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Published on April 6, 2023

PROGRESSIVE ECONOMICS 2023

Patrick Allen

Progressive Economics 2023
10th June 2023
at the University of Greenwich SE10 9BD

Following the great success of our conference last year , the Progressive Economy Forum and the University of Greenwich Research Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability bring you Progressive Economics 2023 –a conference of debate and education at a vital moment in the UK to debate the policies to tackle the alarming economic challenges of austerity, inequalities, Brexit, Covid-19, cost-of-living crisis, global supply problems, the war in Ukraine, care crisis and environmental collapse.What are the solutions and how to persuade the policy makers to implement them?

There will be panels on green caring, just transition, inequalities, cost-of-living crisis, economics of the commons, Brexit, fiscal policy, monetary policy, industrial policy and macroeconomic policy coordination with MPs , academics, and researchers from think-tanks and civil society organisations.

Speakers include John McDonnell MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Robert Skidelsky, Patrick Allen (PEF), Ann Pettifor(Prime), Stephany Griffiths-Jones (Banco Central de Chile), Carys Roberts (IPPR), Rebekah Diski (NEF), Molly Scott Cato (Green Party, Economy Spokesperson and Uni of Roehampton), Faiza Shaheen (PEF), Will Hutton (The Observer), Peter Holmes (Trade Policy Observatory), Geoff Tily (TUC), Danny Dorling (U o Oxford), Michael Jacobs (U o Sheffield), Guy Standing (SOAS), Susan Himmelweit (Open Uni), Özlem Onaran (UoG), Sue Konzelmann (Birkbeck), Maria Nikolaidi (UoG), Stewart Lansley (Uni o Bristol), James Meadway (PEF), Mehmet Ugur(UoG), Jo Michell (UWE), Rob Calvert Jump (UoG), Ben Tippet (UoG), and Alex Guschanski (UoG), among others.

Please register here for the Progressive Economics 2023 Conference.

The recordings of the highly successful Progressive Economics 2022 conference with 500 delegates are here.

Details of sessions will be announced in May.

Economists and human rights experts call on Starmer to drop “destructive” economic policy

Patrick Allen August 30, 2023

In an open letter coordinated by the think-tank Compassion in Politics, academics including PEF Council members Ha-Joon Chang and Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson – authors of the widely read The Spirit Level – warn Starmer that his current approach mimics the “economic orthodoxy that has made this country poorer, less cohesive and more unequal than fifteen years ago.”

The Cost of Living Crisis – a paper by Ozlem Onaran

Özlem Onaran April 4, 2023

This paper by PEF Council member Ozlem Onaran analyses the political economy of the cost of living crisis in the context of the UK. It presents the long-term trends in the wage share, wealth inequality, labour’s bargaining power, and the real wages in the UK.

Falling house prices may seem like a good thing – but it’s renters who are paying the price

Josh Ryan-Collins March 3, 2023

Josh Ryan-Collins writes in the Guardian “UK house prices are falling. In the year to February, prices fell by 1.1% to reach their lowest level for over a decade. The drivers are clear: inflation and rising interest rates are combining to put off mortgage borrowers…

BBC review on its economics broadcasting

Patrick Allen March 2, 2023

“We think too many journalists lack understanding of basic economics or lack
confidence reporting it. This brings a high risk to impartiality. In the period
of this review, it particularly affected debt. Some journalists seem to feel
instinctively that debt is simply bad, full stop, and don’t appear to realise
this can be contested and contestable.”