Monday 6 November 201718:00 – 20:00The Glass Room, 69-71 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H Event hosted by Tactical Tech and Mozilla. The digital economy is transforming people’s experience of work, and poses questions of power, accountability and control. How is work changing in the digital economy? How should we be thinking about ownership and control, especially with the rise of...
Read More »Ten years on: rethinking money after the financial crisis
Wednesday 29 November 201718:00 – 20:30 GMTCoin Street Neighbourhood Centre, 108 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH A major critique of post-financial crisis regulation is that it has failed to address deep-seated problems with the processes of money, credit creation and allocation in advanced economies. This event will propose alternatives to the current status quo, drawing on examples...
Read More »Weekly Economics Podcast: Can we do better than Uber?
Last month, Transport for London announced it was withdrawing ride-hailing firm Uber’s license to operate in the capital. Despite complaints over passenger safety and poor treatment of drivers, many...
Read More »Green central banking in emerging market and developing economies
Central banks have played an increasingly interventionist role in advanced economies over the last decade. They have created new money on a huge scale with quantitative easing programmes, forced banks...
Read More »4 things the Government must do if it really wants to boost affordable housing
Theresa May’s conference speech was trailed as the start of a new council house building ‘revolution’, but fell far short of offering the commitment or investment that this would require. Over the...
Read More »Weekly Economics Podcast: Is there a political divide between cities and towns?
A characteristic feature of British society in 2017 is division. Leavers are pitched against Remainers, young against old, graduates against non-graduates. But perhaps the starkest way of understanding...
Read More »NEF in the news, October 2017
Week beginning 15 October 2017 Our report on the growing divide between cities and towns was covered in the Observer, Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Politics Home and a range of regional newspapers. Report co-author Will Brett also set out our ‘manifesto for towns’ in the Huffington Post. NEF’s Griffin Carpenter’s letter to the Times outlined the case for setting sustainable fishing...
Read More »Put drivers in control
Last weekend, Jeremy Corbyn raised an intriguing possibility. “Imagine an Uber,” he said, “run co-operatively by their drivers, collectively controlling their futures, agreeing their own pay and...
Read More »Land map reveals where developers have scrapped affordable homes
Last week we launched our public land map, pinpointing where land is for sale and identifying developments on sites already sold. Today we are going to use our map to explore how developers use the...
Read More »Five charts that reveal the divide between England’s cities and towns
Towns and cities have always been divided. They have always been home to different types of people and different patterns of economic activity. But new research by Professor Will Jennings for the New...
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