Today (Thursday), the Office for National Statistics published its monthly set of employment stats. While its Labour Force Survey has been under the cosh for some time for unreliability, the ONS’s ...

Ann Pettifor’s speech to a meeting of the Malaysian Securities and Exchange Commission & the Institute of Islamic Studies, Ditchley Park, Oxford, March, 2015. Pettifor discusses usury, credit, ...

Reading GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History by Diane Coyle (2013) led to the question – when and how did GDP growth become the central focus of policymaking? Younger readers may be more surprised by ...

The euro not only replicated key elements of the gold standard – but went much further: European currencies were simply abolished. States lost control over both their currency and their central bank.

In this review, Pettifor and Tily argue that Piketty’s determinism (which suggests that inequality will continue to rise indefinitely and that interest and growth are on a preordained trajectory) ...

In this paper, Tily and Pettifor analyse two articles by Bank of England authors on Money in the Modern Economy and discuss the implications for economic theory and practical policies; and for the ...

Weeks critiques the government’s “deficit disorder” approach to economic recovery and argues that prioritising deficit reduction is unfounded. A policy reversal based on fiscal stimulus, public ...

This analysis was co-authored by Geoff Tily and Ann Pettifor and published by the New Economics Foundation under the title, “The cuts won’t work: Why spending on a Green New Deal will reduce the ...

In this latest PRIME publication, Geoff Tily argues that parallels between events in Greece today and Germany in the 1920s go much further than commonly understood, and the policy implications are ...

Where the EU investment agenda comes from and how to boost it? Raising the banner of investment has been the most important development of 2014 for European policy. Clearly, Europe needs a better ...

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 ...

Keynes’s agenda for monetary reform evolved from an interplay between practical instinct in the face of real world events and the development a theoretical analysis of increasing sophistication and ...