Publications
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- The Financial Times, The General Election & Distress signals
- Investment, Brexit & A Progressive Alternative
- Making The Case For Public Investment
- CLASS Panel Reacts To Boris Johnson As Prime Minister
- No More Corporation Tax Cuts
- Let’s Talk About The Economy
- CLASS Panel Reacts to the 2018 Budget
- The Problem With GCSEs
- Universal Credit Failure Leaves Thousands Hungry
- Labour Market Realities: Growing Precarity for Housing Workers
- Bad Economics is Holding Britain Back
- No Rate Rise Without a Pay Rise
- Autumn Statement 2016: Reactions from Our Panel
- How serious is the new Prime Minister and her government about making the country work for everyone
- Dr Faiza Shaheen: Youth week roundup
- Day 5: Economic growth and youth prospects by region
- Day 3: Student debt
- Day1: Brexit: Implications for young people
- 4 Reasons Grammar Schools are a Bad Idea
- Today’s package of measures from Bank of England fails on inequality
- Lloyds cuts 3,000 jobs: where’s the accountability?
- 4 reasons why negotiating new trade deals won’t be easy after Brexit
- Theresa May’s brand of inequality
- Brexit: What next?
- Promoting economic democracy in the twenty-first century
- The increase to the minimum wage should be welcomed, but the fight against inequality is being lost
- Budget 2016: The reaction from our panel
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- Now a lost eleven years on pay, unprecedented for at least 150 years
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- #COP21: what the climate talks could mean for UK workers
- Spending review 2015: Our Panel’s Reaction
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- Economy growing at around half the pace of last year
- How can we measure national success? Five headline indicators to replace GDP
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- Five ways to deliver a good budget
- Budget 2015: Our panel’s reaction
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction
- First 100 Days - A plan for the economy
- Despite IFS criticism, the Tories will have the last laugh
- Labour and Conservatives: the manifestos
- Labour’s “Business manifesto” – a work in progress?
- Budget 2015: Our panellists give their reaction
- What to expect from the 2015 budget
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- Collective bargaining can begin to rebalance our economy
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- What to make of this year’s Autumn Statement?
- In an era of public spending restraint, how can economic inequality be addressed?
- Thomas Piketty talks inequality and politics with Class
- Securing the future of our public services
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Storify: Thomas Piketty in conversation with Lord Stewart Wood
- The significance of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- A Primer: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Why Class is hosting Thomas Piketty
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- Today’s Budget and the crisis in Ukraine
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- Hopeful signs in the labour market, but things remain a long way from normal
- Trade unions must be at the heart of the debate on living standards
- GDP figures and three graphs which show a weak recovery in the UK
- What to make of the latest claims on living standards?
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- The British left can be empowered by Obama’s speech on the economy
- Looking ahead to the Autumn Statement
- There are some things too important to be left to the market
- Households are being excluded from the benefits of growth
- Instead of blaming ordinary people we should be explaining the reasons for falling living standards
- The market is broken
- Austerity - there can be no compromise with a failed idea
- Flawed political economics are behind the calls for fiscal conservatism
- The Spirit Level Film - the story so far
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- The case for a Land Value Tax
- Involuntary idleness represents a massive waste of economic resources
- A budget speech of a chancellor who is trapped
- The scale of the Coalition government’s ambition
- It’s time to remortgage - put rents to use on a new wave of council house building
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- Social State: The return of squalor
- The Austerity Strategy Has Failed - March for A Future That Works
- The chicanery of this week’s economics
- This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
- Damning IMF report is a major blow to Osborne’s austerity drive
- Inequality, the crash and the crisis: Part 1 ‘The defining issue of our times’
- The neo-liberal project will not collapse on its own - we must replace it
- A new poll shows the consensus behind austerity is shattering
- There is no more pressing time to develop a coherent alternative to austerity
