Timing

Monday 28th September: 14:00 - 15:00

Chair

[TBD]

Speakers

[Speakers will be announced nearer the date]

Topic

The Productive State

The session will be based on the Productive State — a public institutional architecture for the supply side of the economy, designed to intervene at the specific sites where instability, extraction and underinvestment originate. We will ask how the new Government can build an economy of abundance, security, and stability – a decommodified foundation of essentials, a stabilised and dynamic market middle, and an innovation frontier enabled by the security the foundation provides.

About Common Wealth

Founded in 2019, Common Wealth is a think tank, operating across the UK and the US. Our work is based on the insight that ownership is a structuring force in our economy, and that current distributions and relations of property and power are social in origin — and therefore can and must be reimagined. Our mission is to develop bold but implementable policy solutions that advance economic democracy, public ownership, and social justice across key sectors including energy, housing, and land. We work with a variety of organisations from community and grassroots groups to national and international policymakers, combining rigorous analysis and research with bold ideas for change.