Why it’s time to abolish the poverty premium
Lucie Russell
April 17, 2019
The Director of Fair By Design, writes on the necessity of abolishing the poverty premium for PEF’s 100 Policies to End Austerity series.
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Ending austerity: make tax fairer and more transparent
Richard Wilkinson
March 20, 2019
Radical tax reform is a prerequisite for making the economy work better for the whole country. The authors of The Spirit Level and the Inner Level write for PEF’s 100 Policies to End Austerity series.
Mis(Rule) Britannia: Brexit is the last gasp of empire
Danny Dorling
March 3, 2019
Brexit represents the last gasp of the British empire. The men who have led it cannot accept that the colonial era, and the exploited wealth that came with it, is over.
The UN is worried by UK austerity – so how do we end it?
Johnna Montgomerie
November 21, 2018
The UN has just issued a damning report on the UK’s policy failures over the past eight years, cataloguing and condemning the “unnecessary misery” inflicted by the policy.
Budget 2018: Progressive Perspectives
Patrick Allen
October 29, 2018
Since the introduction of austerity, the focus of each Budget has been on reducing the deficit and debt – to the detriment of the wider economy. In this podcast series, members of the PEF Council explore what a progressive approach to the Budget could look like.
The goals of economic policy
Richard Murphy
May 21, 2018
Our current economic policy framework leaves a vacuum of responsibility for delivering an economy in which people can flourish.
What might a progressive economy look like?
Danny Dorling
May 16, 2018
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.
