The Progressive Economy Forum and the University of Greenwich Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability presented Progressive Economics 2023 on Saturday 10 June at Greenwich University : A Festival for the Future of Economics
This was a conference of debate and education on the policies to tackle the economic challenges of cost-of-living crisis, global supply problems, environmental degradation, war, inequalities, Brexit, Covid-19, and the care economy. There were panels on green caring just transition, inequalities, cost-of-living crisis, Brexit, fiscal policy, monetary policy, industrial policy and macroeconomic policy coordination with MPs, academics, journalists, and researchers from think-tanks and civil society organisations.
Speakers included Lord Robert Skidelsky, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, John McDonnell MP, Molly Scott Cato (Green Party & Uni of Roehampton), Will Hutton (The Observer), Frank van Lerven (World Bank), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Banco Central de Chile), Carys Roberts (IPPR), Ann Pettifor (Prime), Rebekah Diski (NEF), David Barmes (Positive Money), Patrick Allen (PEF), Peter Holmes (Trade Policy Observatory), Shreya Nanda (Social Market Foundation), Janet Williamson (TUC), Geoff Tily (TUC), Danny Dorling (U o Oxford), Michael Jacobs (U o Sheffield), Guy Standing (SOAS), Susan Himmelweit (Open Uni), Stewart Lansley (Uni o Bristol), James Meadway (PEF), Jo Michell (UWE), Josh Ryan-Collins (UCL), Jan Toporowski (SOAS), Özlem Onaran (UoG), Mehmet Ugur(UoG), Maria Nikolaidi (UoG), Rob Calvert Jump (UoG), Ben Tippet (UoG), and Alex Guschanski (UoG), among others.
The programme of the conference can be downloaded here.
Photographs of the event can be accessed here
The recordings of the Progressive Economics 2022 conference are here.
