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Today was the second time that I have gone to Canary Wharf to hear Ed Balls speak. The first time was the evening before his celebrated Bloomberg speech in the summer of 2010 in which he warned George Osborne ‘against ripping out the foundations of the house just as...

Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is good for women and good for the economy. The gender gap in entrepreneurship has received less attention as a public policy matter than other areas of inequality. But the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...

Why Labour needs a new political economy —There is no doubt in my mind that the recent Labour government suffered from not having a credible, alternative political economy to neoliberalism; that is, it had no alternative view of what role the state should play in the...

The Progress annual conference 2013 session on earning the public’s trust on the economy was lively and chock-a-block with ideas. The panelists, John Eatwell, Margaret Hodge, Nick Pearce, Ann Pettifor and Jonathan Portes, brought a wide range of perspectives to the...