Ann Pettifor, Director of Jubilee 2000 Coalition, UK, proposes a new legal framework for regulating relations between sovereign debtors and creditors, as a contribution to stabilizing and disciplining financial flows, and to reducing impoverishment caused by reckless lending and borrowing....

A review essay on Basil John Moore, Shaking the Invisible Hand : Complexity, Endogenous Money and Exogenous Interest Rates, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2006, pp. xxvi+556.

Paper takes Toshiaki Hirai’s (2007) Keynes’s Theoretical Development: From the Tract to the General Theory as motivation for a re-evaluation of the transition between the Treatise and General Theory. Hirai’s work is important because he frees the transition from the ‘Keynesian’...

This history of National Accounts in Britain is done with two specific considerations in mind. First, the role of the economist John Maynard Keynes-as theoretician, compiler, supporter and user-is addressed. This role is substantial and has been greatly misunderstood or misrepresented by a large...

Proposes an extended quality framework for meeting commitments to monitor closely quarterly estimates and publish material on specific data setsThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) regularly monitors and publishes indicators of the quality of its statistics. However, when publishing plans...

This paper seeks to bolster the view that Keynes was a monetary economist concerned primarily with monetary and not fiscal policy. His most fundamental policy conclusion for national economies was that the authorities could control the long-term rate of interest and should do so to promote...