TUC Conference: Economics for workers not wealth

A conference to examine the economic debates behind workers’ current demands and begin to develop an economy for workers not wealth.

ByTrades Union Congress (TUC)

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Thu, 2 February 2023, 09:30 – 17:00 GMT

LOCATION

TUC Congress House 23-28 Great Russell St London WC1B 3LS

ABOUT THIS EVENT

• 7 hours 30 minutes
• Mobile eTicket
• What do the current state of the public finances mean for public services, pay rises and an economy for workers?
• Who are the winners and losers from the current pay crisis ?
• Breakout sessions on the building blocks for a workers’ economy, including minimum wages, industrial strategy and addressing personal debt
• The international landscape for a workers’ economy
• Why central bank policy matters for working people

We are honoured to have joining us the following distinguished speakers, each with a long background in the public debate around economic policy:

• Andrew Martin Fischer – Professor of Inequality, Social Protection and Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Ann Pettifor chair of prime economics and winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking
• Filip Stefanović – senior economist at the Trades Union Advisory Committee to the OECED
• Mary-Ann Stephenson – director of the Women’s Budget Group
• Randeep Ramesh – chief leader writer for the Guardian newspaper
• Dr Phillip Turner – previously Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department and a member of Senior Management of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS),
• Stewart Lansley – visiting fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol who writes on inequality, wealth and poverty.
• Dr Robert Calvert Jump (Greenwich University) and Dr Jo Michell (University of West of England) – authors of ‘The Dangerous Fiction of the “Fiscal Black Hole”’
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