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On Friday, 13th April, 2018 I addressed the Rethinking Economics Conference…This is the You Tube link to the event… [embedded content] Related Posts

This time with a link to the You Tube version of the RoundTable. Money for nothing – should everyone get a universal basic income? Would it, as some believe, encourage prosperity? Or have the opposite effect? Ann Pettifor in a TV discussion with David Foster of TRT World, Matt Kerr of the Scottish Labour Party, Sam Demetrium of Adam Smith Institute and Robb Lugg, a Trades Unionist – on 7th February, 2018. Related Posts

This time with a link to the You Tube version of the RoundTable. Money for nothing – should everyone get a universal basic income? Would it, as some believe, encourage prosperity? Or have the opposite effect? Ann Pettifor in a TV discussion with David Foster of TRT World, Matt Kerr of the Scottish Labour Party, Sam Demetrium of Adam Smith Institute and Robb Lugg, a Trades Unionist – on 7th February, 2018. Related Posts

Ann Pettifor appeared on TRT’s RoundTable – presented by David Foster – to discuss the merits and demerits of a Universal Basic Income. Ann found herself in opposition to the representative from the Adam Smith Institute (that promote UBI) but also to a representative of Glasgow City Council, where consultation regarding the introduction of UBI is being undertaken.  The debate was lively, and can be watched at 3.30 pm on 7th February,  on TRT RoundTable here. Later it will be posted on...

Ann Pettifor appeared on TRT’s RoundTable – presented by David Foster – to discuss the merits and demerits of a Universal Basic Income. Ann found herself in opposition to the representative from the Adam Smith Institute (that promote UBI) but also to a representative of Glasgow City Council, where consultation regarding the introduction of UBI is being undertaken.  The debate was lively, and can be watched at 3.30 pm on 7th February,  on TRT RoundTable here. Later it will be posted on You...

Together with Gillian Tett of the Financial Times, Ann Pettifor appeared at the top of the Newsnight show on Tuesday, 6th February. After the stock market gyrations of the last few days, the discussion majored on whether viewers had once again to prepare for the worst. Ann argued that the economic model adopted after the crisis – of massive liquidity injections by central banks (QE or monetary easing) coupled with fiscal contraction (‘austerity’) had failed the public. A new model, of...

Together with Gillian Tett of the Financial Times, Ann Pettifor appeared at the top of the Newsnight show on Tuesday, 6th February. After the stock market gyrations of the last few days, the discussion majored on whether viewers had once again to prepare for the worst. Ann argued that the economic model adopted after the crisis – of massive liquidity injections by central banks (QE or monetary easing) coupled with fiscal contraction (‘austerity’) had failed the public. A new model, of...

Today, 6th February, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, 1918, which gave SOME women the right to vote. (For more on this follow the link to the Fawcett Society’s website.) To honour that anniversary, the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.) was run and presented by women, with an all-women cast of interviewees. I was honoured to be invited to discuss the position of women in high level posts, and in the economics profession, and was joined...

Today, 6th February, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, 1918, which gave SOME women the right to vote. (For more on this follow the link to the Fawcett Society’s website.) To honour that anniversary, the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.) was run and presented by women, with an all-women cast of interviewees. I was honoured to be invited to discuss the position of women in high level posts, and in the economics profession, and was...

Ann Pettifor joined a #NovaraFM podcast, with James Butler and Grace Blakeley of IPPR,  to discuss the decline and fall of Carillion, outsourcing, financialisation – and how to transform public investment in Britain. To listen, follow this link. Related Posts