

Will Hutton
Co-chair of the Purposeful Company. Principal Hertford College Oxford 2015- 2020, Co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre
Will Hutton is a political economist and a columnist for the Observer, where he was Editor, then Editor-in-Chief for four years. Will’s best-known book is probably The State We’re In, one of the top-selling books on political economy since 1945. Since then he has published prominently on a wide range of topics, with titles including The State to Come; On the Edge: Essays on a Runaway World (with Anthony Giddens), an analysis of globalisation; and The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century. His next book Them and Us – an examination of fairness and due desert in driving vigorous market economies – was published in 2010, and the forward-looking How Good We Can Be in 2015. His latest book Saving Britain: How We Can Prosper in a New European Future (co-authored with Andrew Adonis) was released in June 2018. He tweets @williamnhutton.


Change Britain, Stop Brexit

Change Britain, stop Brexit

The Return of the State – authors introduce their chapters
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
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State

Will Hutton – A charter for work
Will Hutton sets out five principles for a Charter for Work.

Sustaining and creating employment now and post Covid
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.

A Financial Revolution is Needed – in Weeks
To avert permanent economic damage during the worst slump for 300 years, the government has to provide emergency credit to business, guarantee loans, offer grants, defer tax and rate payments and directly pay the wages of furloughed workers