In this PRIME Position Paper, Ann Pettifor and Jeremy Smith record why – on economic as well as environmental grounds – they remain strongly against the Heathrow extension, and against building any ...

In this review, Pettifor and Tily argue that Piketty’s determinism (which suggests that inequality will continue to rise indefinitely and that interest and growth are on a preordained trajectory) ...

This analysis was co-authored by Geoff Tily and Ann Pettifor and published by the New Economics Foundation under the title, “The cuts won’t work: Why spending on a Green New Deal will reduce the ...

Reinforcing the case made in the Prime publication ‘The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne’ in 2010, this study examines the impact of government stance on public debt for eleven OECD countries from ...

An appeal to the Bank of England: The ‘rate of interest’ has not been low. Financial liberalisation led to a steep increase the complex of interest rates for all kinds of borrowing, long and short, ...

In this latest PRIME publication, Geoff Tily argues that parallels between events in Greece today and Germany in the 1920s go much further than commonly understood, and the policy implications are ...

Where the EU investment agenda comes from and how to boost it? Raising the banner of investment has been the most important development of 2014 for European policy. Clearly, Europe needs a better ...

This paper was first published in July 2010, and revised in February 2011. This new edition (March 2016) includes a preface by the authors to the 2011 paper in which they look at how their analysis ...

In this paper, Tily and Pettifor analyse two articles by Bank of England authors on Money in the Modern Economy and discuss the implications for economic theory and practical policies; and for the ...

Chronis and Droucopoulos contend that it would take an inordinate dose of audacity from someone to maintain that the adjustment programmes imposed on Greece and executed from 2010 onwards are not ...

Almost all necessities are high carbon, while most ‘luxuries’ emit lower than average GHGs. What are the policy implications? It will not be possible for the rich world to combat climate change, ...

Weeks critiques the government’s “deficit disorder” approach to economic recovery and argues that prioritising deficit reduction is unfounded. A policy reversal based on fiscal stimulus, public ...