{"id":9006,"date":"2011-03-01T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2011-03-01T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:35:11","slug":"britains-broken-economy-and-how-to-mend-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/01\/britains-broken-economy-and-how-to-mend-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s broken economy &#8211; and how to mend it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you want some reading material - for free - then there's an ebook that can be downloaded free with the above title.<\/p>\n<p>Details are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Britain's broken economy - and how to mend it<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">The new political economy network<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Foreword by Larry Elliott <br \/>Afterword by Jon Cruddas<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Contributors:<\/strong> Aditya Chakrabortty, Tom Clark, Ismail Eturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Stewart Lansley, Adam Leaver, Toby Lloyd, Mick Moran, Richard Murphy, Howard Reed, Jonathan Rutherford, Duncan Weldon, Karel Williams<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">\u00ac\u00a9 NPEN 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">The most important task facing Labour now is to come up with a vision of the economy that is different from what it was putting forward in the period before the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Labour must now discard the snake oil of neo-classical economics and develop ideas for the economy that are both practical and humane - based on the principles of environmentally sustainable wealth creation, durability, cultural inventiveness, equality and human flourishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">The New Political Economy Network is a non-aligned, centre-left initiative that brings together experts in economics and other disciplines, existing research projects, campaigning organisations, think tanks, journalists, activists and politicians. Its aim is to help build the intellectual foundations and shape the policy framework of this new economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwbooks.co.uk\/ebooks\/BritainsBrokenEconomy.pdf\">Download here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you want some reading material &#8211; for free &#8211; then there&#8217;s an ebook that can be downloaded free with the above title. Details<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/01\/britains-broken-economy-and-how-to-mend-it-2\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}