New Economics Foundation

Politicians and economists have increasingly been talking about the risks of a future where robots make all of our jobs obsolete. But is that future already upon us? And in the meantime, are big...

Week ending 4 November 2017 Miatta Fahnbulleh: ‘People’s tolerance for an unfair economic model has hit a buffer’Our new Chief Executive, Miatta Fahnbulleh, was interviewed in the Guardian on how NEF’s moment has come to lead the fight against inequality. Read more “Nurseries need more funding and new ways of working”Lucie Stephens writes in Public Sector Focus on the government’s 30...

We recently launched our public land map, which helps to expose the government’s under-the-radar land sale. Today we want to talk about something more positive: the alternative to public land sales....

Tuesday 28 November 18:00-20:00Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, 108 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH The impact of the Article 50 negotiations on people’s lives and attitudes. The relationship between Brexit and democracy is fraught. For many, the vote to leave the European Union was a moment in which ‘the people’ were finally able to make their voice heard. But where are ‘the people’...

Friday 24 November 2017 09:00 – 13:00 1 Drummond Gate, London SW1V 2QQ All over the country, taxi drivers are coming together to develop co-operatives. This trend comes in the wake of serious concerns about the business model of taxi platforms like Uber and the quality of working conditions for their drivers. Taxi co-ops offer an alternative where the drivers themselves own, control and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...