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 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 International Monetary Fund (IMF) should agree a rapid issuance of at least $500bn in international liquidity, in the form of additional Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)
Urgent measures needed for the international financial system Read More »
To avert permanent economic damage during the worst slump for 300 years, the government has to provide emergency credit to business, guarantee loans, offer grants, defer tax and rate payments and directly pay the wages of furloughed workers
A Financial Revolution is Needed – in Weeks Read More »
Of the nineteen UK governments since the Second World War, only two have torn up the rule book and tried to build a better future, instead of simply recycling the tired slogans and policies of the past. The two governments that did try radical change – not always successfully – were those of Clement Attlee
Rethinking Britain – How to build a better future Read More »
A critique of the Financial Times’ analysis of the ‘UK’s low savings rate’. Austerity and financialisation, not profligate shoppers, are to blame.
The fallacy of the savings rate Read More »
