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The following is a transcript of Patrick Allen’s speech at the launch of the Progressive Economy Forum in which he discusses his motivations for establishing the forum and the damage wreaked by austerity policies.
When change truly happens it at first strikes seasoned commentators as a pipe-dream; then undesirable; then ‘just about possible’ once the clamour for change becomes overwhelming. Finally change happens and the memories of the commentators change with it.
Patrick Allen explains why he founded the Progressive Economy Forum and why we need a progressive economics more than ever.
Creating a progressive British economy, an economic system fit for human life, requires at the least four fundamental reforms, whose purpose would be to restrict severely the economic and political power of the infamous 1%.
It’s amazing how quickly you can reimagine the economy and the policies that would go with it once you connect it with the outcomes you want to see.
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