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UK regions, the European Union and manufacturing exports
New analysis of the trade in goods between the UK’s regions and the EU sheds new light on the potential regional implications of Brexit Craig Berry, Deputy Director at SPERI It is too simplistic to...
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Authoritarian but Flexible: Turkey and recent labour market reforms
The AKP’s reforms to ‘flexibilise’ the labour market will weaken workers’ rights and further consolidate authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey Mehmet Erman Erol, Department of Politics, University of...
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From socialising capital to socialising capitalism
Stewart Lansley’s advocacy of the sharing economy is the right idea at the right time, but social wealth funds would be a problematic instrument Craig Berry, Deputy Director at SPERI Stewart Lansley’s...
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Mortgage debt and wages: A comparison of Britain and Denmark
Different approaches to mortgage debt may impact wages, how homeowners engage with employers and welfare services, and economic growth James Wood, Doctoral Researcher, Department of European and...
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Rethinking Recovery: Poverty chains and global capitalism
Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labour force Benjamin Selwyn, Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy,...
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Rethinking Recovery: Labour market exploitation and austerity in the UK
Stopping labour exploitation requires effective regulation of the labour market, not scapegoating migrant and vulnerable workers Judy Fudge, Kent Law School Explaining the Conservative government’s...
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Austerity has transformed the meaning and morality of work in the UK
Measuring economic success through levels of employment obscures the unsustainable and oppressive nature of the UK’s recovery Craig Berry, Deputy Director at SPERI Work has of course always been...
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When work doesn’t work
The left’s focus on full employment fails to address the realities of work and family in the twenty-first century Sophie Moullin, Doctoral Researcher, Princeton University ‘The clue is in the name’, Ed...
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Mainstream economics and the crisis of imagination: Part I
In times of crisis the predictions of mainstream economics persistently fail; alternative approaches to economics are required Jamie Morgan, Department of Economics, Analytics and International...
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‘Eating power’ and the oligopolisation of the Haitian food economy
As one of the world’s poorest countries, the inequities in Haiti’s local food economy are deeply rooted in its troubled history and its elite-dominated political economy Merisa Thompson, Institute for...
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