Rethinking employment: The case for a job guarantee
Join the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) as we discuss the idea of a public job guarantee scheme, and considers how it could help us recover from the pandemic and support a Green New Deal with leading experts Aurore Lalucq, Robert Skidelsky and Pavlina Tcherneva, chaired by Josh Ryan-Collins.
Rethinking employment: The case for a job guarantee
13 Jul 2020, 16:30 – 18:00
The COVID-19 pandemic has created job losses and employment-preserving interventions by governments on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But even before the pandemic, the consensus that a level of unemployment was a necessary evil in order to prevent inflation was being challenged. In this event, we will debate the idea of a public job guarantee scheme and consider how it could help us recover from the pandemic and support a Green New Deal. We’re joined by three international experts on these topics from the U.S., Britain and France.
A global engagement series: Public purpose in the time of COVID-19
Hosted by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), this virtual events series will ask the questions: What is ‘public purpose’ in the time of a global pandemic? What is the role of the State in shaping a social and economic recovery with a new directionality? Throughout the series, IIPP will be in conversation with leading global thinkers on today’s most pressing challenges, from the macroeconomic policy response to the effectiveness of different public governance solutions and civic engagement experimentation.
This series will also explore how to give public purpose to powerful digital technologies and rebuild more resilient economic systems and institutions, as well as what is needed across emerging economies to avoid spiralling into more debt and inequality.
The current global COVID-19 crisis is a wake-up call for a new public purpose which works for a more inclusive and sustainable global society.
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Member of the European Parliament
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Professor Emeritus of Political Economy and Member
Warwick University and House of Lords
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Head of Finance and Macroeconomics, and Senior Research Fellow
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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