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Ann Pettifor

Ann writes for Left Foot Forward on banking and economic policy. She is the director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) and a fellow of the new economics foundation (nef).

How the sexist ‘Nobel Prize’ in economics has warped the world

Ann Pettifor
25 September, 2019

It’s time for new thinking from this so-called Nobel prize.

All the signs are there for another credit crunch

Ann Pettifor
6 March, 2012

the threads of forbearance and liquidity holding up the balance sheets of the private banking system are growing perilously thin, writes Ann Pettifor.

“We are spiralling into a prolonged and ghastly depression”: The economy in 2012

Ann Pettifor
6 January, 2012

Ann Pettifor looks to the economy in 2012, and is not hopeful about what she sees.

EU summitry is futile; this is a global financial crisis, not a eurozone crisis

Ann Pettifor
9 December, 2011

Ann Pettifor explains how the current European Union summit is futile – we are in a global financial crisis, not just a crisis of the eurozone.

UK not performing too well in the GDP growth championship

Ann Pettifor
17 November, 2011

Explaining Britain’s abysmally low growth, Ann Pettifor pushes a metaphor to its logical conclusion.

Osborne: Speaking truth to wealth and power? Really?

Ann Pettifor
5 October, 2011

George Osborne vowed “to speak truth to power and wealth” at the Tory party conference this week – but dare he speak economic truth to the rest of us?

The euro lurches towards the abyss – but does the Left have a Plan B?

Ann Pettifor
14 September, 2011

With the eurozone engulfed in a semi-permanent state of crisis, Ann Pettifor outlines five steps the global Left can take towards a Plan B.

Political leaders – Stand up to the bankers, you have only your chains to lose

Ann Pettifor
8 August, 2011

Instead of disciplining financiers, politicians have disciplined taxpayers, and used ‘austerity’ to force the broader economy to bow to the finance sector.

The High Street spiral of self-harm

Ann Pettifor
28 June, 2011

Ann Pettifor reports on the latest grim news from the high street today, and outlines possible solutions to the downturn.

Balls walks straight into Cameron’s trap

Ann Pettifor
17 June, 2011

Leading economist Ann Pettifor, co-founder of the think tank PRIME, on how shadow chancellor Ed Balls walked straight into the Tory trap in his LSE speech yesterday.

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