Taking the big picture, we can say for sure that those doing very well out of our generally stagnant economy are overwhelmingly in the business service sectors, whose average pay – which was already ...

May 2023. The UK economy struggles along, shedding another 0.1% of GDP. The 'size' of the economy, measured as GDP, is a fraction (0.7% to be precise) greater than in May 2019, 4 long years ago. It's ...

This article is the first in a series of two articles on monetary policy debates in the age in which deglobalisation is a buzzword. The ongoing monetary policy debates of the age will be discussed by ...

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 ...

Kaye Wiggins in the Financial Times explains that private equity groups, including Blackrock, deliberately inflate the value of their own assets – by buying and then selling said assets to themselves.

This article first appeared in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly on 13 November, 2021. Fermi Paradox In a recent article, Yıldızoğlu (2021) reminded us of the Fermi Paradox, which can ...

By serving private capital markets rather than citizens and taxpayers, central banks constitute a major hurdle to meaningful climate action. A half-century after US President Richard Nixon and his ...

Book Review, Mr Keynes’ Revolution: A Novel, E. J. Barnes, 2020, Greyfire publishing. In Mr Keynes’ Revolution, Emma Barnes makes Keynes the subject of a novel, and does so brilliantly. I cannot ...

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 ...

At this moment in history, with Britain on the brink of Brexit, we look forward to Europe's next ten years. László Andor, ex EU Commissioner for Social Affairs and now Secretary General of the ...

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 ...

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 ...