To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy – we have to change everything.
In this discussion, Ann Pettifor – author of The Case for the Green New Deal – argues that economic change is wholly possible, based on the understanding that finance, the economy and the ecosystem are all tightly bound together.
Join us to explore her manifesto for total decarbonisation and an economy based on fairness and social justice.
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is the Director of Prime (Policy Research in Macroeconomics), an Honorary Research Fellow at City University, and a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She has an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University. She is known for her leadership of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which resulted in massive debt cancellation for more than thirty countries. She has served on the board of the UN Development Report and in 2015 was invited onto the economic advisory board of the British Labour Party by Jeremy Corbyn. She is the author of The Case for the Green New Deal, The Production of Money, The Real World Economic Outlook and The Coming First World Debt Crisis and co-author of The Green New Deal and The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne.