Ann Pettifor - Political economist, author and public speaker

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

December 14, 2021 / 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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To stabilise the ecosystem, we must first transform the international financial system.

December 10, 2021 / Globalisation, International Financial System, Keynes, Market-based Finance, Uncategorized

I have a chapter in a new book, Economic Policies for Sustainability and Resilience, edited by Professors Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. (Details here: eBook ISBN 978-3-030-84288-8 Print ISBN 978-3-030-84287-1). As I argue in an abstract for my chapter: “the intent of financial globalisation, like the gold standard, is to

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Pettifor’s Case for A Green New Deal – the Ecologist

October 26, 2021 / Green New Deal, International Financial Architecture, Uncategorized

By Brendan Montagu, editor of The Ecologist, 26 October, 2021: Economist Ann Pettifor predicted the 2008 economic crash. And predicted a ‘shuddering shock’ just ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Find out what she sees coming next… The value of an economic theory is that it might allow us to predict what is going to

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My Commercial Venture: Part 2 – A BUG killer for Africa?

October 18, 2021 / Climate Change, Ecosystem, Environment, Green New Deal

With acknowledgements to A Jacobson and the IFC report: https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/2cd3d83d-4f00-4d42-9bdc-4afdc2f5dbc7/20190919-Full-Report-The-Dirty-Footprint-of-the-Broken-Grid.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=mR9UpXC

With acknowledgements for the above image to IFC’s Report: The Dirty Footprint of the Broken Grid. The most promising aspect of the start-up company I chair – A-Deus – is the radical, decentralised and transformative energy concept at its heart. Once operating, the company could help empower millions of Africans that consume very little

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How Do We Create the Financial Conditions for a Green New Deal?

October 14, 2021 / Capital Flows, Ecosystem, Environment, Green New Deal, International Financial System, Keynes

This is an interview with Rob Johnson of the George Soros-sponsored Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET): “Political economist, author, and public speaker Ann Pettifor talks about her latest book, The Case for a Green New Deal, which not only lays out the urgency for such a deal, but also proposes a roadmap for both

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My new commercial venture: radical, clean, decentralised energy for UK communities

September 27, 2021 / Climate Change, Ecosystem, Environment, Uncategorized

At a time when Britain and Europe are experiencing a dire energy crisis, and in what is a new direction for me, I have joined A-Deus, an innovative, community- based clean energy company as chair of the board of directors. I have done so for a number of reasons. It is clear that if the

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Reclaiming Central Banks

September 21, 2021 / 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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Industrial Policy’s Comeback?

September 15, 2021 / Climate Change, Growth, Public Spending

This is my comment on a major article on Industrial Policy in the Boston Review, published in September, 2021. The leading article was by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel and Josh Ryan-Collins. In their well-executed argument for a new approach to economic policy, Mazzucato, Kattel, and Ryan-Collins spell out how governments could develop an industrial policy to shape

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Build back better? Rebalancing the global economy

September 10, 2021 / Austerity, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Economic Orthodoxy, Ecosystem, Uncategorized

My book reviews of WHAT WE OWE EACH OTHER by Minouche Shafik, GO BIG by Ed Milliband and RESCUE by Ian Goldin, were published by the Times Literary Supplement on 10 September, 2021. In the preface to What We Owe Each Other, Minouche Shafik quotes the opening line of W. B. Yeats’s famous poem, “The

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Britain, Korea and humanity’s life support systems.

July 19, 2021 / Bretton Woods, Capital Flows, Climate Change, Ecosystem, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Deficit, Globalisation, Uncategorized

This was my contribution to a publication of the Korean Labor Institute, 19th July, 2021 Since 2014 the world has endured the seven hottest years in recorded history. The wildfires, heatwaves, droughts and intense flooding that currently afflict rich and poor countries alike, are, scientists explain, the consequence of this heating. Children, led by Greta

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