Ann Pettifor: Debtonation

January 14th, 2016 Figure 1 source: @SoberLook @SoberLook yesterday shared this chart of collapsing UK inflation expectations from Barclays Research UK, heightening fears of a deflationary spiral. As noted in an earlier blog, the year 2015 began with the Chancellor, George Osborne ‘welcoming’ the news that inflation had fallen in December to 0.5% – more than 1% below the official target. The FT declared that “this is almost certainly “good deflation”.   Jittery stock markets are now...

Paul Mason, Economics Editor for Channel 4 News, presents the thesis from his latest book 'PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future' at St Paul's Cathedral for an event organised by St Paul's Institute and Penguin UK. Responses from Ann Pettifor (Director, PRIME) and Phillip Blond (Director, ResPublica), Chaired by Elizabeth Oldfield (Director, Theos) on 3rd November 2015.

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Ann Pettifor quite rightly puts Christine Lagarde in her place.

Extract from the Renegade Economist talk show pilot

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ORIGINAL AIR DATE: January 7, 2015 To discuss the UK and the ECB, Erin sat down with Dr. Ann Pettifor – director of Prime Economics and author of “Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance." Recently, a shortfall in tax revenue for the UK government has called the ruling coalition's deficit reduction targets into question. Ann tells us whether the British economy is strong enough to meet Chancellor Osborne's deficit targets. Ann also gives us an extended analysis on...

The third Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies (OCIS) and Fajr Capital Seminar. Here, Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) discusses how Keynesian monetary theory and policy could embed a Quranic model of finance.

The New Putney Debates 2014 (Occupy London initiative) Is Capitalism Part of the Answer? Ann Pettifor is a Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), Honorary Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre at City University (CITYPERC) and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, London. The Debate is facilitated or chaired by Amrita Bhohi, Proposing the motion is Mark Goyder, founder director of Tomorrows’ Company, the City’s leading think-tank. He is opposed by...

Ann Pettifor speaks The Debate is facilitated or chaired by Amrita Bhohi, Proposing the motion is Mark Goyder, founder director of Tomorrows’ Company, the City’s leading think-tank. He is opposed by Professor David Graeber of LSE. The motion is seconded by Dr Dave Dewhurst, of Occupy London, (emphatically speaking in his own capacity). The concluding argument for the case against capitalism will be Dr Ann Pettifor of PRIME Speakers biographies: Mark Goyder Mark Goyder is an award-winning...