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Ann Pettifor is an international political economist best known for predicting the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with her book: The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave, 2006). She is the author of The Global Casino (Verso), The Case for the Green New Deal (2019) and The Production of Money (2017).
She is a member of the Scottish government’s Just Transition Commission.
Her book, The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and the Planet (2026) sets out to turn readers’ attention to the invisible, but powerful global financial system. She argues that the activities of speculators within the system remain largely hidden but are hugely impactful on both our ecosystem and our cost-of-living: the prices of our daily bread, pensions, energy and housing.