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New Political Economy

The New Political Economy Network explores ideas and encourages debate about how the left can reinvigorate Britain's economy, in association with the journal Soundings

1 July 2013

  • construction workers stadium

    A boost to wages is the route out of the UK's economic crisis

    Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed

    Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed: Without greater income equality in Britain, through a shift from profits to wages, the economy will continue to falter

28 June 2013

  • Germany's Chancellor Merkel smiles at the start of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels

    Why we should remain sceptical about the rise of the banking bail-in

    Stephanie Blankenburg
    Stephanie Blankenburg: Shifting the burden of bank losses to lower-ranking creditors will not protect ordinary taxpayers from having to pay up

7 June 2013

  • Prime Minister's Questions

    Labour's forgotten jobs guarantee

    Philip Pilkington
    Philip Pilkington: The noises Labour now makes are at odds with a promising proposal early this year to find work for the long-term unemployed

5 June 2013

  • James Caan, the social mobility tsar

    Policy tsars – do they ever work?

    Simon Caulkin
    Simon Caulkin: James Caan has joined the 260 tsars created since 1997. Too many have been window-dressing, appointed on a political whim

22 May 2013

  • A protester holds a placard that reads "

    Big banks are still gaming the state, but who's got the courage to say it?

    Richard Paton

    Richard Paton: Let's hope the parliamentary commission on banking standards takes them on in its June report – it's got the evidence to do so

21 April 2013

  • George Osborne

    Why George Osborne should raise corporation tax to 50%

    Gerald Holtham
    Gerald Holtham: Businesses need a carrot and stick to make them invest – let them write off that investment against the punishing tax

16 April 2013

  • Gold Reserves of Federal Bank

    This gold price fall is a bad omen

    Tom Lines
    Tom Lines: Speculation on the cause is rife but one thing is certain – gold's special place in finance means there will be repercussions

2 April 2013

  • Brics leaders in Durban

    The Brics are building a challenge to western economic supremacy

    Radhika Desai

    Radhika Desai: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, united by rejection of the neoliberal model, plan to create their own institutions

19 March 2013

  • Mariana Mazzucato

    Budget 2013: come on, chancellor, you can change Britain's future

    Mariana Mazzucato

    Mariana Mazzucato: Wednesday's budget measures could be directed to revolutionise the economy with growth that's smart, inclusive, and sustainable

1 March 2013

  • Frank Robinson holds a sign outside Stafford Civic Centre to protest the death of his son

    Mid Staffs shows everything that's rotten in the house of management

    Simon Caulkin

    Simon Caulkin: NHS management failures stem from the same flawed system that gave us Enron and Lehman Bros in the private sector

21 February 2013

  • Mervyn King

    More quantitative easing is not the answer to stagnation

    Michael Kitson
    Michael Kitson: Mervyn King's hope that a weaker pound will lead us to recovery is forlorn as long as export performance remains poor

11 February 2013

  • EU CHief of state sumit.

    Europe's austerity hawks are celebrating a triumph over peanuts

    Stephanie Blankenburg

    Stephanie Blankenburg: Cameron and Merkel's budget deal is an ideological victory that solves none of Europe's deep political rifts

11 January 2013

  • Mark Carney

    Has quantitative easing had its day?

    Radhika Desai
    Radhika Desai: QE's failure to power recovery is clear, but the US and UK remain wedded to the policy to stifle debate about fiscal policy

2 January 2013

  • Pile of Twenty Pound and Five Pound Notes. Image shot 2007. Exact date unknown.

    Let the poor spend big business's cash pile

    Stewart Lansley
    Stewart Lansley: Think of it as an emergency transfusion, transferring idle money to where it can help those in need – and revive the economy

24 December 2012

  • A goose stands in a field at Church Farm in Ardeley, southern England

    British industrial policy remains plagued by the antidote fallacy

    Karel Williams

    Karel Williams: Policy failures are attributed to incomplete revolution leading to an antidote response. Here is a better way to boost industry

29 November 2012

  • A customer sips her coffee in Starbucks' Mayfair Vigo Street branch in central London

    Innovation: let the good risk-takers get their reward

    Mariana Mazzucato and William Lazonick: The relationship between risk and reward must change if it is to support, not undermine, long-term economic growth in the west

12 November 2012

  • Financial trading

    Management theory was hijacked in the 80s. We're still suffering the fallout

    Simon Caulkin
    Simon Caulkin: Good governance went out of the window when the Chicago school's reductive view of human nature took hold

7 November 2012

  • Westmill Wind Farm Co-op

    Co-ops help bring economics back to the people

    Hilary Wainwright and Richard Goulding

    Hilary Wainwright and Richard Goulding: As disillusionment with capitalism sets in, the co-operative movement is offering alternatives to the profit-driven model

31 October 2012

  • Michael Heseltine

    What Lord Heseltine doesn't say about the regions

    Karel Williams
    Karel Williams: London stands in the way of Britain's ex-industrial regions and their stranded populations. Heseltine offers little new thinking

9 October 2012

  • George Osborne

    George Osborne's shares-for-rights scheme doesn't add up

    Simon Caulkin
    Simon Caulkin: This idea is absurd. Greater protection improves performance, and UK workers already have relatively poor protection
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