The Progressive Economy Forum brings together a council of eminent economists and academics to develop a new macroeconomic programme for the UK. We publish research and policy proposals, run a wide variety of events, and manage a blog featuring authoritative analysis of current issues facing the economy
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Latest publications:

PEF Provocation – Market versus planning
Carolina Alves
January 13, 2022
The 2021 Budget – comment by PEF Director James Meadway
October 28, 2021
Letter from Economists and Think Tanks about the 2021 budget
October 22, 2021
The Economics of Brexit and Immigration
October 2, 2021
Inflation, interest rates, locusts
James Meadway
October 20, 2021
The UK’s official measure of inflation, the Office for National Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in slightly lower than widely anticipated, falling from 3.0% in August to 2.9% in

Patrick Allen
Chair and Founder of PEF

Ann Pettifor
Political economist, author and public speaker.

Johnna Montgomerie
Reader in International Political Economy at King’s College London

Stephany Griffith-Jones
Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University

Robert Skidelsky
Crossbench peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University

Josh Ryan-Collins
Head of Finance and Macroeconomics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Stewart Lansley
Visiting fellow at the University of Bristol.

Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford

Simon Wren-Lewis
Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government

Kate Pickett
Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York

Jan Toporowski
Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies

Ha-Joon Chang
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Sue Konzelmann
Reader in Management at Birkbeck, University of London

Guy Standing
Labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS

Susan Himmelweit
Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Open University

Geoff Tily
Senior Economist at the TUC

Natalya Naqvi
Assistant Professor in International Political Economy

Carolina Alves
Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics

Will Hutton
Co-chair of the Purposeful Company. Principal Hertford College Oxford 2015- 2020, Co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre

Faiza Shaheen
Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS)

Daniela Gabor
Professor of Economics and Macrofinance at UWE Bristol

Michael Jacobs
Professorial Fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute

MSc in Governance, Economics and Public Policy at Birkbeck College
PEF is endorsing the new MSc in Governance, Economics and Public Policy at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Public Lecture Series
PEF’s public lecture series aims to improve the public understanding of economics and to develop a new, progressive macroeconomic programme for the 21st century.

Workshops
Our workshop series aims to develop a progressive economic programme and map out a positive alternative to neoliberalism.

100 Policies to End Austerity
PEF Council member Dr Johnna Montgomerie is curating 100 Policies to End Austerity, a blog series featuring short, succinct policy proposals from PEF Council members and other thinkers about how we can transform our economy for the better, in partnership with openDemocracy and The Conversation.
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The economic mainstream is getting inflation wrong
James Meadway
January 19, 2022

Labour should not back another Job Furlough
Guy Standing
December 30, 2021

Interview with socialist Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s economic advisor, Stephany Griffiths-Jones
Stephany Griffith-Jones
December 21, 2021

Stewart Lansley – Why luxury capitalism is the enemy of social progress
Stewart Lansley
December 9, 2021

PEF Brexit expert webinar recording available
PEF
November 30, 2021

Shots at redemption, or cartoons in a cartoon graveyard?
James Meadway
November 25, 2021
Inflation is here to stay, but not for the reasons you think – a response to Martin Wolf
James Meadway
November 19, 2021

Bank of England holds rate steady, more pessmistic about the future
James Meadway
November 4, 2021

The UK has embraced the big state — but lacks a vision for it
Josh Ryan-Collins
November 2, 2021

Care and the Pandemic: a comment in reply to Sue Himmelweit
Guy Standing
October 26, 2021
New Bank of England chief economist interviewed, and it’s not good
James Meadway
October 25, 2021
Inflation, interest rates, locusts
James Meadway
October 20, 2021