Johnna Montgomerie

Reader in International Political Economy, King’s College London

Cancelling toxic household debt: the case for a modern debt jubilee

Johnna Montgomerie -  10 June 2020

Creating fiscal space to write-off household debt will bring macroeconomic renewal and end the era of debt-dependent growth.

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The power relations of debt: care and resistance

Daniela Tepe-Belfrage & Johnna Montgomerie - 18 July 2017

Rethinking debt and how it is ‘cared for’ reveals its gendered, classed and racialised nature

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Rethinking Recovery I: Inequality and insecurity in UK households

Genevieve LeBaron, Johnna Montgomerie & Daniela Tepe-Belfrage - 03 June 2015

This is the first in a series of ten SPERI Comments on the theme of rethinking recovery.  In this introductory post the authors warn that measurements of, and debates about, economic recovery in the UK have tended to overlook deepening inequality along the lines of class, gender, race, ability, age and sexuality.

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‘Troubled Families’ or ‘Troubled Bankers’?

Daniela Tepe-Belfrage & Johnna Montgomerie - 03 December 2014

There is no end to welfare in sight; yet welfare is no longer for the poor

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