New Economics Foundation

Blog Making government spending matter GDP, inflation and the government deficit reign supreme in the budget - but are they giving us the results that we want? By Daniel Button 10 March 2021 Our dominant approach to policymaking too often focuses on an excessively narrow...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: What’s Brexit done to fishing and farming? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF Associate Fellow, Chris Williams By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 02 March 2021 We were supposed to have cast off the shackles of EU rules around farming and fishing....

Blog Some jobs won’t come back Over the last year, half a million people have lost jobs that will never return. Rishi Sunak has a chance to support them By Alex Chapman, Chaitanya Kumar, Alfie Stirling 01 March 2021 Ahead of the...

Blog Millions facing an income crisis across the country A third of the UK population is expected to fall into hardship by May By Sarah Arnold, Lukasz Krebel 01 March 2021 Things are maybe, possibly, starting to look up. The vaccination programme has...

Blog 10 years of hollowing out our benefits system If we’d stuck with the social security we had a decade ago, 1.5 million fewer people would be living in poverty By Sarah Arnold, Dominic Caddick, Lukasz Krebel 20 February 2021 Our...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Vaccine Nationalism Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Common Wealth's Miriam Brett and Tahir Amin from the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 15 February 2021 By the middle of January, 49 wealthy...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Is outsourcing out of control? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by New Statesman’s Britain editor, Anoosh Chakelian and David Hall, founder of the PSIRU at the University of Greenwich By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 05 February 2021 Meagre food...

Blog The future of farming is agroecological The problem with our global food system – and how to fix it By Chris Williams 01 February 2021 In early January, the Oxford Real Farming Conference brought together over 5,000 people from all around the world to discuss how...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Exposing the truth about modern slavery Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Emily Kenway, author of new book The Truth About Modern Slavery By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 29 January 2021 From Sports Direct warehouses to nail bars, awareness-raising...

Blog Five ways to make sure everyone can afford to isolate safely The government’s failure to support people to isolate threatens our public health By Lydia Prieg 29 January 2021 After seeing the highest daily death rates for the pandemic yet over the past few weeks, news...