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Progressive Economics 2023

10th Jun 2023

Campus

Progressive Economics 2023

10 June, full-day event from 9am-6.30pm

University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD

The Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) and the University of Greenwich research Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability bring you Progressive Economics 2023 – a conference of debate and education at a vital moment in the UK to debate the policies to tackle the alarming economic challenges of austerity, inequalities, Brexit, Covid-19, cost-of-living crisis, global supply problems, the war in Ukraine, care crisis and environmental collapse. What are the solutions and how to persuade the policy makers to implement them? There will be panels on green caring just transition, inequalities, cost-of-living crisis, economics of the commons, Brexit, fiscal policy, monetary policy, industrial policy and macroeconomic policy coordination with MPs, academics, and researchers from think-tanks and civil society organisations.

Speakers include John McDonnell MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Patrick Allen (PEF), Ann Pettifor (Prime), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Banco Central de Chile), Carys Roberts (IPPR), Rebekah Diski (NEF), Molly Scott Cato (Green Party, Economy Spokesperson and University of Roehampton), Faiza Shaheen (PEF), Will Hutton (The Observer), Peter Holmes (Trade Policy Observatory), Geoff Tily (TUC), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Michael Jacobs (University of Sheffield), Guy Standing (SOAS), Susan Himmelweit (Open University), Özlem Onaran (University of Greenwich), Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich), Stewart Lansley (University of Bristol), James Meadway (PEF), Fran Witt (Recourse), Mehmet Ugur (University of Greenwich), Jo Michell (UWE Bristol), David Barmes (Positive Money), Gerhard Schneider (Loughborough University), Lorena Lombardozzi (Open University), Katie Kedward (UCL), Shreya Nanda (Social Market Foundation), Jan Toporowski (SOAS), Rob Calvert Jump (University of Greenwich), Janet Williamson (TUC), Ben Tippet (University of Greenwich), and Alex Guschanski (University of Greenwich), among others.

Please find the programme of the conference here. More information about our wonderful speakers can be found here.

The venue of this conference is 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD, rooms 11_0003 and 11_0004 (ground floor) and Stephen Lawrence Building room SL101 (building no. 6 on the map). A campus map can be found here.

The recordings of the highly successful Progressive Economics 2022 conference with 500 delegates are here.