Senior Research Fellow Laybourn-Langton Laurie Laurie leads a major project developing policy responses to environmental collapse. His work also covers political economy and how shifts occur in …
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Digital technology is delivering a huge range of benefits to businesses, citizens and wider society. Platforms – online applications that intermediate between the provider of a service and its users …
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Commission on Economic Justice
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Established in autumn 2016 in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the aim of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice was to examine the challenges facing the UK economy and to …
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Commission on Economic Justice
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The product of a two-year enquiry into the UK economy, the final report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice presents a 10-part plan for economic reform to achieve prosperity and justice …
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Since the second world war and end of empire, British foreign policy has been moored to two powerful partners. Our ‘special relationship’ with the US has dominated our defence policy, through the …
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Laurie Laybourn-Langton : Margaret Beckett, you are a former Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for the Department for the Environment, Farming & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), among other roles …
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Environment
Ours is the age of global environmental collapse. Resources are being consumed at around 1.5 times the Earth’s ability to regenerate them. We are living through the sixth mass extinction and nearly …
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Environment
The British economy is at a critical juncture. Its future success depends on overcoming two major, interrelated problems – long-term structural weaknesses in investment, productivity and trade, and …
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The Chancellor said today that the future is bright and that he is building a Britain fit for the future. But that’s not what it looks like to many people, including economists. The uncertainties of …
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Commission on Economic Justice
The government’s commitment to ban the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans after 2040 is a welcome move. This is because it provides an explicit signal to drivers and manufacture…
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