The Autonomy Institute
@autonomy-institute.bsky.social
Independent research institute rethinking economies in an age of crisis.
Consultancy: helping firms run and evaluate shorter working week trials.
Consultancy: helping firms run and evaluate shorter working week trials.
NEW clip from our new video essay with @nsrnicek.bsky.social.
Essential viewing for understanding the AI economy.
Full video here:
youtu.be/2vN7vr0qwMo?...
Essential viewing for understanding the AI economy.
Full video here:
youtu.be/2vN7vr0qwMo?...
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
NEW clip from our new video essay with @nsrnicek.bsky.social.
Essential viewing for understanding the AI economy.
Full video here:
youtu.be/2vN7vr0qwMo?...
Essential viewing for understanding the AI economy.
Full video here:
youtu.be/2vN7vr0qwMo?...
event: xenofeminism @ 10 years
tues 7th oct, 18:30 (london)
@reproutopia.bsky.social | @helenhester.bsky.social
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tues 7th oct, 18:30 (london)
@reproutopia.bsky.social | @helenhester.bsky.social
tickets: buff.ly/kHeUXUN
September 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
event: xenofeminism @ 10 years
tues 7th oct, 18:30 (london)
@reproutopia.bsky.social | @helenhester.bsky.social
tickets: buff.ly/kHeUXUN
tues 7th oct, 18:30 (london)
@reproutopia.bsky.social | @helenhester.bsky.social
tickets: buff.ly/kHeUXUN
"The issue with this kind of investment is that we only get the stack above the critical infrastructure"
Our AI and Tech Lead Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan spoke to @novaramedia.com about the problems with detaching public control from newly-announced AI investment 👇
Our AI and Tech Lead Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan spoke to @novaramedia.com about the problems with detaching public control from newly-announced AI investment 👇
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"The issue with this kind of investment is that we only get the stack above the critical infrastructure"
Our AI and Tech Lead Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan spoke to @novaramedia.com about the problems with detaching public control from newly-announced AI investment 👇
Our AI and Tech Lead Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan spoke to @novaramedia.com about the problems with detaching public control from newly-announced AI investment 👇
TODAY – #forum2029 is back with @macrodosepod.bsky.social live: 'the policies and politics we need' 🚨
Weds 17th Sept, 18:30
Oxford House, Bethnal Green
Speakers: James Schneider / Ayeisha Thomas-Smith / John McTernan / Antonia Jennings / Asad Rehman
Tickets: buff.ly/HL0dIzk
Weds 17th Sept, 18:30
Oxford House, Bethnal Green
Speakers: James Schneider / Ayeisha Thomas-Smith / John McTernan / Antonia Jennings / Asad Rehman
Tickets: buff.ly/HL0dIzk
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
TODAY – #forum2029 is back with @macrodosepod.bsky.social live: 'the policies and politics we need' 🚨
Weds 17th Sept, 18:30
Oxford House, Bethnal Green
Speakers: James Schneider / Ayeisha Thomas-Smith / John McTernan / Antonia Jennings / Asad Rehman
Tickets: buff.ly/HL0dIzk
Weds 17th Sept, 18:30
Oxford House, Bethnal Green
Speakers: James Schneider / Ayeisha Thomas-Smith / John McTernan / Antonia Jennings / Asad Rehman
Tickets: buff.ly/HL0dIzk
SPEAKERS: John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) will be joining us in London for our final #forum2029 panel 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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September 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
SPEAKERS: John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) will be joining us in London for our final #forum2029 panel 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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SPEAKERS: James Schneider from @progintl.bsky.social will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
SPEAKERS: James Schneider from @progintl.bsky.social will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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SPEAKERS: Asad Rehman from @friends-earth.bsky.social will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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September 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
SPEAKERS: Asad Rehman from @friends-earth.bsky.social will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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NEW SPEAKER: Antonia Jennings (@antoniajennings.bsky.social) will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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September 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
NEW SPEAKER: Antonia Jennings (@antoniajennings.bsky.social) will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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NEW SPEAKER: Ayeisha Thomas-Smith from @neonuk.bsky.social will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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September 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
