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Argues UK state investment institutions underperform compared with European counterparts because outdated fiscal accounting rules constrain scale and effectiveness, limiting the government's ability to use public investment for strategic economic goals.
Promotes a New Economics Podcast miniseries, ‘Shockwave’, which explores how past energy crises have shaped the UK economy across policy, markets and household impacts.
Argues European firms are accumulating financial assets and raising shareholder payouts while cutting capital expenditure, warning that simple ‘derisking’ measures will not close Europe’s investment gap.
The New Economics Foundation argues that Andy Burnham’s economic transformation requires altering the UK’s fiscal and monetary framework, warning that short-term cost-of-living measures alone will not deliver structural change.
Estimates the national and regional economic costs of building a third runway at Heathrow, analysing impacts on jobs, local economies and wider fiscal effects to assess whether expansion delivers net benefit.
Argues that boosting job quality — pay, security, working conditions and progression — strengthens the labour market and supports a sustained jobs recovery, outlining how policy can shift employers towards ‘good work’.