Postgrowth Economics

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, July 2023

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, July 2023

Welcome to the Summer 2023 edition of the APPG on Limits to Growth Newsletter, where we summarise the APPG’s recent activities and highlight some of the latest developments in postgrowth thinking and policymaking, in the UK and internationally.

NHS and Innovation in the Health Service | Natalie Bennett reflecting on persistent growth fixation in Lords debate

NHS and Innovation in the Health Service | Natalie Bennett reflecting on persistent growth fixation in Lords debate

On Thursday 15 June, members of the Lords debated the current performance of the NHS and innovation in the health service. The government is fixated on “growing the economy” and generating profits, instead of social innovation to deliver health, and other goods, for people. APPG member Natalie Bennett reflected on this as a speaker in the debate.

First Wellbeing Economy Forum hosted by Government of Iceland

First Wellbeing Economy Forum hosted by Government of Iceland

In June this year, Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir hosted the first Wellbeing Economy Forum in Reykjavík to discuss the interconnections between wellbeing and sustainability. The Forum included discussants from politics, science and civil society.

Financial Services and Markets Bill | Reasoned amendment objecting to 2nd Reading in Parliament

Financial Services and Markets Bill | Reasoned amendment objecting to 2nd Reading in Parliament

APPG members tabling ‘reasoned amendment’ to prevent the UK Government’s Financial Services and Markets Bill from passing its second reading; on the basis that it creates a renewed “objective to promote growth and competitiveness, rather than making the creation of a wellbeing economy designed to foster long-term economic resilience and prosperity its overarching objective”.

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, March 2022

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, March 2022

In this edition of the newsletter, we report on the APPG’s recent activities on finanical practices in the adult social care sector, an EAC oral evidence session on aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability, the latest on the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill and a review briefing of the Government’s outcome delivery plans.

Targeting Sustainability—A review of the UK Government’s outcome delivery plans | Briefing Paper

Targeting Sustainability—A review of the UK Government’s outcome delivery plans | Briefing Paper

In July 2021 the UK Government introduced a new system of outcome delivery plans (ODPs), designed to improve its focus on the delivery of key national priorities. This briefing examines this initial collection of ODPs, and holds it up to the findings of previous research on good practice—especially relating to the environment and wellbeing (sustainable prosperity) agenda.

Tackling predatory financial practices in the adult social care sector | Briefing note for Health and Care Bill Committee stage amendments 237, 238 and 239

Tackling predatory financial practices in the adult social care sector | Briefing note for Health and Care Bill Committee stage amendments 237, 238 and 239

This briefing note covers Health and Care Bill Committee stage amendments 237, 238 and 239. They seek to address the use of predatory financial practices by private sector firms operating in the adult social care sector. They have been tabled by Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle and were discussed on 4 February 2022.

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, December 2021

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, December 2021

This newsletter reports on a recent event at which the APPG on Limits to Growth (jointly with the APPG on the Green New Deal) launched a new briefing on finance and public debt in the context of the levelling-up agenda and vital climate goals. We highlight the APPG’s latest activities, and latest developments in postgrowth thinking and policymaking, in the UK and internationally.

Predatory financial practices and the adult social care sector | Early Day Motion #767

Predatory financial practices and the adult social care sector | Early Day Motion #767

APPG vice chair Clive Lewis MP tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) to call on the Government to address the predatory financial practices as exposed in the recent BBC Panorama reportage ‘Crisis in Care: Follow the Money’ by amending the Health and Care Bill to prevent financial assistance being mis-used. Co-sponsors of the motion are Caroline Lucas, Dan Carden, Kate Hollern, Kim Johnson and Jim Shannon.

Tackling predatory financial practices in the adult social care sector | Briefing note for second reading of the Health and Care Bill

Tackling predatory financial practices in the adult social care sector | Briefing note for second reading of the Health and Care Bill

The Health and Care Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday 7 December. Coinciding with a new Panorama investigation, Crisis in Care: Follow the Money, this briefing proposes three ways in which the Health and Care Bill should be amended to tackle the harmful impacts of financialisation in the care home sector.

Beyond the Debt Controversy—Fiscal and monetary policy for the post-pandemic era | Briefing Paper

Beyond the Debt Controversy—Fiscal and monetary policy for the post-pandemic era | Briefing Paper

In the years since the financial crisis, a heated debate has broken out amongst macroeconomists about the appropriate roles of fiscal and monetary policy in managing public sector debt. This briefing introduces the main lines of argument on both sides of the controversy. It finds i.a. that a return to fiscal austeritywould be both dangerous and unjustified and that moving beyond ideology is key to the levelling-up agenda.

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