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What future for capitalism?

ippr, in conjunction with Friends Provident Foundation, is running a programme of work in 2008/09 on Tomorrow’s Capitalism, consisting a series of debates, podcasts, and commissioned papers and articles.

Mixing it

We may be underestimating the economic benefits of migration and diversity, especially at a local level. Drawing on both British and international studies, we found three main ways in which “people mix” can benefit local economies.

Britain's Got Brains

The 2008 winner is Matti Siemiatycki, whose idea for a benchmarking scheme to reduce the amount of public money wasted on massive public contracts fought off tough competition to identify the most pressing problem facing Britain today.

ippr hosts a series of high-level security lectures

Running alongside the Security Commission’s work, ippr is hosting a series of lectures from prominent speakers including Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg MP and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith MP.

The injustice of in-work poverty

The belief that work - for those who can - is the best route out of poverty has been central to Britain’s welfare state since Beveridge first set out his vision for an end to want, ignorance, disease, squalor and idleness. By Kayte Lawton.

Manchester United?

Manchester City Council and the Labour Party have been at pains to emphasise what they believe to be a mutual benefit of the conference coming to the city. But a poll in the Manchester Evening News suggests that Mancunians don't share the same view. This in itself demonstrates the distance between politicians and the public.

A Way Out for Brown

Is Gordon Brown finished? Well not necessarily so, according to ippr's Michael Kenny. And the answer might be found in the PM's own political identity.

Population: size isn't everything

Debate about the UK's growing population must move beyond statistics: we must maximise the benefits of migration, says ippr's Jill Rutter.

Premiership clubs should become ethical employers

The Barclays Premier League is the most lucrative football league in the world. But despite this affluence, every single club is condemning many of its workers off the pitch and away from the spotlight to a life of working poverty.

Marginalised and depressed

Older people's mental health and wellbeing has been severely neglected while young people's health and wellbeing have been the focus of many new policies and debate. 2.4 million older people are estimated to have depression which impairs their quality of life.

Oxford Media Convention

Media Crossroads

Senior government and industry figures come together to discuss challenges and opportunities around media policy, strategy and regulation.

Capitalism in Crisis?

Tomorrow's Capitalism

This debate will seek to explore and understand the implications of the current financial crisis and ask what needs to happen to ensure that it does not happen again.

Getting Personal

The role of personal advisers

This one day conference will discuss what personal advisers need in order to deliver personal, effective services and sustainable outcomes.

Communications / Membership

New publication

Your Place or Mine?

Improving understanding of the economic impacts of migration in the UK, and how policy should respond to that migration in order to maximise its economic benefits.

ppr journal

There is another way

ippr's Public Policy Research Journal features Lisa Harker and Carey Oppenheim on how progressive politics should reinvent itself.