NEW SPEAKER: Ayeisha Thomas-Smith from @neonuk.bsky.social will be joining us for our final #forum2029 panel in London 🎉
Weds 17th September – recorded live for @macrodosepod.bsky.social 🎤
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THIS WEEK: Forum 2029 – 'UK policy and the crisis in Global South living standards'
Weds 10th Sept, 18:30 (Online)
Speakers: @devikadutt.bsky.social // @nickdearden.bsky.social // @alexcobham.bsky.social // Jerome Phelps
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Weds 10th Sept, 18:30 (Online)
Speakers: @devikadutt.bsky.social // @nickdearden.bsky.social // @alexcobham.bsky.social // Jerome Phelps
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September 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
THIS WEEK: Forum 2029 – 'UK policy and the crisis in Global South living standards'
Weds 10th Sept, 18:30 (Online)
Speakers: @devikadutt.bsky.social // @nickdearden.bsky.social // @alexcobham.bsky.social // Jerome Phelps
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Weds 10th Sept, 18:30 (Online)
Speakers: @devikadutt.bsky.social // @nickdearden.bsky.social // @alexcobham.bsky.social // Jerome Phelps
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Four-day week appropriate jobs are concentrated in Edinburgh, Glasgow, North and South Lanarkshire, Fife and Aberdeen 🏴
September 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Four-day week appropriate jobs are concentrated in Edinburgh, Glasgow, North and South Lanarkshire, Fife and Aberdeen 🏴
Join Autonomy TOMORROW 🚨
'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
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'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
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September 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Join Autonomy TOMORROW 🚨
'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
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'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
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Four-day week appropriate jobs are concentrated in Edinburgh, Glasgow, North and South Lanarkshire, Fife and Aberdeen 🏴
September 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Four-day week appropriate jobs are concentrated in Edinburgh, Glasgow, North and South Lanarkshire, Fife and Aberdeen 🏴
THIS WEEK 🚨
'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Sign-up: buff.ly/ZjWBJKq
'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Sign-up: buff.ly/ZjWBJKq
September 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
THIS WEEK 🚨
'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Sign-up: buff.ly/ZjWBJKq
'Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system'
📆 Weds 3rd September, 18:30 (Online)
📣 Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Sign-up: buff.ly/ZjWBJKq
🚨SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We're excited to welcome John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) to our in-person #forum2029 @macrodosepod.bsky.social live event on Weds 17th September 🎉
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We're excited to welcome John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) to our in-person #forum2029 @macrodosepod.bsky.social live event on Weds 17th September 🎉
Sign-up here: buff.ly/VvCkUwM
August 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🚨SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We're excited to welcome John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) to our in-person #forum2029 @macrodosepod.bsky.social live event on Weds 17th September 🎉
Sign-up here: buff.ly/VvCkUwM
We're excited to welcome John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) to our in-person #forum2029 @macrodosepod.bsky.social live event on Weds 17th September 🎉
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Our new #UBSHub podcast series exploring 'Public Luxury' has launched ⏳
Here's a taster of an upcoming episode with Hugh Smith from Camden Council talking about their approach to #UBS at the municipal level👇
Listen to the first episode: buff.ly/AWMYSVo
Here's a taster of an upcoming episode with Hugh Smith from Camden Council talking about their approach to #UBS at the municipal level👇
Listen to the first episode: buff.ly/AWMYSVo
August 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our new #UBSHub podcast series exploring 'Public Luxury' has launched ⏳
Here's a taster of an upcoming episode with Hugh Smith from Camden Council talking about their approach to #UBS at the municipal level👇
Listen to the first episode: buff.ly/AWMYSVo
Here's a taster of an upcoming episode with Hugh Smith from Camden Council talking about their approach to #UBS at the municipal level👇
Listen to the first episode: buff.ly/AWMYSVo
🚨 From our #UBS Hub
“Cooperative Public Services in Practice: Lessons from Argentina's Empresa Pública de Alimentos (EPA)”
How a grassroots movement and a network of cooperatives built a self-sustaining food system in Argentina 🇦🇷👇
