Ann Pettifor

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Ann Pettifor (2000)

Ann Pettifor (born 1947 or 1949 in South Africa ) is a British - South African economist.

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Pettifor grew up in South Africa and graduated from Witwatersrand University with a degree in Politics and Economics .

During the 1980s, she held several positions as a consultant to Frances Morrell, director of the Inner London Education Authority. She later advised the Greater London Council Ken Livingstone. She also advised Labor MP Margaret Beckett , who served in the Labor government in 1997 as Minister for Trade and Industry. Pettifor also worked as a lobbyist for Ian Greer Associates.

In 1998, Pettifor became famous for its Jubilee 2000 campaign , which worked to eradicate the debts of poor countries around the world. As a result, the following year at the G8 summit in Cologne the waiver of around 100 billion US dollars in debts of the 18 poorest countries was decided. Pettifor received worldwide attention for her book The Coming First World Debt Crisis , published in 2006 , which, in retrospect, reads like a prediction of the world financial crisis that would soon follow . She advocates the creation of framework conditions for financial capitalism . She also clearly points out the effects of the climate crisis and advocated a Green New Deal . She worked u. a. with economist Victoria Chick . She also dealt with the so-called helicopter money .

Ann Pettifor is the director of the Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) think tank and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation . She describes herself as a follower of Keynesianism .

In 2015, UK Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Pettifor to a seven-member board of economic experts to develop the party's economic strategy.

Awards

Ann Pettifor was honored in 1999 by the city of Callao , Peru for her commitment to debt relief for Peru. In 2000 she received the Pax Christi International Peace Prize together with Laura Vargas . In 2001 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle . She was awarded a Lambeth Degree by the Archbishop of Canterbury that same year. The President of Nigeria , Olusegun Obasanjo , made her a member of the Order of the Niger (MON) for their campaign for debt relief for the poorest countries in Africa. In 2018, she received the Hannah Arendt Prize, jointly awarded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Bremen Senate , for her book Die Produktion des Geldes .

Publications (selection)

  • (as editor :) Real World Economic Outlook - the Legacy of Globalization: Debt and Deflation . Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 1-4039-1795-7 .
  • The Coming First World Debt Crisis . Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 0-230-00785-6 .
  • The production of money . A plea against the power of the banks . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 3-86854-318-X (English: The Production of Money - How to Break the Power of Bankers . London 2017. Translated by Ursel Schäfer).
  • Green New Deal - Why we can, we have to do . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-86854-338-4 (English: The Case for the Green New Deal . London 2019. Translated by Ursel Schäfer).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Wolschner: “We have to manage capitalism”. In: taz.de . January 12, 2019, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Ann Pettifor is the 2018 Hannah Arendt Prize winner for political thinking. In: boell.de. Heinrich Böll Foundation , July 18, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Helsinki Group - Members. In: helsinkiprocess.fi. Archived from the original on July 6, 2007 ; accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ About - Prime Economics. In: primeeconomics.org. Accessed January 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ About - Ann Pettifor. In: annpettifor.com. Accessed January 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Jeremy Smith: Ann Pettifor invited to join Labor Leader's new Economic Advisory Committee. In: primeeconomics.org. September 27, 2015, accessed January 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pettifor, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-South African economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947 or 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH South Africa