Universal Basic Income or Job Guarantees – which way for progressives? Tues 5th February 2022 at 5pm
Guy Standing
January 23, 2022
Designing the First Labour Budget
Patrick Allen
September 23, 2019
Basic Income as Common Dividends – A Report for John McDonnell
Guy Standing
September 22, 2019
Basic Income as Common Dividends: A Report for the Shadow Chancellor
Guy Standing
May 7, 2019
2019 General Election: Analysis of Party Manifesto Pledges
Patrick Allen
December 4, 2019
Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy
Guy Standing
May 7, 2019
Labour should not back another Job Furlough
Guy Standing
December 30, 2021
The policy is uniquely flawed, with multiple faults. Of course, if government throws over £60 billion of subsidies to a minority of firms and workers, that will be popular with the recipients. But a scheme should be judged by what it does for the many, not the few, and for its opportunity cost.
Care and the Pandemic: a comment in reply to Sue Himmelweit
Guy Standing
October 26, 2021
For three hundred years, care work and care labour have been woefully trivialised or ignored by economists. One is inclined to think this is partly due to the domination of
The Threat of Extinction: Dismantle Rentier Capitalism Now
Guy Standing
August 17, 2021
Among the most depressing aspects of the latest IPCC report is the predictable lamentations by the usual suspects trotting out platitudes about the last chance to do something to stop
New publication – The NHS as Social Commons
Guy Standing
July 5, 2021
The Progressive Economy Forum is today publishing a short essay by economist Guy Standing on how the left can redefine its defence of the National Health Service – treating it
Why we should support the vaccine waiver
Guy Standing
May 11, 2021
In the past few months, a global campaign has grown in favour of suspending the IP protection for Covid vaccines during the pandemic. Over 100 countries have joined the campaign, with a prominent role played by India. At the beginning of May, the Biden Administration backed it, reversing the Trump administration’s opposition. Sadly, the British government has been one of the few rigidly opposing the idea of a waiver.
Collapsed European Super League typifies today’s Rentier Capitalism
Guy Standing
April 22, 2021
No economist should have been remotely surprised by the announcement of the European Super League. Its ignominious collapse could mark the beginning of a long-needed onslaught on the economic model on which it was based.
Will the Biden Bounce be a Blip or a New Deal?
Guy Standing
December 23, 2020
Will the election of Jo Biden lead into a new progressive era? This is a question being asked all over the world.
The precariat should lead the revolt to strengthen the backbones of those in positions to develop transformative alternatives. Otherwise the Biden Bounce will be a Blip.
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”
Labour must oppose the Government’s Regressive Policies
Guy Standing
July 21, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened inequalities and the measures taken by government, with tacit or explicit support of Labour and the TUC, have increased inequalities further.
Massive Attack support Basic Income
Guy Standing
July 15, 2020
PEF council member Guy Standing and the award winning band Massive Attack have combined to create a video supporting Universal Basic Income. Progressive economics set to music !
