Reports & Briefings

New insights, in-depth analysis, and innovative policy solutions to critical issues.
Briefing

The Antisocial Contract

29.11.2024
Briefing

Employment Rights Bill

26.11.2024
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A Tale of Two Towns: Economic Disadvantage and Political Disempowerment in Ex-Industrial England

22.11.2024
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A Compass Rose for National and Global Development: Five Institutional Capacities the G20 Can Build to Unleash Green Investment

15.11.2024
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A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy

18.10.2024
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In Development: An Institutional Architecture for GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund

11.10.2024
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Shareholder Primacy and Business Investment

22.9.2024
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Take Back the Future: Democratising Power over AI

11.9.2024
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Purchasing Power: A Public Option Retail Arm for Great British Energy

5.8.2024
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Deep Trouble: Fixing Our Broken Water System

11.7.2024
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Common Wealth's Vision for Great British Energy

9.7.2024
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Transition in Motion: The Essential Role of Public Coordination in Green Transport

28.6.2024
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Charging Up the UK: Public Action to End Regional Inequalities in EV Infrastructure

28.6.2024
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Fair, Green Pensions for All

27.6.2024
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A Firm Partnership

16.5.2024
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Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI

15.5.2024
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Plug-in Public Power: The Case for Community Energy Democracy

26.4.2024
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Bridge Over Troubled Water: Rethinking the Role of the State in New York Offshore Wind

1.3.2024
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Laughing All The Way to The Bank: Bank Profits Soar While Taxes Stay Low

23.2.2024
Report

The Greatest Generation: How Public Power Can Deliver Net Zero Faster, Fairer and Cheaper

12.2.2024
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Inflation, Profits and Market Power: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda

7.12.2023
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Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages

6.11.2023
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Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution

8.10.2023
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Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010

15.9.2023
Report

Undefined Benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System

3.8.2023
Report

The Asset Manager Arsenal: Who Owns the UK Arms Industry?

9.7.2023
Briefing

Repairing English Water in the Wake of the Thames Water Crisis

4.7.2023
Report

Coordinating the Green Prosperity Plan

15.6.2023
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“Sustainable” ESG Funds Hold Over $1.5 Billion in Coal, Oil and Gas Bonds

28.4.2023
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Social Value Index: Building the Case for the Democratic Commons in Tottenham

27.4.2023
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Stagnant and Unequal: How the UK is an Outlier in Corporate Governance and Why That Matters

24.3.2023
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A Wholesale Transformation: Evaluating Proposals for Electricity Market Reform

7.3.2023
Briefing

National Grid: Ownership and Key Financial Indicators

16.1.2023
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Buy Back Better: The Case for Raising Taxes on Dividends and Buybacks

27.10.2022
Briefing

Solidarity in Supply: Five Global Justice Policies for Decarbonising Transport

12.10.2022
Briefing

The Big Buyback

11.10.2022
Report

Power to the People: The Case for a Publicly Owned Generation Company

26.9.2022
Briefing

Owning the Gigafactory

22.9.2022
Briefing

Steel the Deal: The Race to the Top for European Green Steel

17.8.2022
Briefing

A Sunrise Industry: Unlocking Green Steel Investment

8.8.2022
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Asset Manager Capitalism: Where Next?

21.6.2022
Report

Prices and Profits after the Pandemic

20.6.2022
Briefing

The Great Divide: Examining Labour Compensation and Dividend Growth

2.5.2022
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May Day: A World of Work to Win

1.5.2022
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The Natural Capital Approach: Rethinking England’s Local Nature Recovery Strategies

21.4.2022
Report

The Passive Revolution

8.4.2022
Report

A Right to Food Systems

30.3.2022
Briefing

All at Sea: From the P&O scandal to a New Deal for Workers

23.3.2022
Briefing

Joint Budget Briefing: Securing a Thriving Future for UK Green Steel

19.3.2022
Report

Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System

14.3.2022
Report

Performing without Transforming: The Case for a Windfall Tax in the United States

7.3.2022
Briefing

Drilling Down: UK Oil and Gas Financial Performance

12.1.2022
Report

Do Dividends Pay our Pensions?

