The Framing of Solidarity in the Euro Crisis
It seems that the Euro crisis is over. Greece left the bailout program in Summer 2018 and Ireland and Portugal have generated economic growth (for different reasons). Studies on the […]
The onshore urban impact of offshore property investors
Wealth, inequality, tax invasion – all are at the forefront of public concern about where many societies are going, and […]
Global governance and multilateralism in an age of anti-globalists
On Friday, 5 April, the World Bank’s executive directors confirmed David Malpass as its new president. This honoured the convention […]
Regionally Adjusted Domestic Product – A New Statistic for Seeing the Shape of the Economy
This essay by Ed Pemberton, Doctoral Researcher at SPERI was named runner-up in the 2018/19 Bennett Prospect Public Policy Prize
Compromise seems to be the hardest word
What happens when no-one will compromise on Brexit? Michael Jacobs explores why the perculiar circumstances of Brexit have provided utter stalemate.
Review of ‘Commodity: The Global Commodity System in the 21st Century’
Classical political economy begins from the premise that capitalism must be understood as an integrated social, political and economic order. […]
The political economies of different globalisations – Part 4: ‘Reglobalisation’
Part 3 of the blog is available to read here Where, then, do we go from here? We’ve seen that […]
New buzzword, same problem: how ‘worker voice’ initiatives are perpetuating the shortcomings of traditional social auditing
Simply integrating “worker voice” into the equation cannot reverse the shortcomings of social auditing programs, argue Penelope Kyritsis, Genevieve LeBaron and Mark Anner
The political economies of different globalisations – Part 3: ‘Deglobalisation from the left’
Although many on the centre-left in the West have effectively found themselves defending a neoliberal form of globalisation about which […]
Territorial peace in Colombia: A transformative concept?
Colombia’s peace process, including the negotiations carried out by the Colombian government under President Santos and the FARC guerrilla movement […]