Ann Pettifor - The Case for the Green New Deal

Wednesday 30 November 2022

7.30–9pm GMT Online, Zoom

The Green New Deal (GND) has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor’s flat. In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economists and thinkers, but it was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas were revived within the democratic socialists in the US, forefronted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal demands a radical and urgent reversal of the current state of the global economy, and includes total decarbonisation and a commitment to fairness and social justice.

“‘The Case for the Green New Deal’ succinctly explains what the GND is, where the idea came from, why it’s necessary, and how to make it happen. As an economist and expert in monetary theory, Pettifor is uniquely well placed to describe how the GND can be funded.”
– Morning Star

Ann’s book The Case for the Green New Deal can be purchased from the Resurgence online shop.

Read this recent Ecologist article about Ann: “Economist Ann Pettifor predicted the 2008 economic crash. And predicted a ‘shuddering shock’ just ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Find out what she sees coming next…”

Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author and public speaker. Her latest book, ‘The Case for the Green New Deal’, was published in hardback in 2019. The paperback version, with an added chapter, Afterword, was published a year later. Ann is director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics), a network of economists promoting Keynesian monetary theory and policies and focusing on the role of the finance sector in the economy. She is a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum, chair of the advisory board of the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths, London, holds an honorary fellowship at City University’s Political Economy Research Centre, and is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation.

This will be a Zoom webinar with Q&A. Please send your questions for Ann to events@resurgence.org

Tickets £6.50 including booking fee.

This event will raise money for The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity (no. 1120414).

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