Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor

Political economist, author and public speaker

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On Tectonic Plates, the Economic System and the Economics Profession

August 3, 2018 / Ecosystem, Environment

It is my view that the greatest weakness of economics is the habit of drawing, or encouraging politicians to draw, macroeconomic conclusions from microeconomic reasoning (“the government budget, like a household budget, must balance”). This weakness is endemic within the profession. It is caused by the deliberate neglect of macroeconomics, including shameful neglect of Keynes’s …

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My tour of Australia – with the SEARCH Foundation

September 1, 2011 / Bank Bail-outs, Banking Crisis, Climate Change, Consumer Debt, Credit Crunch, Debt, Ecosystem, Environment, Financial Crisis, Green New Deal, International Financial System

Read about my speaking tour of Australia below – from the SEARCH Foundation: The SEARCH Foundation is currently touring eminent British economist and author Ann Pettifor around Australia and she is visiting our shores with a warning; the GFC inducing credit crunch is not over and Australia’s banking sector is vulnerable. Ms Pettifor is visiting …

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Financing the Green Transition – why we can afford it

September 20, 2011 / Bank Bail-outs, Central Banks, Climate Change, Credit, Credit Creation, Ecosystem, Environment, Financial Crisis, Government Borrowing, Green New Deal

Last month I gave a ‘Green Talk‘ in Bristol, organised by Climate Works. It was wonderful to be, first of all at such a professionally and well organised event (congrats to Mark Letcher and his team). It was also fantastic to be amongst such an interesting array of speakers including John Gapper ‘the secret gardener’ …

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Is carbon telling us something…..?

July 4, 2011 / Ecosystem, Environment, Uncategorized

More from the World Forum on Enteprise and the Envirionment. Professor Kathy Willis says (and I paraphrase crudely) that increased carbon emissions may not necessarily lead to desertification as widely predicted, but may instead lead to more ‘woody cover’ i.e. forests in e.g. the world’s tropical areas… Her evidence is quite convincing, drawing on previous …

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Birds are telling us something….

July 4, 2011 / Ecosystem, Environment, Uncategorized

Listening to Dr Simon Stuartof  IUCN – Species Survival Commission… has great slides, which hopefully will be on the website. Tracking birds as biodiversity indicator, measuring extinction..Notes significant and largely irreversible extinction trends..Amphibians, rapid decline..reef-forming corals, the most threatened… Sturgeons, Cycads, Sharks and rays….mangroves… State of biodiversity going down, pressure on biodiversity going up, our …

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Profiting from disaster: shareholders gain $1 billion

May 25, 2010 / Climate Change, Environment

Five days after appearing before Congress to testify about its responsibility in one of the worst oil spills in US history, the Swiss company that owned and operated the oil rig that sunk into the Gulf of Mexico announced that it would shell out $1 billion in dividends to shareholders, ‘Raw Story’ reports. ……..To put …

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Green New Deal – ‘The Cuts won’t work’ report is published.

July 4, 2011 / Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Debt-deflation, Environment, Finance Ministers, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Deficit, Government Borrowing, Green New Deal, Public Spending, Treasury, Uncategorized

7th December, 2009 This is the press release from the new economics foundation: “Two days ahead of the pre-budget report, and as the UN climate change talks open in Copenhagen – the second report from the authors of the original Green New Deal argues that the British Chancellor is likely to miss a historic opportunity …

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