H Gordon Brown against P-3s

Harvard Kennedy School - Gordon Brown Advocates Global Approach to Economic Policies in the Malcolm Wiener Lecture

September 24, 2010
by Lindsay Hodges Anderson
Speaking at Harvard Kennedy School Thursday, former UK prime minister Gordon Brown advocated a coordinated worldwide approach to economic policy. In his speech, Brown spoke about the problems caused by the recent recession and offered his two major suggestions to improve international finance: Global coordination of economic policies and a worldwide financial constitution that sets standards across the board.

“These are global problems that can only be dealt with by global coordinated solutions,” he said.

Brown cited a recent International Monetary Fund study that found a global coordinated policy across major economic players could create 30 million more jobs, pull up to 100 million people out of poverty and potentially create three trillion dollars of additional worldwide economic activity."

I remember when listening to the video cast- that he remained true to his Labour roots- and explained very clearly the reason to oppose P3's-;because the market in involved- out to make money...