{"id":2876,"date":"2018-05-17T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2876"},"modified":"2020-03-10T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:09:58","slug":"pef-parliamentary-launch","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/events\/pef-parliamentary-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"PEF Parliamentary Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 May 2018, the Progressive Economy Forum launched in Parliament with speeches from <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/author\/patrick-allen\/\">Patrick Allen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/author\/ha-joon-chang\/\">Ha-Joon Chang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/members.parliament.uk\/member\/4657\/contact\">Anneliese Dodds MP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinelucas.com\/caroline\">Caroline Lucas MP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/author\/dr-johnna-montgomerie\/\">Johnna Montgomerie<\/a>. You can read a transcript of Patrick Allen&#8217;s speech at the launch <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/blog\/the-launch-of-the-progressive-economy-forum\/\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ha-Joon Chang:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/ha-joon-chang\">PEF Council Member<\/a>; Reader in the Political Economy of Development, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Economics is a political argument not a science&#39; &#8211; economist Ha-Joon Chang at last nights&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PEFlaunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PEFlaunch<\/a> of the Progressive Economy Forum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEF_online?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PEF_online<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2\">https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shu0CE1DBD\">pic.twitter.com\/shu0CE1DBD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CLASS (@CLASSthinktank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLASSthinktank\/status\/997069154229391360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Current eonomic system is &#39;socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor&#39; &#8211; Ha-Joon Chang at last night&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PEFlaunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PEFlaunch<\/a> of the Progressive Economy Forum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEF_online?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PEF_online<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6v7IRGJ6LK\">pic.twitter.com\/6v7IRGJ6LK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CLASS (@CLASSthinktank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLASSthinktank\/status\/997064936143585281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anneliese Dodds MP:\u00a0<\/strong>Shadow Minister for the Treasury<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Labour want a radical rethink of macroeconomic policy, longterm fiscal policy, reviewing Bank of England mandate, creating regional development banks&#39; &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnelieseDodds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnnelieseDodds<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKLabour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UKLabour<\/a> at Progressive Economy Forum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PEFlaunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PEFlaunch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2\">https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ezcD8XWFJp\">pic.twitter.com\/ezcD8XWFJp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CLASS (@CLASSthinktank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLASSthinktank\/status\/997189595296092160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Lucas MP: <\/strong>then Co-Leader of the Green Party, Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavillion<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Economic growth fast becoming uneconomic; social &amp; environmental costs outweighing the value of the growth&#39; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarolineLucas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CarolineLucas<\/a> co-leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGreenParty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheGreenParty<\/a> speaking at Progressive Economy Forum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PEFlaunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PEFlaunch<\/a> yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEF_online?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PEF_online<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2\">https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8mqZNMeinf\">pic.twitter.com\/8mqZNMeinf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CLASS (@CLASSthinktank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLASSthinktank\/status\/997177230731161602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Instead of restricting growth to level planet can sustain, govts indulge in fantasy of technological fixes&#39; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarolineLucas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CarolineLucas<\/a> coleader of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGreenParty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheGreenParty<\/a> at Progressive Economy Forum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PEFlaunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PEFlaunch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEF_online?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PEF_online<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2\">https:\/\/t.co\/BaKew95tj2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UAd2M9vVEn\">pic.twitter.com\/UAd2M9vVEn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CLASS (@CLASSthinktank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLASSthinktank\/status\/997182618570493954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnna Montgomerie:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/johnna-montgomerie\">PEF Council Member<\/a>;\u00a0Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_montgomerie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@j_montgomerie<\/a>: When you\u2019re suffering its easy to absorb slogans like taking back control; people want to believe renewal is around the corner, we must offer that vision. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PEFlaunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PEFlaunch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iuHk6OhV6L\">pic.twitter.com\/iuHk6OhV6L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CLASS (@CLASSthinktank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLASSthinktank\/status\/996818752380522497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Read a transcript of Johnna Montgomerie&#8217;s speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/2018\/05\/30\/the-crisis-of-the-debt-economy-and-the-end-of-austerity\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Picture1_peflaunch.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7594\" width=\"476\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Picture1_peflaunch.png 471w, https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Picture1_peflaunch-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><figcaption><em>Ha-Joon Chang; Faiza Shaheen<\/em>, Director of CLASS and Patrick Allen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/39877441@N05\/27751669555\/in\/photolist-K5HBn8-4QELxi-oPCnrm-pNttTK-Jhjyvi-aah9Bf-8AecQ6-4x2djs-cA2htS-67A7VX-67EttN-2FJ2oH-67Erkj-7UoCG3-QDQFB6-86tRx-gFUtZ5-6K9rFS-ao37Xz-8ZGqLY-aWQaci-pdYcZd-6YZPf3-bopgFz-7AutfZ-33Wab-a9Wi7j-kfxq5F-2auPHBU-YG9Mca-Tb4MUE-fznWXj-cAMNF3-eQFBVi-6K5jCz-5T6qkq-pvbNBR-pdYdfJ-6DF2kC-r6TgYJ-cC3HD7-dK1VUE-pUnTRm-aRTAjV-okJfzY-F2dgRz-dKY4Uy-6KaAqw-7axSsY-4GkwEF\">Flickr \/ Michael Levine-Clark<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our launch in Parliament with speeches on the need for progressive economic policies from Anneliese Dodds and Caroline Lucas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5064,"template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}