Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other.

In June, the Progressive Economics 2022 conference, a one-day festival of transformative economic

thinking, took place at the University of Greenwich.

In a world mattered 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 Garghi Baticharia, Aram Bananav, Francesca Brea, James Medway,

Kate Pickett, John MacDonald MP, and David Edgerton, amongst many others.

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

and we're posting some of the excellent panel discussions that took place at the event.

Government intervention is back in a big way,

as countries turned back on years of free market ideology to actively support national industries

in an increasingly competitive and unstable world.

This session with David Edgerton, Paul Sweeney and Michael Jacobs

presents the case for an active industrial strategy to meet social and economic goals.

Thank you. social and economic goals. This is Progressive Economy Forum.

This is a recording of the Industrial Strategy or Industrial Decline panel from Progressive

Economics 2022, a festival for the future of economics.

Government intervention is back in a big way, as countries turn back on years of free market

ideology to actively support national industries in an increasingly competitive and unstable

world. This session presents the case for an active industrial strategy to meet social and economic goals.

Our first speaker is Michael Jacobs, economist and political theorist, specialising in post-neo-liberal political economy,

climate change and environmental policy, and green and social

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