The NHS represents the clearest and most radical example of collective provision, that citizens together could provide a public service more equitably, more efficiently and effectively than private provision. John Weeks argues this principle is essential to an open and inclusive democracy.
Election Choice: Universalism & Public Provision or Means Testing & Price Rationing Read More »
John Weeks, Coordinator of the PEF Council and Emeritus Professor of Economics, SOAS, writes for the PEF blog on the parties’ fiscal policies.
Fiscal Policy, Debt and Deficits Read More »
PEF Council coordinator John Weeks on the economic thinking at the IFS. Cross-posted from Open Democracy.
We need to talk about the Institute For Fiscal Studies Read More »
Professor John Weeks, PEF Council Coordinator, writes on the contributions of Karl Marx to the field of macroeconomics.
Principals of Macroeconomics: 3. Marx on Accumulation and Instability Read More »
All great thinkers run the danger of misinterpretation, in part because they tend to leave their innovative ideas incomplete due to the newness of those ideas. Misinterpretation also results from more pedestrian writers using those ideas without the insights of the originator. All four economists I discuss in this series of blogs suffered from misinterpretation
PEF Council Coordinator John Weeks writes for the blog to introduce his series ‘Principals of Macroeconomics’, with this piece exploring the definitions of economics.
Principals of Macroeconomics: 1. What is Economics? Read More »
‘Over five decades the principle that capitalist economies required active, continuous management by national governments established itself as policy orthodoxy, then the consensus abruptly ended.’ PEF Council Coordinator John Weeks reminds us what Keynes taught us about managing capitalism.
Market economies require policy management: What Keynes taught us Read More »
Two articles on the same day on austerity by Financial Times journalists Chris Giles and Delphine Strauss demonstrate political orientation generating political bias.
Political bias and political orientation: Maintaining journalistic integrity Read More »
Of the nineteen UK governments since the Second World War, only two have torn up the rule book and tried to build a better future, instead of simply recycling the tired slogans and policies of the past. The two governments that did try radical change – not always successfully – were those of Clement Attlee
Rethinking Britain – How to build a better future Read More »
“The Office of National Statistics recently released the public debt numbers for the second quarter of this year. As I show in my forthcoming book, Debt Delusion, the media and politicians misrepresent few public policy issues as frequently as they do the public debt. The misrepresentations begin with the basics, failure to treat the debt as an asset as well as a liability.”
Persistent debt confusion Read More »
