Ann Pettifor: Debtonation

What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it? These are the questions answered in the new book from my guest on the podcast today, leading political economist Ann Pettifor. Ann is a UK-based economist, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), an honorary research fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre at City University, London and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She is also executive director of the consultancy Advocacy...

Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor Chair: Professor Wouter Den Haan Recorded on 8 February 2017 at Old Theatre, Old Building Political economist Ann Pettifor demystifies history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Arguing that democracies can reclaim control over money production, Pettifor sets out the possibility of linking the money in our pockets (or on our smartphones) to the change we want to see in the world around us. Ann Pettifor (@AnnPettifor) is a political economist with...

For more on the ECB's decision, Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Ann Pettifor, a global financial system analyst and macroeconomics policy research director.

Image from Jeff Djevdet – Flickr It will take Big Money to steer Britain through this rocky period. Instead, Chancellor Hammond has promised to continue slashing the very departmental expenditure essential to smooth the path. We must conclude that he does not wish to invest in a safe Brexit at all. We live in perilous times. The demand by millions of people for protection from austerity and globalisation has fuelled support for extreme right-wing parties across the world. The possible...

October 5th, 2016 Ann Pettifor spoke on a Bloomberg TV panel with Gerard Lyons, Ambassador Paquale Terracciano and host Francine Lacqua on The Pulse.  The U.K. services industry recorded a decent expansion in the first month after Brexit, all but scrubbing the chances of the U.K. economy contracting in the third quarter. The data make it more likely that that Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee will refrain fromeasing further this year, although policy makers will want to see the...

October 5th, 2016 Ann Pettifor recently travelled to New Zealand at the invitation of Professor Ian Shirley of The Policy Observatory  and Vice Chancellor Derek McCormack at Auckland University of Technology, and also Mike Smith of the New Zealand Fabian Society. She spent 10 days delivering public lectures on economics in Wellington and Auckland. In one of her media interviews Ann spoke to the formidable and highly regarded Kathryn Ryan, host of Nine to Noon on Radio NZ about the...

"What’s wrong about the global economy is that we don’t have a stake in it." WATCH the full, fascinating video by one of the UK’s leading economists, Ann Pettifor, asking what if there were more co-ops giving people, like taxi drivers, a stake in the businesses they rely on: http://bit.ly/29Pz405 Co-ops offer a way for more people to take control of the economy. Tell us how your co-op is doing in the first ever co-operative census: http://bit.ly/coopcensus

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ann Pettifor discussed how Phillip Hammond’s stint at the treasury will differ to Osbornes on Share Radio yesterday, with their regular economics commentator John Weeks. Listen to the full show here. 

July 13th, 2016 On the 1st July Ann Pettifor spoke at the FT’s Festival of Finance. Ann gave a presentation on ‘The New Nationalism: the money story’ and discussed nationalism, and Polanyi’s Double Movement. She was joined by a panel made up of Frances Coppola, Tyler Cowen, and Srinivas Thiruvadanthai. The discussion was moderated by John Authers. The full podcast is available on FT Alphaville. 

June 29th, 2016 In September 2015, we were pleased to accept the invitation to serve on an Economic Advisory Council (EAC).  We felt strongly that it represented an opportunity to develop a vision of a progressive economic policy for Britain that departed from the destructive austerity narrative. Our collective view is that the EAC, and its various policy review groups, has indeed had a positive influence on the development of Labour’s economic policy, and we hope it continues whatever...