Political Economy
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Nigeria is Facing Multiple Crises With Severe Global Effects, From Mass Migration to Terrorism. Here’s Why We Should Worry
The country’s fragile security requires local, regional and global solutions.
- Immigration
- Human Rights
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The Role of Town Planning in Solving the Housing Crisis
Why highly speculative private sector house builders and the lack of public sector delivery have created the housing crisis.
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Review: Russia's World Order. How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West, by Paul Robinson
Twenty years ago, President Putin was a modernising ‘Westerniser’ who saw Russia as essentially European. Nowadays he talks about Russia as a self-contained civilisational world.
- Political Parties
- Populism
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- Equality
- Progressive Politics
- Human Rights
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“The Way Labour Talks About Immigration is a Big Mistake”: Interview with James Hampshire
Anya Pearson interviews James Hampshire, winner of the 2025 Crick Prize, on the political economy of immigration policy since Brexit.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Brexit
- Labour Party
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States and Markets: David Marquand's Contribution to Political Economy
On David Marquand's view that the familiar opposition between markets and states is false.
- Progressive Politics
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Towards a (Minority) Shareholder State? The Labour Government's Fiscal Framework
The fiscal framework launched by Labour in October 2024 represents a contradictory enterprise.
- Trade
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Review: Hayek's Bastards. The Neo-Liberal of the Populist Right, by Quinn Slobodan
Branko Milanovic reviews Quinn Slobodan's most recent book.
- Populism
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Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail
No convincing answer to the simple but devastating question of ‘why do I need to get to Birmingham in 49 minutes?’.
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An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?
A wasteland of nail-bars?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Labour Party
