI-EM (bond) Indices

Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of Deglobalisation: the Turkish Experiment – III

Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of Deglobalisation: the Turkish Experiment-II

Central bankers, inflation “cousins” & the real threat to the global economy

Public Debt

To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey

Climate crisis, global debt, and the Fermi paradox – a proposal to the IMF

Spend for recovery & green future, raising corporation tax is ok, & there are no bond vigilantes

Is Modern Monetary Theory suited for the EMU?

Money & Banking

A War No One Can Win – Ukraine and the Weaponisation of Everything

Quantitative Easing: how the world got hooked on magicked-up money

The case for an Ecological Interest Rate

Ways & means of paying Government’s growing bills – financing or cashflow?

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