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.
Collapsed European Super League typifies today’s Rentier Capitalism Read More »
“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 – Britain’s Benefit Madness Read More »
“After decades of assault by state-shrinking ideologues, a collision of crises has revealed how only the power of good government can save us. Covid, climate catastrophe and Brexit crashed in on a public realm stripped bare by a decade of extreme austerity. Here all the best writers and thinkers on the good society show recovery is possible, with a radical rethink of all the old errors. Read this, and feel hope that things can change. ”
Polly Toynbee
PEF publishes blue print for the post-covid economy on 29th April 2021 Read More »
Will Hutton sets out five principles for a Charter for Work.
Will Hutton – A charter for work Read More »
The budget was singularly lacking in ambition when it came to the government’s role in creating a sustainable, inclusive and investment-led recovery.
There was no new green stimulus despite the UK facing a £100bn funding gap to reach its net-zero by 2050 target and despite its hosting of the global COP26 climate change summit this November.
The UK budget offered no vision for sustainable economic growth Read More »
“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. “
Robert Skidelsky comments on the 2021 budget Read More »
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.
Will the Biden Bounce be a Blip or a New Deal? Read More »
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson discuss how greater equality is the key to reining in consumerism and waste to achieve carbon neutrality and sustainable well being
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.
PEF Council letter to FT on social infrastructure Read More »
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 be a V-shaped recovery. Nevertheless, in a remarkable outbreak of forward-thinking, the committee decided that its inquiry would cover not just job protection but job
House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee reports on employment and Covid-19 Read More »
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