With prices predicted to rise across the board for the remainder of the year, what can the relationship between wages and growth tell us?
What impact will today’s cost-of-living crisis have on our local businesses and the economic landscape at large? This is the question Chris Giles, economics editor for the Financial Times, is putting to our panel of experts: leading economists Vicky Pryce and Sarah Smith, CEO of the Royal Statistical Society Stian Westlake, and restaurateur Imogen Waite, whose company Season + Taste runs three Bristol-based restaurants: Bravas, Gambas, Cargo Cantina, and until its recent closure, Bakers & Co.
Join us to find out what’s happening behind the headlines – and what’s in store for businesses and workers as they face the toughest economic landscape for three decades.
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Chris Giles became economics editor for the Financial Times in October 2004, having previously served as a leader writer. His reporting beat covers global and UK economic affairs and he writes a UK economics column fortnightly. Before joining the FT as economics editor, he was an economics reporter for the BBC, worked for Ofcom, the telecommunications regulator, and started his career with seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Chris loves numbers.
Vicky Pryce is a leading economist working on UK, global and Eurozone issues. Having worked in senior positions in business and government, she went on to become Chief Economic Advisor at the respected Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) covering the economic situation, and the policy implications for business. She is patron of ‘Pro-bono Economics’ and has served as Master of one of the City of London’s Livery Companies. She sits on the Department for Business Innovation and Skills’ panel monitoring the economy and is on City AM’s Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. She is the author of a number of books, including Women Vs Capitalism and It’s the Economy, Stupid.
Sarah Smith is Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in applied micro – specifically consumer behaviour and public economics. She has worked on pensions, saving, retirement and welfare policy and the economics of not-for-profit organisations. She works with a number of charity organisations to understand what motivates individuals to give and how donations respond to different (economic and non-economic) incentives. She is a research associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where she started her career and at CEPR. She has also worked at HM Treasury, the Financial Services Authority and the London School of Economics.
Imogen Waite is a restaurateur and founder of Season + Taste, a Bristol-based company that currently runs three restaurants. The company’s goal is to be a financial success whilst giving customers top quality food and drink, respecting their suppliers and giving back to the community they are a part of. Prior to opening the restaurants, Imogen worked as a chef in Bristol and travelled extensively looking for inspiration and new flavours.
Stian Westlake is Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society. He was previously adviser to three UK science and innovation ministers, an executive director at Nesta, the UK’s national foundation for innovation, a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an official at HM Treasury. He is the author, with Jonathan Haskel, of Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy. Follow him on Twitter @stianwestlake.
Listen to Vicky Pryce talk about Fact and Fiction at the 2019 Festival of Economics
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