Inaugural Conference
The British Growth Crisis: The Search for a New Model
Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield,
16–18 July 2012
Our inaugural conference was a huge success, and we enjoyed every minute of it! We would like to to thank all who came and contributed to the event, you can read more about the event and watch videos of some of the plenary sessions on our website. You can also view the programme by clicking the links below, and read the full papers by some of the contributing speakers.
Programme
Download the full SPERI Inaugural Conference prospectus (PDF 150 KB)
Download the programme of parallel-running panels: speakers & list of papers (PDF 353KB)
Full Papers and Abstracts
Click on the name of the paper giver(s) to read the abstract, and the title of the paper to read the paper in full.
All documents are in PDF format and can be easily downloaded and printed.
| Name/Abstract |
Full Paper(s) |
| Anastasia Nesvetailova (51KB) |
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| Andrew Baker (39KB) |
Varieties of Financial Crisis, Varieties of Ideational Change: How and Why financial regulation and macroeconomic policy differ (356KB) |
| Andrew Bowman, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, John Law, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran & Karel Williams (156KB) |
Central Bank Led Capitalism? (770KB) |
| Andrew Hindmoor (139KB) |
Boring but Safe: An Institutional Analysis of Why the Big Australian Banks Survived the Global Financial Meltdown (326KB)Taming the City: Structural Power & the Evolution of British Banking Policy Amidst the Great Financial Meltdown (368KB) |
| Ben Clift (6KB) |
The UK Macroeconomic Policy Debate and the British Growth Crisis: Debt and the deficit discourse in the Great Recession (371 KB) |
| Bob Jessop (6KB) |
Recovered Imaginaries, Imagines Recoveries: A cultural political economy of crisis construals & crisis-management in the North Atlantic financial crisis (549KB) |
| Chris Rogers (47KB) |
Localism as a Crisis Response (194KB) |
| Dan Corry |
UK Economic Performance under Labour 1997-2010 (1.35MB) |
| Daniela Tepe (94KB) |
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| Danny Mackinnon, David Featherstone, Andrew Cumbers & Kendra Strauss (42KB) |
Rethinking Local-Central Relations: Progressive localism, decentralisation and place (245KB) |
| David Coates |
Shadows of the Past in the Making of the Future: Models of Capitalism & British Imperialism (176KB) |
| David Lewis-Baker & Joel Wolfe (205KB) |
UK Neoliberalism in Crisis – State & Polity Vs Global Market Power in the UK (500KB) |
| Frank Pyke (192 KB) |
Towards a New Growth Strategy: Promoting Decent Work (108KB) |
| Gabriel Siles-Brugge (60KB) |
Explaining the Resilience of Free Trade: The ‘Smoot-Hawley’ Myth and the Crisis (422 KB) |
| Gareth Dale (79KB) |
The Growth Paradigm: A critique (509KB) |
| Gerry Stoker (118KB) |
Economic Recovery and the Politics of the Long-Term (430KB) |
| Graham Gudgin & Ken Coutts (173KB) |
Is the UK Bound to Follow Free Market Economic Policies? (878KB) |
| Grahame Thompson (50KB) |
From Artisan to Partisan: What Would it Mean to be an Artisan of Finance (123MB) |
| Ian Gough (215KB) |
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| Jane Green & Will Jennings (74KB) |
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| Jason Heyes & Paul Lewis (193KB) |
Employment Protection Under Fire: Why labour market deregulation will not deliver quality jobs |
| Jeremy Green (194KB) |
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| Joel Krieger (36KB) |
The Lessons for Britain From the East Asian Economic Crisis (398KB) |
| John Singleton & James Reveley (197KB) |
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| Johnna Montgomerie (173KB) |
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| Jonathan Perraton (38KB) |
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| Kate Alexander (69KB) |
From Prudence to Austerity: Theorising validity in British economic rhetoric (434KB) |
| Magnus Ryner (91KB) |
The (I)PE of Falling Wage-Shares: Situating Working Class Agency (628KB) |
| Mary Murphy (189KB) |
Irish Development in Crisis (484KB) |
| Matthew L. Bishop (248KB) |
Weathering the Crisis in ‘Little England’: Barbados and the search for a new growth model (154KB) |
| Michael Goyer, Bob Hancke and Marco Simoni (220KB) |
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| Paulina Ramirez & Andrew Tylecote (39KB) |
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| Peter Taylor-Gooby (172KB) |
Public Policy Futures a Left Trilemma (317KB) |
| Richard Murphy (58KB) |
The Courageous State as the foundation of growth (249KB) |
| Ronen Palan (47KB) |
Financial Crisis and Intangible Value (381KB) |
| Shu Shimizu (68KB) |
Discourse Analysis of the Media Evaluation of the Northern Rock Crisis Management (302KB) |
| Simon Lee & Richard Woodward (79KB) |
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| Terrence Casey (87KB) |
Is Financialization the Achilles’ Heel of Anglo-American Caplitalism? (754KB) |
| Tim Vorley & Nick Williams (48KB) |
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| Tom Barker & Umberto Marengo |
Attitudes towards UK government economic policy and the future of the UK economy (610KB) |
| Vivien Lowndes & Kerry McCaughie (206KB) |
Cuts, Costs & Creativity: Prospects for iinstitutional design under conditions of austerity |
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