Archive

Month: October 2019

We need climate change accounting now

Richard Murphy, PEF Council Member, member of the Green New Deal Group and Director of the Corporate Accountability Network, writes for the PEF blog on the urgent need for sustainable accounting.

Industrial policy, then and now

This article reviews some of the issues concerning industrial policy that were aired in the interwar period. The debate needs to be revived, revisited and, where appropriate, revised to suit the present day, but on basic principles there is much to learn from the interwar discussions.

Market economies require policy management: What Keynes taught us

‘Over five decades the principle that capitalist economies required active, continuous management by national governments established itself as policy orthodoxy, then the consensus abruptly ended.’ PEF Council Coordinator John Weeks reminds us what Keynes taught us about managing capitalism.

The Green New Deal: Building a secure future

Richard Murphy, one of the Green New Deal’s original co-authors, outlines how he would finance green transformation – and build a fair economy for all at the same time.

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