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Ann Pettifor is a British economist who’s spent decades calling out the global financial system for what it is—a system that serves the wealthy few while leaving the rest to deal with the fallout. She helped lead the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel crushing debts in the Global South, and she’s been warning about financial crises long before they hit the headlines.
In her upcoming book The Global Casino, she lays out how big finance moves money across borders with no accountability, driving up debt, fueling inequality, and making it harder to tackle climate breakdown. At a time when ordinary people are being told to tighten their belts, while the money markets remain untouched, Pettifor argues it’s the financial system—not working people—that needs to be reined in.
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Ann Pettifor is a British economist who’s spent decades calling out the global financial system for what it is—a system that serves the wealthy few while leaving the rest to deal with the fallout. She helped lead the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel crushing debts in the Global South, and she’s been warning about financial crises long before they hit the headlines.
In her upcoming book The Global Casino, she lays out how big finance moves money across borders with no accountability, driving up debt, fueling inequality, and making it harder to tackle climate breakdown. At a time when ordinary people are being told to tighten their belts, while the money markets remain untouched, Pettifor argues it’s the financial system—not working people—that needs to be reined in.
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![Short documentary: Barcelonas water business scam/Lestafa del negoci de laigua [es & eng]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YXfm6J0jl44/mqdefault.jpg "Short documentary: Barcelonas water business scam/Lestafa del negoci de laigua [es & eng]
Presented at the Future is Public conference 2019: https://futureispublic.org/
We are living in a crucial moment. Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, including fighting climate change and rising inequality, as well as the need to support refugees and provide universal access to public services that are human rights including housing, drinking water and sanitation services, energy, health care and education. These global problems call for public solutions.
A growing network of progressive, green municipalities is developing strategies to tackle these and many other critical issues. Cities are well positioned to explore direct democracy, and advance innovative economic models that build community wealth and create decent jobs. At the same time, we need a national level of coordination and ambition to reverse market fundamentalism, which is the root cause of our collective economic and social crises. Profit-driven, market-based policies led to the privatisation of our public services and to the denigration of solidarity and public service.
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