Taking the big picture, we can say for sure that those doing very well out of our generally stagnant economy are ...

This article first appeared in the Indian journal, Economic & Political Weekly, on 14 September 2024. Güney Düzçay ([email protected]) and T. Sabri Öncü ([email protected]) are economists based in ...

Our new research report, published today, looks at the state of the UK’s labour market, based on the most recent data from the Office for National Statistics. It compares these recent data with those ...

Keynes’s agenda for monetary reform evolved from an interplay between practical instinct in the face of real world events and the development a theoretical analysis of increasing sophistication and ...

Ann Pettifor’s speech to a meeting of the Malaysian Securities and Exchange Commission & the Institute of Islamic Studies, Ditchley Park, Oxford, March, 2015. Pettifor discusses usury, credit, ...

In 2011, the EC proposed a Financial Transactions Tax to raise revenue from the financial sectors. While they broadly agree with the objectives behind the FTT, Grahl and Lysandrou argue that the ...

Reinforcing the case made in the Prime publication ‘The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne’ in 2010, this study examines the impact of government stance on public debt for eleven OECD countries from ...

An appeal to the Bank of England: The ‘rate of interest’ has not been low. Financial liberalisation led to a steep increase the complex of interest rates for all kinds of borrowing, long and short, ...

Reading GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History by Diane Coyle (2013) led to the question – when and how did GDP growth become the central focus of policymaking? Younger readers may be more surprised by ...

In this latest PRIME publication, Geoff Tily argues that parallels between events in Greece today and Germany in the 1920s go much further than commonly understood, and the policy implications are ...

Weeks critiques the government’s “deficit disorder” approach to economic recovery and argues that prioritising deficit reduction is unfounded. A policy reversal based on fiscal stimulus, public ...

This analysis was co-authored by Geoff Tily and Ann Pettifor and published by the New Economics Foundation under the title, “The cuts won’t work: Why spending on a Green New Deal will reduce the ...