Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor was one of few to predict the Great Financial Crisis in The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave 2006). In 2008 she jointly co-authored the original The Green New Deal (New Economics Foundation). In 2017 she published The Production of Money (Verso) on the nature of money, debt and banking. In 2019 her book The Case for The Green New Deal (Verso) was published.

She is director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) – a network of mainly Keynesian economists. In 2018 Germany’s Heinrich Boll Foundation awarded Pettifor the Hannah Ahrendt Prize. She is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and a trustee of the PREP Foundation for pluralist economics.

Debtonation: how globalisation dies

A single day, 9 August 2007, will go down in history as "debtonation day" - the beginning of the end of the deregulation and privatisation of finance that

By Ann Pettifor

/ 15 Aug 2007

Gleneagles, 7/7 and Africa

Although aware that it is not politically correct to do so, I have always thought of peaceful campaigning in military terms. In developing a successful strategy for defending the interests

By Ann Pettifor

/ 3 Jul 2006

Ethiopia: the price of indifference

In 1984, the rock musician Bob Geldof launched Band Aid the worldwide music benefit to raise money to feed starving people in Ethiopia with the memorable words: Doing nothing for

By Ann Pettifor

/ 19 Feb 2004

The coming first world debt crisis

Jubilee Research at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the team that spearheaded global awareness of a third world debt crisis released provocative new research in September 2003 which argues that

By Ann Pettifor

/ 31 Aug 2003