Hello and welcome to politics theory other. Last month, the Progressive Economics

2022 conference, a one-day festival of transformative economic thinking, took place at the

University of Greenwich. In a world battered by crises facing environmental collapse,

PEF brought together leading thinkers from across the progressive movement to present the

arguments and solutions we need to build a radically better economy.

Speakers included Gargi Batacharya, R.M. Bananav, Francesca Brea, James Medway, Kate Pickett,

John McDonnell MP, and David Edgerton, amongst many others.

PTO was pleased to be an official media partner of Progressive Economics 2022,

and in the coming weeks we'll be posting some of the excellent panel discussions

that took place at the event.

First up is a session on the cost of living crisis.

In the panel discussion, James Medway, Susan Newman and

Rupert Russell discussed the causes of price rises, the disastrous effects of conventional

policy responses, and what the real solutions are to high inflation.

This is Progressive Economy Forum.

This is a recording of the How to End the Cost of Living Crisis panel from Progressive Economics 2022, a festival for the future of economics.

The astonishing rise in prices we're currently experiencing is causing misery

and most forecasters expect inflation to worsen.

But mainstream solutions seem to involve either causing a recession or cutting wages.

Where are the price rises coming from?

And what are the real solutions to high inflation?

Rupert Russell is a writer, filmmaker and the author of Price Wars,

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