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What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? Ann Pettifor’s latest book – The Case for the Green New Deal – now available to purchase at Verso Books.

Settling the public sector pay disputes now – modest cost, big benefits

Jeremy Smith

How does Labour rebuild trust on the economy? Listen to the public

Ann Pettifor

From a troubled horizon to a better world?

Richard Kozul-Wright

This time, Mr Sunak has got it wrong

Jeremy Smith

Remembering John Weeks

Ann Pettifor

We can get killed…..

Ann Pettifor

Ways & means of paying Government’s growing bills – financing or cashflow?

Jeremy Smith

Bailey goes up an inflation blind alley – but what role for BoE ‘monetary financing’?

Jeremy Smith

The macroeconomic imperative of nationalisation

Ann Pettifor

The Treasury’s Budget Report breaks the law on fiscal rules

Jeremy Smith

A farewell to ‘fiscal rules’?

Jeremy Smith

Feeble UK productivity – it’s still down to austerity and lack of demand

Jeremy Smith

Who Pays the Corporate Income Tax? Don’t believe the IFS

John Weeks

The Beauty of a Green New Deal is that it will pay for itself.

Ann Pettifor

Rethinking Britain – How to build a better future

Sue Konzelmann

From Hammond on to Johnson – where next for fiscal policy?

Jeremy Smith

Economic Guidelines for a better European Union

Prime Economics

UK economy 2010-2018 – the devastating impact of the age of austerity

Jeremy Smith

The economic consequences of Brexit?

Ann Pettifor

The EU’s dysfunctional fiscal rules empower the far right, both in Italy and elsewhere

Jeremy Smith

Budget Special: To tackle austerity, Britain needs (at least) a £50 billion increase in public spending

Ann Pettifor

‘Deficit Financing’ or ‘Deficit-Reduction Financing?’.

Ann Pettifor

What Is Wrong with the Bank of England’s Decision Today?

Ann Pettifor

Same old same old…Tory austerity

John Weeks

Free markets & the decline of democracy

John Weeks

The Shadow Chancellor and the government’s debt interest payments

Jeremy Smith

Those who helped break the economy cannot fix it

Ann Pettifor

The collapse of social democracy

Ann Pettifor

OECD ignores deficit hawks, backs higher public investment in infrastructure & people

Jeremy Smith

The IFS: viewing the economy through wrong end of a telescope

Ann Pettifor

Lessons for the Euro Area – a simple model of savings, debt & private spending

Andrea Terzi

Conservative budget deficits – on average, they’re over twice the size of Labour’s!

Jeremy Smith

‘Replete with folly and injustice’ – Hammond follows in Osborne’s footsteps

Jo Michell

Greek Tragedy in European Theatre: the Economic Consequences of Depression Economics

Ioannis Theodossiou

George Osborne’s Fiscal Targets

Graham Gudgin

Osborne, the tax man

Richard Murphy

Eurozone’s dangerous deficit fetishism – still boosting unemployment

Jeremy Smith

What fiscal rules now? Comparing Hammond (July 2016) & Corbyn (July 2015)

Jeremy Smith

Statement from members of Labour’s Economic Advisory Commitee

Prime Economics

OECD Chief Economist: “urgent need” to deploy fiscal policy to counter slowdown

Jeremy Smith

So. Farewell Sir Nicholas. Yes, you were monumentally wrong

Jeremy Smith

Balancing public budgets: the impossible in search of the undesirable

John Weeks

Mr Osborne’s untruth: the Chart that shames the Treasury

Jeremy Smith

Mr Osborne and the economists’ advice

Prime Economics

Budget 2016 and reality: government has little control over the deficit.

Graham Gudgin

The British economy is even “smaller” than the Chancellor asserts

Ann Pettifor

The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne – updated

Geoff Tily

The boom, not the slump, is the time for austerity – Guardian Letters

Prime Economics

EREP Budget 2016 Report: “The Gap Widens”

Jeremy Smith

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? Ann Pettifor’s latest book – The Case for the Green New Deal – now available to purchase at Verso Books.

Authors

Adam Barrett

Ahmet Öncü & T.Sabri Öncü

Anastasia Nesvetailova

Andrea Terzi

Andrew Simms

Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor, Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci