Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author, and public speaker. Her latest book, The Case for the Green New Deal, was published in hardback by Verso in 2019. By 2020, it had been translated into German by Hamburger Edition, Italian by Fazi Editore, and Swedish by Verbal Forlag. The English... Read more
Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author, and public speaker. Her latest book, The Case for the Green New Deal, was published in hardback by Verso in 2019. By 2020, it had been translated into German by Hamburger Edition, Italian by Fazi Editore, and Swedish by Verbal Forlag. The English paperback version, featuring an added chapter and an afterword, was released in September 2020.
Her book The Production of Money, published by Verso in Spring 2017, explains the nature of money and the monetary system, tackling complex topics such as Bitcoin and quantitative easing (QE) in an accessible way. It was also translated into German and later into Spanish.
In 2003, as editor of The Real World Economic Outlook (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Ann predicted an Anglo-American debt-deflationary crisis. This was followed in September 2006 by her book The Coming First World Debt Crisis, published by Palgrave, which foresaw the Global Financial Crisis.
Known for her work on sovereign debt and the international financial architecture, Ann led the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which, as part of an international movement, resulted in the cancellation of approximately $100 billion of debt owed by the poorest countries and the clearance of $30 billion of debt by the Nigerian government in 2005.
She is the Director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics), a network of economists promoting Keynesian monetary theory and policies, with a particular focus on the role of the financial sector in the economy. PRIME challenges conventional economic theory, arguing that it has failed to address the ongoing crises in the global economy and the existential threat of climate change.
Based in London, Ann actively participates in debates on the British and global economy. Alongside Professor Victoria Chick and Dr. Geoff Tily, she co-authored PRIME’s radical analysis of 100 years of UK public debt and its impact in The Economic Consequences of Mr. Osborne (July 2010).
She holds several key positions, including serving as a Council Member of the Progressive Economy Forum, Chair of the advisory board at Goldsmiths College Political Economy Research Centre, and an honorary fellow at City University’s Political Economy Research Centre. She is also a fellow of the New Economics Foundation. In 2015, the leader of the British Labour Party named her as one of a council of seven economic advisers, and in 2017, MP Kate Osamor appointed her to Labour’s Task Force on International Development. Ann is also a trustee of Promoting Economic Pluralism (PEP), a British organization dedicated to broadening perspectives in economic thought.