New Economic Policy: vision required
Article
Bluster and over-confidence cannot mask the UK economy’s longstanding weaknesses. Productivity growth is sluggish, inequalities stark, and living standards stagnant. This issue of IPPR Progressive Review takes the pulse of the economy and examines the challenges ahead, from algorithms and automation, to the future of work and inequality. As we confront a decade of disruption, we set out the latest in progressive thinking on how to build an economy that works for everyone.
Contents
- Editorial/Mathew Lawrence, Carys Roberts and Tom Kibasi
- How employers rule our lives/ Mathew Lawrence interviews Elizabeth Anderson
- Rewriting the rules of the British economy / Tom Kibasi
- Weapons of maths destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy /Leo Hollis interviews Cathy O’Neil
- Where next for progressive politics? Reframing the fight against inequality / Miatta Fahnbulleh
- Answering the Mansfield question: Labour’s proletariat problem / Craig Berry
- Reversing the inequality spiral: Citizens’ wealth funds / Stewart Lansley
- Making work work: The Taylor Review, modern employment, and how to improve it/ Kate Bell
- Capital lessons: Labour, inequality and how to respond / Özlem Onaran and Alexander Guschanski
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