Economics for the Many
by John McDonnell (Editor)

About the Author
John McDonnell has been the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership since 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington since the 1997 general election.

About this book
Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.
Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the rise of automation and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, do the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of neoliberalism’s failure. With the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, and the extraordinary turnaround in Labour’s fortunes in the 2017 election, we have a real opportunity to build an economy in Britain that is radically fairer, radically more democratic, and radically more sustainable. But we need the right ideas and strategies if we’re going to get there.
Economics for the Many, edited and with an introduction by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, features contributions from the participants in his New Economics conferences, including Barry Gardiner, Ann Pettifor, Prem Sikka, and Guy Standing. It covers topics from housing, public ownership, and fairer international trading systems to industrial policy for the twenty-first century and how to tackle tax avoidance and regional imbalances. Together, the essays in this volume lay out a vision for a new economics, one that works for the many, not the few.

Table of contents
Introduction
1.Democratising Economics in a Post-truth World
2.Labour’s Fiscal Credibility Rule in Context
3.Rising to the Challenge of Tax Avoidance
4.To Secure a Future, Britain Needs a Green New Deal
5.Fair, Open and Progressive: The roots and Reasons behind Labour’s Global Trade Policy
6.‘De-financialising’ the UK Economy: The Importance of Public Banks
7.Better Models of Business Ownership
8.Beyond the Divide: Why Devolution Is Needed for National Prosperity
9.Democratic Ownership in the New Economy
10.A New Urban Economic System: The UK and the US
11.Debt Dependence and the Financialisation of Everyday Life
12.Platform Monopolies and the Political Economy of AI
13.A New Deal for Data
14.Rethinking Economics for a New Economy
15.Public Investment in Social Infrastructure for a Caring, Sustainable and Productive Economy
16.Rentier Capitalism and the Precariat: The Case for a Commons Fund
List of Contributors
Notes

Length: 256 pages
Publisher: Verso (November 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781788732239
ISBN-13: 978-1788732239