Ann Pettifor’s The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Pettifor 2006) was the first book to warn of the approaching 2007 Global Financial Crisis. More than decade after that crisis, its cause—excessive ...

Dr. Geoff Tily, Professor Victoria Chick and Ann Pettifor have updated their July 2010 publication ‘The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne’ with a new preface – Mr Osborne and the economists’ advice.

This article is from the latest e-publication “Remain for Change: Building European solidarity for a democratic economic alternative” from EREP, the network of Economists for Rational Economic ...

The current false “truth” endlessly repeated by those who would benefit from its propagation, and by those who should know better, is that Labour governments are fiscally profligate and/or incompetent ...

Our new research report, published today, looks at the state of the UK’s labour market, based on the most recent data from the Office for National Statistics. It compares these recent data with those ...

“Solidarity Mural,” Terence Faircloth. With acknowledgements to Non-Profit Quarterly. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/scaling-economic-solidarity-the-pandemic ...

In Britain as in the US, governments are tackling the corona virus by undertaking actions that force the closure or collapse of companies large and small. To compensate, they are stepping in with ...

After being attacked by monetarists and others for many decades, MMT and the idea that running government budget deficits is stabilizing instead of destabilizing is suddenly gaining applause from the ...

In a recent article, Yıldızoğlu (2021) reminded us of the Fermi Paradox, which can be summarised as: Although the probability of the existence of other forms of life in the universe is sufficiently ...

Over the last week, we have posted the autumn 1940 series of Karl Polanyi’s lectures as individual posts. Since the lectures were always intended to be taken together, we have also compiled them as a ...

The subject matter of these lectures is a vast and unique event: the passing of 19th century civilization in the short period that elapsed between the first and the second wars of the 20th century. At ...

Given the likelihood of a close result to today’s General Election in Greece, and the near-certainty that no party will have an overall majority in the new Parliament, we hope the following guide will ...