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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK’s new finance bill could cause another financial meltdownIn the midst of a cost of living crisis, finance should work for everyday citizens, not the City of London and huge...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionFinance must serve society during the COVID-19 crisis – not disrupt itThe viral excesses of finance are to blame for the current market volatility. Tough measures should be taken to make...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIn the face of a crumbling Europe, a fiscal union can maintain unityAt a time of deep-seated division within Europe, pooling decision-making power on national budgets could help keep...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy this election is suffering from amnesia about austerityThe Tory narrative about its economic record defies reality.
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Published in: TransformationTransforming finance can help to tackle the biggest problems of societyThe current financial system is part of the problem, not part of the solution. So what’s to be done?
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Published in: Home"It's going to blow up one day"Marc Bauder's Master of the Universe runs like a sociological narrative of high finance as experienced by one man,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJust Money, introductionIn this exclusive extract from Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance Ann Pettifor...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe IMF – our sleeping beauty?Finance has cast a spell on the framework for international economic co-operation established after the Second World...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReuniting the monetary union: a proposal to counter the eurozone’s imbalances
Persistent trade imbalances are threatening to derail the European economy. Luca Fantacci calls for a European...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFinancial repression - myth, metaphor and reality“Financial repression” always casts state regulators as authoritarian villains and allows apologists for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUnderstanding and confronting financialisationThe growth of finance over the last forty years has changed capitalism profoundly. It is time for its critics to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShadow banking, or why black holes are important in the global financial system
The shadow banking sector is now integral to the global financial system. Its architects are constantly seeking to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Keen-Krugman debateThe debate between these two economists on the role of banking and specifically the creation of credit is of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhose money is it?Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Money is currently produced by a ‘public-private partnership’...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe can end the despotism of finance, at a priceTo mark the publication of Ann Pettifor's e-book, Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrankenstein's bankers - the tale every taxpayer should knowIt is now 5 years since the banking crash but its effects are still with us. What exactly happened, what has the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe ills of financial dominanceThe power of the financial sector in Britain has worked a transformation on the country’s ‘common sense’. A...
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Published in: openEconomyEconomic and social good sense requires the UK to target a lower exchange rate
The exchange rate is the most important single price in the economy: it determines the price of goods for export and...
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Published in: openEconomyThe financial sector needs a civil society watchdog
Non-profits have suffered in the financial crisis no less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors....
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Published in: openEconomyIn search of honest money
Making money work for society will require splitting out its three roles
