Ann Pettifor: Debtonation

Speaking at GreenTalk 2011 in Bristol (UK), Ann Pettifor explains how national banks can at a stroke create credit to fund activities such as reconstruction following national disasters, and argues that the same approach can be taken to finance the 'green transition'.

Ann Pettifor is a director of PRIME, an economic think-tank, and a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She has won wide acclaim for her work in explaining how society can finance the Green New Deal. By helping us understand the 'magic' of quantitative easing, she explains that, as a society, we can afford what we can do - within the limits of the ecosystem. "About TEDx" In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local,...

Europe's Sovereign Debt Crisis 14 Jun 2010 About the Event: Governments across Europe are responding to market concerns over their public debt levels by implementing harsh austerity programmes and formulating unprecedented joint policy actions. At this seminar, jointly organised by the IIEA and the Law Society of Ireland's EU & International Affairs Committee, an expert panel evaluated the politico-economic context of the current crisis, its implications for the Euro and the EU,...

Hoe creëren centrale banken nieuw geld? (Ann Pettifor)Hoe creëren centrale banken nieuw geld? (Ann Pettifor)

Ann Pettifor of Advocacy International responds to comments and questions from the auidence at Church Action on Poverty's annual conference in 2009. How can we achieve real change in our economic structures?

Ann Pettifor of Advocacy International, speaking at Church Action on Poverty's conference about how we could run economics as if people mattered.

MO*lezing van Ann Pettifor over de Green New Deal van maandag van 15 juni en reactie van Thomas Leysen van het Verbond van Belgische Ondernemingen (VBO).

Wednesday 3rd December: Ann Pettifor discusses the comments of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. See more of her comment at www.debtonation.org.