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Both Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer chose to address the Confederation of British Industry conference this week. But far more interesting than the party leaders’ paeans to profit or to
An interesting debate was opened by Labour’s MP for Neath, Christina Rees, in Parliament’s Westminster Hall last week on Italy’s “Marcora Law”. This is the legislation introduced there in 1985
The Progressive Economy Forum is today publishing a detailed new guide to the economic programme of the Joe Biden administration. In less than six months since his inauguration as US
PEF Council member Robert Skidelsky advocates federal job guarantees and ‘compensated free trade’ to avoid inflation in the Biden plan
The paper outlines the case for fiscal policy to regain a permanent status of primacy in modern macroeconomic management, beyond the pandemic emergency and makes the case for public job programmes
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
“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 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 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.
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
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