Ann Pettifor

Political economist, author and public speaker

Bretton Woods

What Europe wants from Obama

Speigel Online: 5th November 2008 My hope is that the next US president will help build a new, more just, stable and sustainable global financial architecture, vital for balance and stability in the world economy, but also for the eco-system… Read More (scroll halfway down)

The new Bretton Woods: economies of scale.

21st October, 2008 A new Bretton Woods: To save economies and the planet, we must tame markets,upsize the state, and downsize the global single market.  This piece is derived loosely from the book I edited at the new economics foundation “Real World Economic Outlook” (Palgrave, 2006). The proposal for an International Clearing Agency draws on …

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