Universal Basic Income or Job Guarantees – which way for progressives? Tues 5th February 2022 at 5pm
Guy Standing
January 23, 2022
Launch of PEF’s new book The Return of the State
Patrick Allen
May 6, 2021
‘Keynes for Today: A Discussion’ with Giorgio La Malfa
Robert Skidelsky
November 15, 2019
The Case for the Reinstatement of Fiscal Policy
Robert Skidelsky
November 12, 2019
How to achieve shorter working hours – a report for the Shadow Chancellor
Robert Skidelsky
September 12, 2019
Keynes for Today: Lessons for the Left
Robert Skidelsky
September 19, 2018
Comments on the government’s new economic direction and a job guarantee
Robert Skidelsky
January 21, 2020
2019 General Election: Analysis of Party Manifesto Pledges
Patrick Allen
December 4, 2019
How to achieve shorter working hours
Robert Skidelsky
September 12, 2019
Keynes for Today
Robert Skidelsky
September 19, 2018
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Robert Skidelsky
September 24, 2021
Quantitative easing risks generating its own boom-and-bust cycles, and can thus be seen as an example of state-created financial instability. Governments must abandon the fiction that central banks create money independently from government, and must themselves spend the money created at their behest.
The Biden plan would be improved by federal job guarantees and compensated free trade
Robert Skidelsky
June 17, 2021
PEF Council member Robert Skidelsky advocates federal job guarantees and ‘compensated free trade’ to avoid inflation in the Biden plan
Reinstating fiscal policy for normal times
Robert Skidelsky
June 9, 2021
The paper outlines the case for fiscal policy to regain a permanent status of primacy in modern macroeconomic management, beyond the pandemic emergency and makes the case for public job programmes
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
Robert Skidelsky – Britain’s Benefit Madness
Robert Skidelsky
April 22, 2021
“Work is the ultimate escape from poverty. But the futile sort demanded by the United Kingdom’s income-support scheme puts many of society’s weakest members on a path to nowhere, because it reflects a welfare ideology that fails to distinguish fantasy from reality”
Robert Skidelsky comments on the 2021 budget
Robert Skidelsky
March 5, 2021
“I am highly sceptical about this story of ‘pent-up demand’. A shrinkage in national income by 10% implies a fall, not rise, in national saving. Saving out of income may go up, but income itself is lower. That’s why it’s not like in a war, when you have full employment and rising wages, but less to spend money on. “
PEF Council letter to FT on social infrastructure
Susan Himmelweit
December 16, 2020
The regeneration of Britain’s ‘national infrastructure’ must include investment in ‘social infrastructure’ such as childcare, schools and universities, regional theatres, orchestras, common spaces, and local sports.
House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee reports on employment and Covid-19
Robert Skidelsky
December 15, 2020
When the economic affairs committee of the House of Lords agreed in July 2020 to direct its next inquiry into “employment and Covid-19” the general expectation was that there would
Sustaining and creating employment now and post Covid
Robert Skidelsky
November 17, 2020
The focus of economic policy should be on maintaining a high, sustainable level of employment. This is correct theoretically, practically, and socially. It counterbalances the capitalist market system’s tendency not to create a high level of employment.
