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Saturday 11th June

09:30 ➔ 18:00 BST

Location
University of Greenwich
Stockwell Street Library
10 Stockwell Street
London
SE10 9BD
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Progressive Economics 2022

Progressive Economics 2022 was a one-day conference of transformative economic thinking. In a world battered by crises, facing environmental collapse, PEF brought together leading thinkers from across the progressive movement to present the arguments and solutions we need to build a radically better economy.

Thank you to the 500+ attendees who joined us on June 11 for a valuable day of discussion and debate at the University of Greenwich, London.

See photographs of the day, speakers and delegates here

Keynote
09:30 ➔ 10:20

Keynote

Keynote address from Michael Marmot, with an introduction from PEF Chair and Founder, Patrick Allen. 

Speakers
Building
Stockwell Street
Room
Stockwell Street LT

Plenary
10:30 ➔ 11:20

The Cost of Living on a Dying Planet

As food prices spike across the world, threatening famine in the Middle East and warnings of “apocalyptic” prices from the Bank of England, and the prices of other essentials continue to soar, the heavy costs of environmental damage and instability are being brought home across the globe.

Speakers

Building
Stockwell Street
Room
Stockwell Street LT
Russia’s War, and the Political Economy of Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought devastation to that country, but the shockwaves from its impact can be felt across the globe. This session explores the political economy of the war.

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW303
A Caring Economy

Our economy doesn’t work for human need, but for profit. Yet it depends critically on care work – from the NHS to social care to parenting, as the pandemic showed. This plenary looks at the crisis in the caring economy, and how we can build an alternative.

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW302

Morning
11:30 ➔ 13:00

Workers and the Crisis

As inflation rises, the mainstream response is to make workers pay – through recession, or through deeper cuts to wages. This session will be about the economic alternative – how workers are winning more rights and building their unions.

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW302
What does a Progressive Macroeconomic Policy Look Like?

The mainstream response to the worst inflation in decades has exposed the failures of neoclassical thinking. With central banks and governments seemingly unable to do anything but push up interest rates and hope for a recession, it’s time for a radical rethink of how we manage our economies.

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Building
King William
Room
KW315
How to End Rentier Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to produce productive investment and greater wealth for all. But instead we live in economies dominated by rent-seeking and rising inequality. This session will analyse the mechanisms of “rentier capitalism” and the policies needed to end it.

Speakers

Building
Stockwell Street
Room
Stockwell Street LT
Digital Futures

Covid-19 accelerated the digitisation of our economy, as more and more activity has moved online. But the technologies we have threaten an uncertain future at best: unemployment, huge inequalities of wealth and power, and a lack of democratic oversight. What might we expect, and what are the alternatives?

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW303
Brexit: What Next?

Despite the promises of an “oven-ready deal”, the fallout from Brexit continues to dominate the headlines. Hear expert voices on the consequences and future prospects of the current Brexit deal.

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW016
Beyond the Green New Deal

The Green New Deal has inspired movements across the world to demand more radical action on decarbonisation. But what are the next steps for the climate justice movement? Do we need to think bigger than the GND?

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW002
Better Data for Climate Action: a Presentation from Autonomy

In this session, the Autonomy team will present its work in progress project to bring advanced data analytics to bear on the fight against climate change, from regional economic transitions to climate disinformation online

Join this session to feedback on Autonomy’s work and contribute new ideas for experimentation!

Speakers


Building
King William
Room
KW003

Lunch Break
13:00 ➔ 14:00

Afternoon 1
14:00 ➔ 15:30

Why Rising Inequality Matters, and What to do About it

The pandemic saw one of the biggest transfers of wealth in human history – upwards, to the very wealthiest in society. This panel will look at the mechanisms of that transfer, and its consequences, and show ways in which the seemingly endless rise in inequality of wealth can be halted and reversed.

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Building
Stockwell Street
Room
Stockwell Street LT
The Real Economics of Migration

More people than ever are on the move, uprooted from their homes or just seeking a different life. This panel will hear from migration experts on the social and economic consequences, and what a just, humane migration policy might look like.

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Building
King William
Room
KW003
The Coming Debt Disaster

As prices rise faster than wages and salaries, households are piling on more debt to cope. This session looks at the causes of the looming debt disaster, and poses radical solutions to the crisis.

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW302
The Age of BlackRock: what asset manager capitalism means for people and planet

The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the asset manager industry. Giants like BlackRock now control trillions and trillions of dollars worth of assets. But what does this say about the concentration of wealth and power?  And how should we reimagine ownership to better serve people and planet?

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW016
Industrial Strategy, or Industrial Decline?

Government intervention is back in a big way, as countries turn back on years of free market ideology to actively support national industries in an increasingly competitive and unstable world. The session presents the case for an active industrial strategy to meet social and economic goals.

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW315
How to End the Cost of Living Crisis

The astonishing rise in prices is already causing misery, and most forecasters expect inflation to worsen. But mainstream “solutions” seem to involve either causing a recession, or cutting wages. Where are price rises coming from, and what are the real solutions to high inflation?

Speakers

Building
King William
Room
KW303
“Levelling Up” or Community Wealth Building?

Boris Johnson’s repeated claims to be “levelling up” the country are undermined by the hard facts showing a more geographically unequal economy than ever. This session will look at the practical, radical alternative

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW002

Afternoon 2
15:40 ➔ 17:10

The Right to Housing

The housing crisis worsens and the inequalities and injustices of our housing market are made daily more apparent. This session will hear from experts and campaigners about what has gone wrong, and how we can provide a secure, affordable home for all.

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Building
King William
Room
KW016
The Future of Money

The rise (and fall, and rise) of crypto has posed big new questions about one of the building blocks of our economy – the money we use. This session looks at the drivers behind digital currencies, the way they are reshaping parts of the economy – and what the best progressive response might be.

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW003
The End of Economic Growth?

Can economic growth continue? Should it continue? As recession looms yet again, this panel opens up a discussion on why we shouldn’t take economic growth for granted – and how we might think about alternatives.

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW303
How to work less (and why we should)

In the wake of covid, millions of us are questioning the status and organisation of how, where and when we work . This session introduces the ideas and demands of the so-called “anti-work” movement, from the demand for a four day week to “lying flat” in China.

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Building
King William
Room
KW002
Global Justice, Racial Capitalism

The economic crisis is about more than the economies of the Global North. The pandemic, supply disruptions, price rises and now debt are creating appalling conditions in the Global South, even as a tiny handful profit. This session is about how the global structures of exploitation shape the world we live in.

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW315
Financing the Caring, Green Economy

Our financial system remains dysfunctional, steering billions into new, more speculative assets whilst failing to invest properly in the industries and sectors we need for the future. This session will look at what has gone wrong, and how finance can be turned to socially useful ends.

 

Speakers

Building
Stockwell Street
Room
Stockwell Street LT
Communicating Economic Ideas

From “the cupboard is bare” to Rishi Sunak as superman, the British media rarely miss a chance to parrot rubbish about economics. How can progressive voices cut through the noise, and what can we do in the longer term to make our media work?

Speakers
Building
King William
Room
KW302

Closing
17:20 ➔ 18:00

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