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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.

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, August 2021

APPG on Limits to Growth | Newsletter, August 2021

This newsletter reports on the success of an event on 13 July, at which the APPG launched a new policy briefing on overcoming growth dependency in adult social care. It also highlights the APPG’s latest activities and plans, and rounds up the latest developments in postgrowth thinking and policymaking, in the UK and internationally.

Placing sustainable prosperity at the heart of the economic recovery – a new Beveridge report | Letter to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove

Placing sustainable prosperity at the heart of the economic recovery – a new Beveridge report | Letter to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove

The APPG has written to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, to set out recommendations to the Cabinet Office for commissioning a new Beveridge report, to research and consult the public on the innovations required to ensure public policy is fit to address the UK’s most important needs for the twenty-first century.

Tackling growth dependency—the case of adult social care | Briefing Paper

Tackling growth dependency—the case of adult social care | Briefing Paper

On 13 July 2021, the APPG on Limits to Growth launched the fourth briefing in our policy paper series, which provides a framework for identifying, analysing and transforming growth dependencies in the welfare state. Using adult social care as our case study, we explore how growing demand, rising costs and rent seeking can create growth dependencies, and how to tackle them.

APPG on Limits to Growth Newsletter, June 2021

APPG on Limits to Growth Newsletter, June 2021

Welcome to the June 2021 edition of the APPG on Limits to Growth Newsletter. This is the first newsletter since the 2021 AGM and re-election of officers. The edition contains details of an upcoming policy briefing, additional funding for the APPG, the publication of three high profile reports and a roundup of events, news and comment on postgrowth issues, including Post Growth the new book by Professor Tim Jackson.

Tackling growth dependency in the welfare system—The case of adult social care | APPG meeting, 13 July 2021

Tackling growth dependency in the welfare system—The case of adult social care | APPG meeting, 13 July 2021

Join us for the launch of a new policy briefing on overcoming the growth dependency in the welfare system. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, policymakers and practitioners in social care and other parts of the welfare system, we will discuss a new paper in our An Economy That Works series for parliamentarians , looking specifically at adult social care.

Budget 2021: Five priorities for a green and fair economic recovery | APPG letter to the Chancellor, 1 Mar 2021

Budget 2021: Five priorities for a green and fair economic recovery | APPG letter to the Chancellor, 1 Mar 2021

MPs and peers from two all-party parliamentary groups have written to the Chancellor urging him to use the 2021 Spring Budget to build a green and fair economic recovery post Covid. As the last Budget before the UN climate summit (COP26), the Budget will be a litmus test of the UK’s climate leadership, says the letter, and must deliver action on climate and nature.

A budget for a green recovery: A special session of the APPG on the Green New Deal and the APPG on Limits to Growth  | 24 Feb 2021, 9am

A budget for a green recovery: A special session of the APPG on the Green New Deal and the APPG on Limits to Growth  | 24 Feb 2021, 9am

This special meeting, co-hosted by the APPG on the Green New Deal and the APPG on Limits to Growth, ahead of the budget on 3rd March will explore a range of the options available to the Chancellor from government borrowing while interest rates are low, to redirecting de-facto subsidies in fossil fuels to a wealth tax and a new green home for the nation’s savings.

Gross Domestic Wellbeing | Early Day Motion #1235

Gross Domestic Wellbeing | Early Day Motion #1235

APPG chair Caroline Lucas MP tabling EDM—calling on the House of Commons to welcome the recent work on Gross Domestic Wellbeing by the Carnegie Trust, the aim of developing holistic approaches to understanding and measuring progress that focus on people’s wellbeing, rather than GDP growth; and to put this agenda at the heart of all policy making, including budgets, as part of ‘Building Back Better’.

A post-growth recovery? | APPG letter to the Chancellor, 7 July 2020

A post-growth recovery? | APPG letter to the Chancellor, 7 July 2020

The APPG on Limits to Growth has written to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak urging him to prioritise wellbeing if his plans to rebuild the economy after Covid are to lead to a green recovery. Green jobs and funding for traineeships expected to be announced by the Chancellor are welcome, but a truly green recovery means pivoting to an economy where the measures of success are public health, personal and social wellbeing and the health of the natural environment rather than GDP growth statistics.

How can we build back better after COVID? | Panel discussion w/ Caroline Lucas, Tim Jackson, Mariana Mazzucato, Michael Marmot and David King

How can we build back better after COVID? | Panel discussion w/ Caroline Lucas, Tim Jackson, Mariana Mazzucato, Michael Marmot and David King

Set out to engage MPs across the political spectrum, the online discussion was chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4), and expertly deliberated on the prospects for a socially and environmentally just economic recovery—which takes into account not only the need to prevent the worst of climate breakdown, but does so in a way that sustainably strengthens the wellbeing of people.

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