Taking the big picture, we can say for sure that those doing very well out of our generally stagnant economy are overwhelmingly in the business service sectors, whose average pay – which was already ...

May 2023. The UK economy struggles along, shedding another 0.1% of GDP. The 'size' of the economy, measured as GDP, is a fraction (0.7% to be precise) greater than in May 2019, 4 long years ago. It's ...

This article first appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly on 12 November 2022. Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of Deglobalisation This article is the first in a series of two articles on ...

Our new research report looks at a wide range of issues - workforce size, economically active/inactive, employees/self-employed, full/ part-time workers. It also examines data on developments in ...

This article first appeared in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly on 13 November, 2021. Fermi Paradox In a recent article, Yıldızoğlu (2021) reminded us of the Fermi Paradox, which can ...

Book Review, Mr Keynes’ Revolution: A Novel, E. J. Barnes, 2020, Greyfire publishing. In Mr Keynes’ Revolution, Emma Barnes makes Keynes the subject of a novel, and does so brilliantly. I cannot ...

In 2020, governments all over Europe and beyond enacted unprecedented fiscal stimulus to keep their economies afloat amidst the pandemic. By the end of the year, a country like France will have ...

Globally the economy has outgrown the carrying capacity of the biosphere, as a conservative, annual assessment of ecological overshoot makes clear. It is as if we are trying to shove size 10 economic ...

PRIME has from its launch 10 years ago aimed to rethink economic theory to take on board the ecological crisis and its human impacts. In this article, Ian Gough argues that a more radical agenda is ...

At this moment in history, with Britain on the brink of Brexit, we look forward to Europe's next ten years. László Andor, ex EU Commissioner for Social Affairs and now Secretary General of the ...

PRIME was established ten years ago because ‘mainstream’ economic theory proved of almost no relevance to the chronic failure of the global economy and gravest threat facing us all: climate breakdfown ...

As part of this series celebrating PRIME’s tenth anniversary, we are looking forward to the next ten years. This contribution by Laurie Macfarlane looks at the future role of the state. ——- John ...