Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism
Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. These were claimed to provide more efficient services so we …
The Foundational Economy Read More
For around half a century ecological economists such as Herman Daly have been seeking to win over the economics profession to the recognition that the economy is a subsystem of …
Economic Growth: Our modern day religion? Read More
The turn to economic liberalisation from the 1970s on used ideas from the academy to address the problems of over-regulation and economic policy making by deal doing. But once underway, …
What Economic Reform should have looked liked Read More
There has been substantial interest in the potential of land value tax over the last few years. It is seen as a way to address the growing inequality in terms …
Land Value Tax in Practice Read More
Creating a human society which is sustainable must rate as the biggest innovation challenge humanity has ever faced. We often think of this challenge as one of technological innovation, but …
Innovation, Sustainability and Trust Read More
The following is based on the actual testimony of real people who were affected by the Crash in different ways. It was performed as an improvised piece by Annee Blott …
10 Years after: Testimony from the Crash Read More
A special public panel discussion with John Kay, Ann Pettifor, Angus Armstrong and Josh Ryan-Collins, chaired by Alan Penn, Dean of the Bartlett, UCL. Part of our 10 years after …
Economics: No More Experts Anymore? Read More
‘Nudge economics’ has created a lot of interest and had a lot of influence most recently with a Nobel prize for Richard Thaler. Prof Robert Sugden, an eminent behavioural economist …
Challenging “Nudge Economics”: Reframing the market as a community of advantage Read More
Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. Little seems to …
Shut Down the Business School Read More
There has been much recent debate also in the UK around the state of the economics profession. Prospect magazine published a piece by Howard Reed proposing that we need to …
Applied Pluralism: The Case of Finance Read More