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 Peppa Pig were the comments made the same day by the CBI’s new Director General, Tony Danker. Greeted with pearl-clutching in the Daily Mail, rentagob […]
Shots at redemption, or cartoons in a cartoon graveyard? Read More »
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 to allow workers’ threatened with redundancy the option of exercising a right to purchase the company. Two government-administered funds provide the loan capital needed to
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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 President, Joe Biden’s administration has staked out a new agenda for US policymaking, breaking with the previous four decades of Republican and Democratic domestic economic
New PEF publication – guide to Joe Biden’s economic programme Read More »
PEF Council member Robert Skidelsky advocates federal job guarantees and ‘compensated free trade’ to avoid inflation in the Biden plan
The Biden plan would be improved by federal job guarantees and compensated free trade Read More »
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
Reinstating fiscal policy for normal times Read More »
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
The Return of the State – Council members explain the purpose of the book Read More »
“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
PEF publishes blue print for the post-covid economy on 29th April 2021 Read More »
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 UK budget offered no vision for sustainable economic growth Read More »
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.
PEF Council letter to FT on social infrastructure Read More »
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 as to the sustainability of the current spending commitments and public sector debt. Announcements of public sector pay freezes and cuts to foreign aid have
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