{"id":2889,"date":"2018-09-25T16:56:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2889"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:43:04","slug":"pef-at-the-labour-party-conference","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/events\/pef-at-the-labour-party-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"PEF at the Labour Party Conference 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>25 September 2018, Labour Party Conference, Liverpool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Labour Party Conference came almost exactly a decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, one of the key turning points in the Global Financial Crisis. This was the focus of the Progressive Economy Forum\u2019s fringe meeting, where we launched our first publication&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/publications\/10-years-since-the-crash\/\">10 Years Since The Crash: Causes, Consequences and the Way Forward<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and hosted a discussion on these themes, led by the following PEF Council members and authors of the pamphlet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Patrick Allen:&nbsp;<\/strong>Founder and Chair of the Progressive Economy Forum; Senior Partner at Hodge Jones &amp; Allen LLP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ann Pettifor:&nbsp;<\/strong>Author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/2706-the-production-of-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Production of Money<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Verso, 2017) and the prescient&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gb\/book\/9780230007857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Coming First World Debt Crisis<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Palgrave, 2006); Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primeeconomics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PRIME Economics<\/a>; Leader of Jubilee 2000 campaign<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prof John Weeks:&nbsp;<\/strong>Professor Emeritus in Development Economics at SOAS; Author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthempress.com\/economics-of-the-1-percent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economics of the 1%<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Anthem, 2014) and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=M_vIBQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT33&amp;lpg=PT33&amp;dq=routledge+john+weeks+irreconcilable+inconsistencies+of+neoclassical+macroeconomics&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=-uTTZ3f5oL&amp;sig=EoYi1SI_3JZEb1cF7tI0Qb-YzIo&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=0U2lVJGKL5HiaNHKgpgJ&amp;ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;q=routledge%20john%20weeks%20irreconcilable%20inconsistencies%20of%20neoclassical%20macroeconomics&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Irreconcilable Inconsistencies of Neoclassical Macroeconomics<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Routledge, 2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr Johnna Montgomerie:&nbsp;<\/strong>Reader in International Political Economy at King\u2019s College London; Author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/politybooks.com\/bookdetail\/?isbn=9781509525393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Should we abolish household debts?<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Polity, November 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were thrilled to be joined by delegates from Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) across the country and are grateful for their contributions, especially on how we can best help activists advocate for a progressive economics in their communities and on the doorstep \u2013 this has influenced our planned programme of work for the future. We were also happy to be joined by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, in a show of support for our work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27-300x225.jpeg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27-510x382.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27-1080x810.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-25-at-19.55.27.jpeg 1600w\" alt=\"Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and PEF Chair Patrick Allen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and PEF Chair Patrick Allen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a way of focussing the debate on what a progressive economic policy would look like, we also discussed the burgeoning direction of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/2018\/09\/10\/100-policies-end-austerity\/\"><em>100 Policies to End Austerity&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>project, a series of progressive economic policy proposals in the form of short, clear blog posts, delivered in collaboration with openDemocracy and The Conversation. You can see the first few entries on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiveeconomyforum.com\/blog\/\">our blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To keep updated on the Progressive Economy Forum\u2019s events and other work, you can follow us on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pef_online\">@pef_online<\/a>) and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dDCM31\">sign up to our mailing list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oneterry\/19408979129\/in\/photolist-vz76ic-k97mSK-ewzWGE-gQNegd-7SLcW5-gvNDN5-nqAHNG-mpVGZM-7NZeKX-QKXTqM-krWgUv-qpeRtK-RAT6pe-uYfT43-RdWQ8T-RDCst1-PQ1e9c-kkqyDC-pLwyCa-7ML9Wg-gqDohH-vrHL8R-gsZ47L-rEAB3W-jAekUw-KrK4UU-kRPf8H-Lypo41-daCVLq-gMcCYR-RojEuB-kzt7rN-hdhbEw-APBGsL-C6ZmzF-ndtzAp-23UjVBU-sE9oB4-oEq6aA-s43GCb-qjzMF9-jwkBr2-5hmthM-QswtfA-bwMoRc-b4XBUk-wtBVpV-tHdWnc-21ovaFm-pKYDpJ\">Terry Kearney \/ Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEF&#8217;s fringe meeting at Labour Party 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