Priorities for a new political economy: Memos to the left
This substantial new Policy Network publication combines
instructive data analysis of new opinion polling from the UK, US, Sweden and
Germany, with a series of essays and memos written by leading scholars from
around the world.
The essays and data analysis set the scene, delivering perceptive and lucid
rallying points for centre-left politics, while the memos incisively spell out
priorities for a new political economy.
The publication will be presented and discussed at a major political gathering of over 250 policymakers and experts from across the centre-left
in Oslo on 12-13 May.
An executive summary and breakdown of the findings of the exclusive YouGov
polling which informed this publication can be viewed here.
Contents
Preface
Olaf Cramme
Data Analysis - The quest for a new governing purpose
Policy Network
Priorities for a new political economy
Markets, power and politics: Is there a liberalism beyond social democracy?
Colin Crouch
Liberal social democracy, fairness and good capitalism
Will Hutton
The institutional foundations of middle-class democracy
Jacob S. Hacker
Nordic hybrid power – politics with markets
Jon Erik Dølvik
The new political imperatives of public spending
Rainer Münz
Memos to the left
Cut to the chase: 15 political truths for the centre-left
Andrés Velasco & Francisco Díaz
Resisting globalisation is a losing strategy
Robert J. Shapiro
How to fulfil the promise of opportunity for all
Isabel V. Sawhill
Don’t drop the social investment strategy but give it more bite
Frank Vandenbroucke
End the self-destructive reliance on the state
Marc Stears
Building blocks for a new politics of production
Roger Liddle
Smart regulation to reap the benefits of the market economy
Layna Mosley
A practical proposal for an international tax on the wealthiest citizens of
the world
Patrick Weil
Redesign private ownership to create a truly generative economy
Marjorie Kelly
Protect the public interest from highly corrosive mergers and acquisitions
Hans Schenk
Square up to conservatives on fiscal discipline
Carlos Mulas-Granados & Carmen de Paz
Why austerity must not mean the end of active labour market policies
Chris Tilly
Why we need a jobs-led strategy for economic revival
Kevin Doogan
Move on from flexibility and its diminishing returns
Paul Gregg
Flexicurity 2.0 is the model for the 21st century
Jon Kvist
Strengthen labour market institutions over big finance
Stein Reegård
Focus on labour market churning and the low-pay, no-pay cycle
Tracy Shildrick
How to counteract the polarisation of the labour market
Luc Soete & Jo Ritzen
Have faith in the power of education
Gudmund Hernes
Additional information
Agenda - Progressive Governance Conference