Anna Pick

Sep 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anna Pick |Mark Setterfield |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Teresa Ghilarducci

Photograph from Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe(1869) | Edward J. Woolsey / Public DomainFeathers were ruffled at Davos this year when, during a panel on “How to Trust Economics,” a speaker went rogue, accusing economists of being a “tribal clique” who only quote each other and have “blind faith” in models, however disconnected from real events they may be. The critique came not from an activist infiltrator but the European Central Bank president, Christine Lagarde.

Jun 25, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Scott Aquanno |Stephen Maher |Anna Pick |Teresa Ghilarducci

Illustration from Abhandlungen von Insecten (1764–1779) | D. Jacob Christian Schäffers / Public domainLeftist economics has struggled to counter the powerful metaphors that undergird neoliberalism. The image of the maxed-out national “credit card,” for instance, still pervades media narratives about austerity, despite economists’ best efforts to explain to reporters that government budgets are nothing like household budgets.

Apr 29, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anna Pick |Teresa Ghilarducci |Rick McGahey |Josephine Houman

Tontine Building, Wall Street, NY, 1797 (n.d.) | George Hayward / Smithsonian American Art Museum / CC0In 1933, Ferdinand Pecora, newly appointed Chief Counsel to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, subpoenaed Charles Mitchell, president of National City Bank (now Citibank).

Apr 12, 2023 | positivemoney.org | Anna Pick

London, Thursday 30th March The government has today published a long-awaited update to its Green Finance Strategy, setting out plans to map green investment flows, articulate investment needs by sector, and summarise “the relevant government policy and funding to make the sector investable” by the end of the year.

Apr 6, 2023 | positivemoney.org | Anna Pick

LONDON, 6th April 2023 Download the full letter: [pdf] and accompanying briefing [pdf]. Experts have warned that the government’s new Green Finance Strategy is “missing any meaningful action on winding down financing of fossil fuels”. Experts have written to Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Grant Shapps to express concern that despite Rishi Sunak’s promise to make London the first ‘Net Zero Financial Centre’, progress has stalled in key areas.