Ann Pettifor: Debtonation
Apa itu uang? Itu mungkin tampak seperti jenis pertanyaan yang diajukan seseorang pada larut malam, menatap segenggam penuh tagihan melalui mata merah. Tetapi sebagai stoner queriesgo, yang ini sebenarnya sangat penting, karena jawabannya tergantung pada tingkat besar pada jenis uang yang Anda tanyakan, dan kepada siapa Anda mengajukan pertanyaan. Beberapa “uang” —sedikitnya persentase — adalah uang tunai. Sisanya adalah imajiner (“mata uang fiat,” seperti yang diketahui), jaringan...
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I’m Ann Pettifor, author and analyst of the global financial system, and co-author of The Green New Deal (2008). I predicted an Anglo-American debt-deflationary crisis back in 2003, and in September, 2006 published The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave). I am known for my work on the sovereign debts of low income countries and for leading an international movement for the cancellation of debts, Jubilee 2000.
Britain’s Flagging Economy: is Brexit to blame?
Article for Prospect Magazine 21 November, 2018. Ann Pettifor, Council Member, Progressive Economy Forum. According to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle there are limits to the precision with which we can be certain about the properties of a particle. ….the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. The very concepts of exact position and exact velocity together, in fact, have no meaning in nature. As in physics so in...
Read More »1919: Keynes’s revolutionary plan for the global economy
12 November, 2018 This year is the 150th anniversary of the TUC, and the 70th anniversary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. As part of the celebration of these achievements, the TUC’s Economics and Social Affairs department organised an event “Lessons from the Great Financial Crisis” – on 12th November, 2018 – the day after Armistice day, and 100 years after the ending of the First World War. Several speakers, including ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, were invited to...
Read More »The Crisis: causes and consequences.
The following article was written for the Progressive Economy Forum’s publication – Ten Years Since the Crash: Causes, Consequences and the Way Forward – circulated at Labour Party Conference in October, 2018. 13th September, 2018 To fix things we need to first tell ourselves the correct story about how we got here. Financialization is easily the least studied and least explored reason behind our inability to create shared prosperity – despite our being the richest and most successful...
Read More »Yours truly at National Theatre discussion on The Lehman Trilogy
After attending a performance of the Lehman Trilogy, I was honoured to join a panel at the National Theatre on 16th October, 2018 to discuss the play. Readers will know that the play was directed by Sam Mendes, and starred three great actors in all of the complex parts: Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles. It was, and is a tour de force, and has now moved to New York. At that invite-only side discussion of the play, an audience of 100 gathered in a private room at the NT. They...
Read More »10 years after – and nothing has changed.
The following is an interview with Yena Yoon – a financial journalist with Chosen Ilbo “the largest newspaper in South Korea” conducted on 12 February, 2018, but still relevant. What is the most remarkable change in financial market after 2008 global crisis do you see? Why do you think so? The most striking outcome from the global financial crisis of 2007-9 was that there was no structural change to the international financial architecture/system – the system that was at the heart of the...
Read More »How governments finance their spending (and its not from taxation).
Readers of this blog may know that Patrick Allen, founder of the Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) invited me to become a member of its distinguished Council in July this year. Other members include Professors John Weeks, Joseph Stiglitz, Stephany Griffiths-Jones, Robert Skidelsky, Daniela Gabor, Danny Darling, Ha Joon Chang and Doctors Johnna Montgomery, Geoff Tily, Will Hutton and Guy Standing. I am now supporting the work of the Council, and periodically writing for the Forum. The...
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Read More »The Indefatigable Efforts of J. M. Keynes
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