In the latest Prime Publication, The National Accounts, GDP and 'The Growthmen', Geoff Tily reviews GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History by Diane Coyle (2013). Tily asks, when and how did GDP growth ...

PRIME was established ten years ago because ‘mainstream’ economic theory proved of almost no relevance to the chronic failure of the global economy and gravest threat facing us all: climate breakdfown ...

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

The EREP network – Economists for Rational Economic Policies – has published its Review of the UK Economy in 2015, with a series of short articles focusing on different aspects. The Review argues ...

As part of this series celebrating PRIME's tenth anniversary, we are looking forward to the next ten years. This contribution by Laurie Macfarlane, looks at the future role of the state. "In the UK, ...

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

I have been criticised by among others, Professor Simon Wren-Lewis, for the earlier blog criticising the economics profession. To bolster my case, am sharing here ex-governor of the Bank of England, ...

PRIME has from its launch 10 years ago aimed to rethink economic theory to take on board the ecological crisis and its human impacts. In this article, Ian Gough argues that a more radical agenda is ...

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

Our new research report looks at a wide range of issues - workforce size, economically active/inactive, employees/self-employed, full/ part-time workers. It also examines data on developments in ...

We're celebrating PRIME's tenth anniversary by looking forward to the next ten years. In this essay, Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist at UNCTAD sets out the basic elements of a global green new ...

The Dutch finance minister Wopka Hoekstra is somewhat brazen. Like his German counterpart, he caused consternation across the Union by rejecting a ‘Coronabond’ – a scheme for raising finance for EU ...