‘Net Zero’ and the innovation-policy nexus
The adoption of stringent targets to combat climate change can speed up the process of innovation and reduce costs associated with emissions reductions
Neoliberalism’s ‘unfailures’
Economic policies enacted under neoliberalism have often failed to meet their objectives. How have they remained unchallenged in the face of failure?
The framing of solidarity in the Euro crisis
Solidarity can be used as a discursive tool to promote the agendas of different actors and interests within the context of the Euro crisis.
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 how cities are being reshaped today.
Global governance and multilateralism in an age of anti-globalists
The battle between nationalists and globalists may have opened up a new front – inside the headquarters of international organisations.
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’
Photis Lysandrou’s brilliant new book explores the heavily financialised regime of capitalism in the twenty-first century.
The political economies of different globalisations – Part 4: ‘Reglobalisation’
A new mode of globalisation, grounded in the notion of ‘re-embedded post-neoliberalism’, can be charted and built if states are prepared to do so.
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