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Patrick Allen
Chair and Founder of PEF
Robert Skidelsky
Crossbench peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University
John Weeks
PEF Council Coordinator 2018 - 2020
Natalya Naqvi
Assistant Professor in International Political Economy
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University
Sue Konzelmann
Reader in Management at Birkbeck, University of London
Guy Standing
Labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS
Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford
Adam Peggs
PEF's Communications and Events Manager
Richard Murphy
Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London
Susan Himmelweit
Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Open University
Daniela Gabor
Professor of Economics and Macrofinance at UWE Bristol

Published on December 4, 2019

2019 General Election: Analysis of Party Manifesto Pledges

In this report, PEF has called upon its Council Members to express their views on key policy areas for the 2019 General Election. In arguably the most important election contest in decades the choices before the electorate are stark and could shape the direction of the country for many years to come.

Here, Council Members explore the manifesto pledges and policy agendas put forward in the election, judging their economic merits and their chances of meeting the great challenges of the 21st century.

PEF Provocation – Market versus planning

Carolina Alves January 13, 2022

The Progressive Economy Forum put together a panel for The World Transformed festival, held in Brighton in September 2021, to discuss ‘bold new proposals and policies’ that the left should

A Progressive Plan for Care

Susan Himmelweit October 21, 2021

The pandemic has exposed how dependent on care we are not only as individuals, but as a society. But our care system, already struggling well before the outbreak of the

Bidenomics: the economic strategy of the Joe Biden administration

James Meadway July 5, 2021

In less than six months since his inauguration as US President, Joe Biden’s administration has staked out a new agenda for US policymaking, breaking with the previous four decades of

Comments on the government’s new economic direction and a job guarantee

Robert Skidelsky January 21, 2020

The following is a transcript of PEF Council member Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on 9th January 2020 commenting on the economic direction of the United Kingdom’s Conservative government and the case for introducing a public sector job guarantee as an automatic stabiliser.