Ann Pettifor: Debtonation

Ann Pettifor was our guest speaker ahead of our CLP AGM on 29th March 2018. The subject of her talk was 'Housing' and how only radical reform will counter the problem of inflated house prices and clamp down on property speculation. Ann, a Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), is a member of John McDonnell’s Economic Advisory Board and is regularly invited by the mainstream news channels to comment on economic policies and the global banking system. In a recent article for...

Day 2, 27th April 2017 Keynotes: Valuing and financing national infrastructure: pressing needs, possible solutions. Chair: Andy Brown, University of Leeds. Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy. Day 1, 26th April 2017 Parallel Session II - Transport. Chair: Beck Loo, University of Hong Kong Land Value Uplift, Valuation of Streets and Multi-Sectoral Projects - John Nellthorp, University. Day 2, 27th April 2017 Parallel Session IV - Sustainability, Cultural and Social Value. Chair: Tom...

Economist Ann Pettifor reacts to the Chancellors' spring statement

This piece appeared in the London Observer on Sunday, 4th March, 2018 By asserting the policy of “monetary radicalism and fiscal conservatism”, Osborne and his colleagues ensured that those responsible for the crisis benefited from the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme, which inflated asset prices largely owned by the more affluent. Simultaneously, the Conservative government, aided by Orange Book Liberal Democrats like Danny Alexander, used austerity to shift the burden...

This piece appeared in the London Observer on Sunday, 4th March, 2018 By asserting the policy of “monetary radicalism and fiscal conservatism”, Osborne and his colleagues ensured that those responsible for the crisis benefited from the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme, which inflated asset prices largely owned by the more affluent. Simultaneously, the Conservative government, aided by Orange Book Liberal Democrats like Danny Alexander, used austerity to shift the burden of the...

This was published on the PRIME site on the 25th February, 2018. Britain is led today by deeply divided political parties. Our leaders have many policies, but no inspiring vision for Britain’s future – either within, or outside the EU. As President Roosevelt once famously said: “where there is no vision, the people perish”. The peoples of the European Union do have a vision – the pursuit of peace and stability across the continent on the basis of European values (including the...

This was published on the PRIME site on the 25th February, 2018. Britain is led today by deeply divided political parties. Our leaders have many policies, but no inspiring vision for Britain’s future – either within, or outside the EU. As President Roosevelt once famously said: “where there is no vision, the people perish”. The peoples of the European Union do have a vision – the pursuit of peace and stability across the continent on the basis of European values (including the maintenance...

Early in February, a leading Brexiteer MP (Jacob Rees-Mogg MP) delivered a Daily Express petition to No 10 calling for an end to “foreign aid madness” – an event that gathered virtually no publicity. Why should it have? Jacob Rees-Mogg knows very little, and cares less about international development. The story died. A new element was needed to inflame opposition to Britain’s foreign aid budget. Thus began the search for a six-year old OXFAM sex scandal, which fitted the framing of ‘foreign...

Early in February, a leading Brexiteer MP (Jacob Rees-Mogg MP) delivered a Daily Express petition to No 10 calling for an end to “foreign aid madness” – an event that gathered virtually no publicity. Why should it have? Jacob Rees-Mogg knows very little, and cares less about international development. The story died. A new element was needed to inflame opposition to Britain’s foreign aid budget. Thus began the search for a six-year old OXFAM sex scandal, which fitted the framing of...

This time with a link to the You Tube version of the RoundTable. Money for nothing – should everyone get a universal basic income? Would it, as some believe, encourage prosperity? Or have the opposite effect? Ann Pettifor in a TV discussion with David Foster of TRT World, Matt Kerr of the Scottish Labour Party, Sam Demetrium of Adam Smith Institute and Robb Lugg, a Trades Unionist – on 7th February, 2018. Related Posts