Designing the First Labour Budget
Patrick Allen
September 23, 2019
2019 General Election: Analysis of Party Manifesto Pledges
Patrick Allen
December 4, 2019
John Maynard Keynes, Industrial Strategy and the Road not Taken
Sue Konzelmann
August 6, 2019
The Return of the State – authors introduce their chapters
Robert Skidelsky
June 8, 2021
see films clips of authors introducing their chapters in PEF’s book , The Return of the State
The Return of the State – Council members explain the purpose of the book
Robert Skidelsky
June 7, 2021
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
John Weeks – Obituaries and Tributes
Stephany Griffith-Jones
August 28, 2020
” John Weeks was a rigorous and progressive academic economist, committed to good economic policy and political action; at the same time he was a very kind, supportive and loyal colleague and friend”
Johnson’s Economic Recovery Plan – Not much of a “New Deal”
Sue Konzelmann
July 10, 2020
Sue Konzelmann writes on Boris Johnson’s Economic Recovery Plan. Focusing almost exclusively on the usual sectors – property, construction and finance – it’s likely to make an already unbalanced economy even more lopsided.
The 2020 Budget
Patrick Allen
March 27, 2020
The day following the 2020 budget, PEF interviewed five members of the PEF Council on the new budget and the changing economic direction of the United Kingdom. Here are the interviews in full.
Whatever the outcome of this election, we need to start thinking about where our society and economy are going
Sue Konzelmann
December 11, 2019
“Come the new year, we will have yet another new government, which will be faced – amongst other things – with the consequences of a decade’s worth of cuts to services that, one way or another, the majority of us rely on.”
What if Cameron’s austerity had been “harder and faster”?
Sue Konzelmann
September 20, 2019
The idea that a contraction in public spending could be more than replaced by private investment and enterprise – so-called “expansionary fiscal contraction” – is at best highly controversial.
Austerity – Demystifying a (still) poorly understood concept
Sue Konzelmann
September 13, 2019
‘In my new book, Austerity, we step back from the emotional reactions on both sides of the debate; and we carry out a much more forensic analysis, following the evidence – and only coming to a conclusion when all of it has been carefully sifted and considered’.
Rethinking Britain – How to build a better future
Sue Konzelmann
September 9, 2019
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
Who benefits from austerity – and who pays?
Sue Konzelmann
July 16, 2019
“In recent years, even organisations like the IMF and the World Economic Forum have recognised the dangers of inequality. In particular, they have both drawn attention to both the high and rising inequality caused by austerity, and its damaging effects on both social cohesion and economic growth.”
