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Beyond Redistribution—Confronting inequality in an era of low growth | Briefing Paper

Beyond Redistribution—Confronting inequality in an era of low growth | Briefing Paper

The second in our series of briefing papers on building An Economy That Works explores inequality in the UK. It examines the evidence for rising inequality over the last fifty years, estimates the economic welfare lost to society from an unequal distribution of incomes and addresses the critical question of managing inequality in the context of declining growth rates.

Understanding, Safeguarding and Strengthening the Precautionary Principle | Briefing Paper

Understanding, Safeguarding and Strengthening the Precautionary Principle | Briefing Paper

Uncertainties over which EU environmentally-related policies are likely to be culled in the process and aftermath of the ‘Great Repeal Bill’ should be cause for concern regarding the long term health of both humans and the ecosystems on which we all depend. The Precautionary Principle offers a comprehensive defence against policies which favour ‘growth’ at the cost of potentially irreversible or catastrophic risk.

Spring Budget 2017 | Response by the APPG on Limits to Growth

Spring Budget 2017 | Response by the APPG on Limits to Growth

Budgets are routinely analysed by people who believe there is nothing problematic about economic growth. Forecast rates of GDP growth play a key role in the Budget calculations, and Budgets are praised or criticised based on the e ect they are deemed to have on future growth. In our view, such analysis misses a critical aspect of the contemporary debate: namely the prospect that there may be environmental, social and secular limits to economic growth.

Limits Revisited: A Review of the Limits to Growth Debate | Report

Limits Revisited: A Review of the Limits to Growth Debate | Report

Four and a half decades after the Club of Rome published its landmark report on Limits to Growth, the study remains critical to our understanding of economic prosperity. This new review of the Limits debate outlines the contents of the Club of Rome’s report, traces the history of responses to it and dispels some of the myths surrounding it. One of the most important lessons from the study is that early responses are absolutely vital as limits are approached.

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