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Ann Pettifor

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Ann Pettifor is director of Prime: Policy Research in Macroeconomics and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She is the author of The Case for the Green New Deal

September 2025

  • Keir Starmer

    The panel
    double quotation markLabour is in a mess. Is there anything Starmer can do to turn things around? Our panel responds – part one

    John Harris, Ann Pettifor and Simon Woolley
    Over a year into power, Keir Starmer’s government is floundering. But it still has a large parliamentary majority and time on its side — here’s what it could do, says our first group of panelists

September 2024

  • Tributes adorn a green, heart-shaped London Underground-style roundel that reads 'Grenfell'

    Politics Weekly UK
    The final Grenfell inquiry report and what it means for families – Politics Weekly UK

    The Grenfell Tower fire was the result of ‘decades of failure’ by central government, the public inquiry into the catastrophe has found. John Harris looks at the findings of the seven-year report with the Guardian’s social affairs leader writer, Susanna Rustin
    Podcast30:27

June 2021

  • Workers walk between solar panels over the water surface of Sirindhorn Dam in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books for a greener economy

    As we struggle with our devastating addiction to fossil fuels, these books think through some of the ways we can adopt a more sustainable way of life

July 2020

  • Salisbury Cathedral Peregrine 2016 - James Fisher

    Further reading
    Green shoots: the best books to inspire hope for the planet

    The economist and author Ann Pettifor suggests books that offer hope for the future and the Green New Deal

January 2020

  • FRANCE-SOCIAL-STRIKE-PENSION-DEMO<br>Protesters hold puppets shaped as crowns and reading BlackRock, a US global investment management corporation, as they demonstrate in Paris, on January 11, 2020, as part as a nationwide multi-sector strike against the French government’s pensions overhaul. (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)

    double quotation markBlackRock gets praise for coal divestment. What it really needs is regulation

    Ann Pettifor
    For the world’s biggest fund manager and its fellow shadow banks, self-policing can never be sufficient, says Ann Pettifor, director of Prime: Policy Research in Macroeconomics

September 2019

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    double quotation markThe beauty of a Green New Deal is that it would pay for itself

    Ann Pettifor
    Governments around the world don’t need to raise taxes in order to transform their economies and avert climate disaster, says economist Ann Pettifor

February 2019

  • Democratic Representative from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and US Democratic Senator from Massachusetts Ed Markey introduce their Green New Deal resolution<br>epa07350906 Democratic Representative from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L) delivers remarks on the ‘Green New Deal’ resolution with US Democratic Senator from Massachusetts Ed Markey (Unseen), during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 07 February 2019. The resolution emphasizes massive public investment in wind and solar production, zero-emission vehicles and high-speed rail, energy-efficient buildings, and smart power grids, as well as ‘working collaboratively’ with farmers and ranchers to move towards sustainable agriculture techniques. EPA/SHAWN THEW

    double quotation markThe Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change

    Ann Pettifor
    The proposal is incredibly ambitious, both on climate change and with its reimagining of society

September 2018

  • The New York Mercantile Exchange, 15 September 2008.

    The panel
    double quotation markTen years after the crash: have the lessons of Lehman been learned?

    Yanis Varoufakis, Ann Pettifor , Mark Littlewood, David Blanchflower, Olli Rehn, Nicky Morgan, and Micah White
    Our panel of writers considers what has changed – and what still needs to

March 2018

  • George Osborne arrives at the London Evening Standard offices in Kensington, London.

    double quotation markA triumph for George Osborne’s austerity plan? Not when our social fabric is in tatters

    Ann Pettifor
    The ex-chancellor rejoices as his target is finally hit, but austerity has taken a terrible toll

January 2018

  • Terraced houses in Oldham.

    double quotation markWhy building more homes will not solve Britain’s housing crisis

    Ann Pettifor
    The problem of inflated prices lies not in shortage of supply but in property speculation. That’s what we need to clamp down on, says Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics

December 2017

  • Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Drechsler

    double quotation markWhy business could prosper under a Corbyn government

    Ann Pettifor
    Labour’s economic plans will alleviate the long-term damage being inflicted by austerity policies

March 2017

  • British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond (L) and British Prime Minister Theresa May tour engineering and scientific technology company Renishaw's innovation and engineering plant in Wooton, south-west England, on November 24, 2016. Official forecasts that Brexit will blow a ã59-billion hole in the British government's budget drew fire from eurosceptics on Thursday, and even finance minister Philip Hammond said there was a "high degree of uncertainty" about the numbers. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / TOBY MELVILLETOBY MELVILLE/AFP/Getty Images

    double quotation markPhilip Hammond ought to dispel the economic myths that hold women back

    Ann Pettifor
    The budget falls on International Women’s Day this year. Sadly it is unlikely to be marked by economic orthodoxy stacked against women being overturned

February 2017

  • Trump

    Politics Weekly UK
    Should economists share the blame for populism? – Politics Weekly podcast

    Heather Stewart is joined by Andrew Lilico, Ann Pettifor, Jonathan Portes, Rachel Reeves and Vince Cable for an extended discussion at a Guardian Live event in London
    Podcast75:18

January 2017

  • Theresa May, left, and Angela Merkel

    double quotation markMay’s promise on workers’ rights is hollow if she doesn’t get a deal

    Ann Pettifor
    If Britain doesn’t get access to the single market after Brexit, its economic model will favour investors and undermine employment conditions

May 2014

  • 'Britons are re-leveraging. Any uplift in the base rate will send repayment costs soaring.'

    double quotation markAn interest rate rise would be bad news for most Britons

    Ann Pettifor
    Ann Pettifor: Britain is the world's most indebted nation. We cannot be relaxed about how a rate rise would affect households and consumers

December 2013

  • Autumn Statement On The Economy

    The panel
    double quotation markAutumn statement 2013: our writers' verdict

    Caroline Lucas, Patrick Diamond, Kwasi Kwarteng, Alvin Carpio, Ann Pettifor, John Cridland and Rhys Moore

    Caroline Lucas, Patrick Diamond, Kwasi Kwarteng, Alvin Carpio, Ann Pettifor, John Cridland and Rhys Moore: Our panellists give their reaction to George Osborne's autumn statement on the economy

August 2013

  • Jobseekers queue outside a Jobcentre Plus branch

    double quotation markNo, this is not the road to recovery. It's the road to Wongaland

    Ann Pettifor
    Ann Pettifor: The notion that the Bank of England base rate is dominant and we should all go shopping has already been punctured

May 2013

  • France unemployment

    double quotation markThe reason France has gone into double-dip recession

    Ann Pettifor
    Ann Pettifor: This isn't a uniquely French problem – EU nations of various political hues are in trouble because of a fixation on austerity

December 2012

  • Autumn statement

    The panel
    Autumn statement 2012: expert verdict

    Richard Murphy, Dominic Raab, Ann Pettifor, Gavin Kelly, Prateek Buch and Mark Serwotka: Our experts give their reaction to George Osborne's autumn statement

November 2012

  • Mark Carney, the next governor of the Bank of England

    double quotation markMark Carney's 'shock' appointment means more of the same

    Ann Pettifor
    Ann Pettifor: Osborne's choice for governor of the Bank of England will do nothing to prevent the next collapse of the financial system
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