New Economics Foundation

Publications The New Economics Zine Issue 2: Is our economy making us sick? 10 October 2020 Download the zine Welcome to the second issue of the New Economics Zine, launched on World Mental Health Day. In this issue, we’re digging into what the economy has to do with our mental health.  Mental health...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Building a caring economy Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF's Sarah Arnold, Marion Sharples from the Women’s Budget Group and City University's Jo Littler. 09 October 2020 “We want to build back greener as we recover from Covid-19” — that was the message this week at the Prime Minister’s Conservative Party...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Is competition killing us? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Michelle Meagher, author of new book, Competition is Killing Us and Grace Blakeley, staff writer at Tribune By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 06 October 2020 Our track-and-trace system will be ​“world-beating”. The...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Can unions transform the economy? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Unions Renewed authors Alice Martin and Annie Quick By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 25 September 2020 Amid the coronavirus crisis, the number of people becoming members of a union has skyrocketed. Unison...

Blog How workers can take on big finance and win A new book makes the case for a renewed role for unions in challenging financial capitalism. By Alice Martin, Annie Quick 25 September 2020 Unions Renewed: Building Power in an Age of Finance, by Alice Martin and Annie Quick The impact...

Blog Boris Johnson is right to be worried about the cost of childcare Nurseries are providing a critical public service, but with the financial challenges of a private business. By Lucie Stephens 24 September 2020 Stories emerged over the weekend that the Prime Minister is worried about the cost of...

Blog Furlough: where did the hours go? The economic fallout from Covid-19 is likely to significantly increase regional inequalities By Alex Chapman, Lukasz Krebel 23 September 2020 As we stare down the barrel of a second Covid-19 wave, the government’s plan to end the Job Retention...

Blog The dodgy economics behind expanding our airports Despite what airport executives say, expanding our airports won’t tackle unemployment or bring more money to the UK. By Alex Chapman 15 September 2020 Given the widely publicised collapse in international air travel, you’d be forgiven for assuming...

Blog Use Covid recovery to get to net zero: the Citizens Assembly’s verdict From upgrading our homes to a Frequent Flyer Levy, our economic recovery from Covid-19 must be green. By Chaitanya Kumar 11 September 2020 In the first of its kind in the UK, a National Citizens Assembly has deliberated and this...

Blog Light on the horizon: the story of the Eastbourne fishing quay How fishers in Eastbourne worked together to build their own community fishing quay By Chris Williams 24 August 2020 Good things come to those who wait, or so that saying goes. Like so many small-scale fleets across the UK, fishers in...