TUC Conference: Economics for workers not wealth – London

After a year of economic turbulence, and a decade of pay stagnation, workers are once again being told that pay rises are unaffordable. This conference will examine the economic debates behind workers’ current demands, and set out an agenda for how to develop an economy for workers not wealth. 

• 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
• Heather Wakefield – 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”’