Ann Pettifor

In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Ann Pettifor and a group of English economists and thinkers, but it was ignored amidst the tumult of the financial crash. A decade later, the idea was revived among democratic socialists in the US, spearheaded by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal demands a radical and urgent reversal of the...

For readers of Brett Christophers, Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley, Pettifor unpacks the hidden world of shadow banking and show how global markets really work. Wall Street controls the price of anything. Larger than the national economies, and almost invisible, it nevertheless determines the international costs of everyday things - from the cost of oil to household goods and most...

According to leading economist Ann Pettifor, one of the few people to predict the 2008 financial crisis, money is not a commodity but a promise. This radical reconsideration of the power of money means that we can reimagine the way the economy works. The Production of Money also examines popular alternative debates on, and innovations in, money, such as “green...