PEF council member, Johnna Montgomerie, hosts the digital symposium and KCL’s Politics of Inequality Working Group podcast: Inequality – The Issue of Our Time.
‘The Return of the State’ is central to addressing inequality Read More »
UK household debt hit an all-time high before the Coronavirus. Now it’s the next crisis the government has to tackle – and only a suspension of repayments will do.
The Coronavirus Debt Crisis Read More »
To move away from debt-dependent growth and escape the ‘boom, bust, bailout, austerity’ cycle, we need to cultivate our powers of economic storytelling.
How austerity is made: economic storytelling about debt Read More »
The UN has just issued a damning report on the UK’s policy failures over the past eight years, cataloguing and condemning the “unnecessary misery” inflicted by the policy.
The UN is worried by UK austerity – so how do we end it? Read More »
A household debt cancellation fund would be endowed with the same amount offered to bail out the banks 10 years ago.
The case for cancelling household debt Read More »
Dr Johnna Montgomerie, Prof John Weeks and Ann Pettifor introduce PEF’s new project, 100 Policies to End Austerity.
100 Policies to End Austerity Read More »
Today the ONS released its first estimates of GDP growth in April-June 2018. Here, the PEF Council react to the figures and tell us what they mean for the UK economy.
Latest GDP figures: the PEF Council reacts Read More »
The following is a transcript of Dr. Johnna Montgomerie’s speech at the launch of the Progressive Economy Forum, in which she discusses the intimate link between ‘public’ and ‘private’ debt and its implications for the debate around austerity.
The crisis of the debt economy and the end of austerity Read More »
