The fallacy of the savings rate
John Weeks
April 25, 2019
A critique of the Financial Times’ analysis of the ‘UK’s low savings rate’. Austerity and financialisation, not profligate shoppers, are to blame.
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Month: April 2019
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Why it’s time to abolish the poverty premium
Lucie Russell
April 17, 2019
The Director of Fair By Design, writes on the necessity of abolishing the poverty premium for PEF’s 100 Policies to End Austerity series.
Measuring austerity
John Weeks
April 9, 2019
What would it mean to reverse austerity – for the NHS, for education, for local government?
How austerity is made: economic storytelling about debt
Johnna Montgomerie
April 8, 2019
To move away from debt-dependent growth and escape the ‘boom, bust, bailout, austerity’ cycle, we need to cultivate our powers of economic storytelling.
Stop councils selling off public land
Brett Christophers
April 3, 2019
The author of The New Enclosure writes on the case to end the privatisation of public land for PEF’s 100 Policies to End Austerity series.
We need ideologically and politically independent macroeconomic assessments
John Weeks
April 1, 2019
The current lack of professionally reliable forecasting has a straightforward solution.