10.1.2022
Report

Passive Attack: Charting the Rise of Passive Index Trackers

17.12.2021
Report

Farming the Future: Transforming the Ownership of Food Systems Research & Data

3.12.2021
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FFS? Fossil Fuels Support in the UK Tax System

25.11.2021
Report

Insuring Against Climate Catastrophe

4.11.2021
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Power Ahead: An Energy System Fit for the Future

21.10.2021
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Digital Co-Ops and the Democratic Economy

15.9.2021
Report

Under New Management: Share Ownership and the Growth of UK Asset Manager Capitalism

7.9.2021
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All Aboard: Transforming Bus Services

19.7.2021
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Why Are Some Children Worth More than Others? The Private-State School Funding Gap in England

9.6.2021
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"Deal or no deal?" Exploring the Potential, Limits and Potential Limits of Green New Deals

6.5.2021
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Towards Reparative Climate Justice: from Crises to Liberations

12.4.2021
Report

Low Interest Rates and the Productivity Puzzle

6.4.2021
Report

Goliath and Goliath: Asset Management and Ownership in the UK Economy

29.3.2021
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Caring for the Earth, Caring for Each Other: An Industrial Strategy for Adult Social Care

20.3.2021
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Covid-19 and 21st Century Public Ownership

8.3.2021
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"Doing Well By Doing Good"? Examining the Rise of ESG Investing

20.12.2020
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A Climate Retrofit for UK Trade

17.12.2020
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A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms

2.12.2020
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Democratic by Design: A New Community Wealth Building Vision for the British Economy After Covid-19

5.10.2020
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Democratising Knowledge: Transforming Intellectual Property and Research and Development

19.9.2020
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Charting a Just and Sustainable Recovery for Scotland: A Plan for Scotland’s Programme for Government

25.8.2020
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Commoning Intellectual Property: Public Funding and the Creation of a Knowledge Commons

29.7.2020
Report

Data and the Future of Work

20.7.2020
Report

Reimagining Public Health

3.7.2020
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Public Higher Education for the Public Good: Addressing the Covid-19 crisis

8.6.2020
Report

Redesigning Tax for a Just, Green Recovery

1.6.2020
Report

Democratic Digital Infrastructure

18.5.2020
Report

Commoning the Company

17.4.2020
Report

Signal and Switch: Toward a More Resilient Rail System for the UK

2.4.2020
Briefing

Emergency Landing: How Public Stakes Can Secure a Sustainable Future for Aviation

22.3.2020
Report

Ownership Futures: Towards Democratic Public Ownership in the 21st Century

11.2.2020
Briefing

Full Fibre Futures: Democratic Ownership and the UK's Digital Infrastructure

9.12.2019
Report

Democratising Football

20.11.2019
Report

Examining the Inclusive Ownership Fund

13.11.2019
Report

Jet Set Go: The Case for Electric-Only UK Private Jet Flights from 2025

4.11.2019
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Digital Public Assets: Rethinking Value, Access and Control of Public Sector Data in the Platform Age

1.11.2019
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The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution

20.9.2019
Report

A Green New Deal for Nature

11.9.2019
Report

Organised Labour and the Green New Deal

9.9.2019
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An Industrial Strategy at the Heart of a Green New Deal

9.9.2019
Report

Green New Deal Politics: From Grassroots to Mainstream

28.8.2019
Report

Anchoring the Green New Deal: Building Transformational Institutions

27.8.2019
Report

For a Global Green New Deal

22.8.2019
Report

Internationalising the Green New Deal: Strategies for Pan-European Coordination

22.8.2019
Report

Community Wealth Building for Economic and Environmental Justice

14.8.2019
Report

Green New Deal Devolution

14.8.2019
Report

Green Central Banking

8.8.2019
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