We need a Green, Purple, and Red New Deal to combat this economic crisis

Humanity is at a critical junction with intersecting crises of rising inequalities, ecological breakdown, war, and cost of living. As prices of energy, food and other essentials continue to soar across the world, threatening famine in the Middle East and Africa, inequalities in class, race, gender and across countries, the care and ecological crises exacerbate each other.  […]

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The Ukrainian War and the End of Globalization?

Economic sanctions against Russia are adding to a major redistribution of income from workers and middle-class consumers to profits in international trade. Jan Toporowski will be speaking on Russia’s war and its impacts at PEF’s Progressive Economics conference at the University of Greenwich on June 11. You can book your tickets here. Russia’s catastrophic attempt

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How bad will it get?

There’s an unpleasant calm before the storm feel to British politics at the minute. Anyone who remembers the period from the end of 2006 through to the debacle of autumn 2008, with the failure of Northern Rock as a half-way point, will be familiar with the sensation: of watching an increasing number of the proverbial

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PEF is hiring!

PEF is looking to expand its work over the coming year, as we move out of the first phase of the pandemic and seek to learn the lessons from the covid. Across the world, the demand for new approaches to the economy are growing, and PEF wants to help shape that debate in the UK.

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