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Political economist, author and public speaker

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Anglo-American Financial Crisis

Various interviews on de-globalisation in the European and British press

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bretton Woods, Capital Flows, Ecosystem, Globalisation, Green New Deal, International Financial System

At the invitation of the Evens Foundation in Antwerp, and on 29th November, 2021 I delivered a lecture at Brussels’s BOZAR centre…on the subject of globalisation, or more correctly the need for de-globalisation…Here are some links to the stories published afterwards… In the EU Observer, this article by Wester van Gaal on 2 December, 2021: […]

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Reclaiming Central Banks

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank of England, Central Banks, Climate Change, Federal Reserve, International Financial Architecture

  This article first appeared on the Project Syndicate website on 21st September, 2021 Fifty years ago, a US president closed the gold window, ended capital controls, and launched a new era of globalized finance. The “Nixon Shock” reshaped the international monetary system overnight, and then gradually changed the status of central bankers. Instead of acting as

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Here’s a three-step plan to take back control

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Central Banks, Globalisation, Green New Deal, International Financial Architecture, International Financial System, Public Finance

This essay appeared in The Correspondent  on 17th April, 2020. The health of our domestic economies and the planet is tied to market forces that are largely invisible and little understood. As Covid-19 shakes the foundations of the world economy, rather than hope to restore it, let’s work to replace it. I was born and

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Balance of Power: The Economic Consequences of the Peace at 100

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Book Reviews, Financial Crisis, Keynes

My review of John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace  Macmillan (2019) appeared in Nature – the International Journal of Science – on 23 September, 2019. “Ann Pettifor finds astonishing contemporary resonance in John Maynard Keynes’s critique of globalization and inequity.” In December 1919, John Maynard Keynes published a blistering attack on the

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2007-9: Central bank coordination saved the finance sector, but not the world.

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank of England, Banking Crisis, Economic Consequences of Mr Osbourne, Keynes, Uncategorized

12 November, 2018 This year is the 150th anniversary of the TUC, and the 70th anniversary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. As part of the celebration of these achievements, the TUC’s Economics and Social Affairs department organised an event “Lessons from the Great Financial Crisis” – on 12th November, 2018 –

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10 years after – and nothing has changed.

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Capital Flows, Central Banks, Credit Crunch, ECB, Economic Orthodoxy, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Globalisation, Interest Rates, International Financial System

The following is an interview with Yena Yoon – a financial journalist with Chosen Ilbo “the largest newspaper in South Korea” conducted on 12 February, 2018, but still relevant.

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The BBC’s Cassandras of the Crash

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Banking Crisis, Bernanke, Credit Crunch, Economic Orthodoxy, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Globalisation, International Financial System

  On Wednesday, 19th September and again on 22nd September, the BBC broadcast an interview in which I participated. It was called Cassandras of the Crash. The programme is available on the BBC’s Radio 4 website, with the following introduction. “Ten years ago, in autumn 2008, the world watched as the biggest financial meltdown in

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Is It Unreasonable to Blame Bankers/Rentiers for the Rise in Populism?

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Banking Crisis, British Banking, Globalisation

At the April Rethinking Economicsconference in Oslo  I pointed out that western politicians and economists are repeating policy errors of the 1930s. The pattern of a global financial crash, followed by austerity in Europe and the UK, led in those years to the rise of populism, authoritarianism and ultimately fascism. The scale of economic and political

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Interview with Wallace Chapman of New Zealand Radio

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Climate Change, Credit Crunch, Democracy, Ecosystem

At the invitation of New Zealand’s Institute of Directors, I recently visited Auckland. I was there to address the IoD’s annual gathering of 600 CEOs..and on the side did this interview with NZ’s equivalent of the BBC, for a Sunday Talk Show with popular host, Wallace Chapman. It was good to be given fully 20

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