Publications

Rating Retention

Options for redesigning the the business rates retention system

Councils in Crisis

Local Government austerity 2009/10 - 2024/25

Time for demand

Boosting productivity with public investment, minimum wages and paid holiday

Changing the fiscal rules

Unlocking public investment for a Green New Deal

Nothing personal

Replacing the personal tax allowance with a Weekly National Allowance

Framing the Economy

How to win the case for a better system

Turning back to the sea

A Blue New Deal to revitalise coastal communities

Taking control of RBS

People-powered banking that puts communities first

NEF Review of the Year 2014 – 2015

A new ecological macroeconomic model

Analysing the interactions between the ecosystem, the nancial system and the macroeconomy

Blue New Deal

Good jobs for coastal communities through healthy seas

Financial System Resilience Index

Our Financial System Resilience Index, based on insights from complexity science, reveals that the UK’s resilience declined dramatically in the 2000s to levels far below those of other leading industrial economies. Despite some marginal improvements since the crisis of 2008, without major structural changes our financial system remains at risk of future crisis.

Real Britain Index (RBI)

Working for the economy

The economic case for trade unions

Economic health check

A return to growth but no recovery

NEF Review of the Year 2012 – 2013

Framing the economy

The austerity story shapes how most of us think and talk about the economy – but it isn't set in stone

A simple model of income, aggregate demand and the process of credit creation by private banks