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PEF publishes blue print for the post-covid economy on 29th April 2021

Patrick Allen April 14, 2021

“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

The UK budget offered no vision for sustainable economic growth

Josh Ryan-Collins March 5, 2021

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.

PEF Council letter to FT on social infrastructure

Susan Himmelweit December 16, 2020

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.

House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee reports on employment and Covid-19

Robert Skidelsky December 15, 2020

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

The public sector can generate wealth as well as debt

Josh Ryan-Collins November 26, 2020

Dag Detter, Stefan Holster and Josh Ryan-Collins In his spending review this week, the Chancellor made clear the scale of the economic crisis facing the UK. Much discussion has followed

The Provident Parent’s Guide to Government Debt

Jan Toporowski November 26, 2020

As government borrowing takes the ratio of public debt in Britain to national income above 100%, listen out for the alarms raised by fiscal conservatives that our profligacy is perpetuating debts that your children will have to pay

Sustaining and creating employment now and post Covid

Robert Skidelsky November 17, 2020

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.

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