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“Cooperative Public Services in Practice: Lessons from Argentina's Empresa Pública de Alimentos (EPA)”
How a grassroots movement and a network of cooperatives built a self-sustaining food system in Argentina 🇦🇷👇
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August 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🚨 From our #UBS Hub
“Cooperative Public Services in Practice: Lessons from Argentina's Empresa Pública de Alimentos (EPA)”
How a grassroots movement and a network of cooperatives built a self-sustaining food system in Argentina 🇦🇷👇
buff.ly/Zy17vVq
“Cooperative Public Services in Practice: Lessons from Argentina's Empresa Pública de Alimentos (EPA)”
How a grassroots movement and a network of cooperatives built a self-sustaining food system in Argentina 🇦🇷👇
buff.ly/Zy17vVq
Catch up on the latest from our #UBS Hub: “The Future of Tourism: Holidays as Public Luxury” 🏖️
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Catch up on the latest from our #UBS Hub: “The Future of Tourism: Holidays as Public Luxury” 🏖️
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
By 2050, climate crisis could push nearly 1 million more people in the UK into poverty through soaring food prices 🚨
We set out the impact of climateflation in the recent research from our #UBS Hub👇
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We set out the impact of climateflation in the recent research from our #UBS Hub👇
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August 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
By 2050, climate crisis could push nearly 1 million more people in the UK into poverty through soaring food prices 🚨
We set out the impact of climateflation in the recent research from our #UBS Hub👇
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We set out the impact of climateflation in the recent research from our #UBS Hub👇
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With temperatures rising today, Jack Kellam spoke to Aaron Paul on BBC London about our research into the effects of extreme heat on the UK workforce – and the need for a legal maximum temperature 📈 🌡️
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
With temperatures rising today, Jack Kellam spoke to Aaron Paul on BBC London about our research into the effects of extreme heat on the UK workforce – and the need for a legal maximum temperature 📈 🌡️
New report from our #UBS Hub: “The Future of Tourism: Holidays as Public Luxury” 🏖️
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
August 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
New report from our #UBS Hub: “The Future of Tourism: Holidays as Public Luxury” 🏖️
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
Tourism today is extractive, unequal, and unsustainable. We imagine what it could be instead: a public good, democratically owned and ecologically viable👇
Major hikes in food prices are baked in. What should we do about it?
Quick explainer:
Quick explainer:
July 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Major hikes in food prices are baked in. What should we do about it?
Quick explainer:
Quick explainer:
Lower-income households are hit hardest since:
- They spend more of their income on food
- They can’t easily absorb price shocks
- Children and working-age adults are most vulnerable
- They spend more of their income on food
- They can’t easily absorb price shocks
- Children and working-age adults are most vulnerable
July 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Lower-income households are hit hardest since:
- They spend more of their income on food
- They can’t easily absorb price shocks
- Children and working-age adults are most vulnerable
- They spend more of their income on food
- They can’t easily absorb price shocks
- Children and working-age adults are most vulnerable
Why? The UK imports nearly 50% of its food, much of it from climate-exposed countries. Heatwaves, floods and droughts abroad translates to higher prices here.
July 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Why? The UK imports nearly 50% of its food, much of it from climate-exposed countries. Heatwaves, floods and droughts abroad translates to higher prices here.
Our new modelling shows that by 2050:
- Climate-driven heatwaves could raise UK food prices by 34% 🌡️
- The average household could lose £1,200/year 🍞
- Up to 951,000 more people could be pushed into poverty 📉
- Climate-driven heatwaves could raise UK food prices by 34% 🌡️
- The average household could lose £1,200/year 🍞
- Up to 951,000 more people could be pushed into poverty 📉
July 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Our new modelling shows that by 2050:
- Climate-driven heatwaves could raise UK food prices by 34% 🌡️
- The average household could lose £1,200/year 🍞
- Up to 951,000 more people could be pushed into poverty 📉
- Climate-driven heatwaves could raise UK food prices by 34% 🌡️
- The average household could lose £1,200/year 🍞
- Up to 951,000 more people could be pushed into poverty 📉