Political Economy
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Children of Littlechild: Ten Steps to Public Ownership
The functional case for public ownership and investment.
- Progressive Politics
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"American democracy is in some trouble": Interview with Helen Thompson
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Helen Thompson, an expert on geopolitics and political economy, on global disorder and Trump's re-election.
- Elections & Campaigning
- USA
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Responding to Michael Jacobs' Lecture 'After Neoliberalism'
For more than a decade, western societies have struggled to respond to declining prosperity, accelerating climate change and rising inequalities. A 'paradigm shift' in economic theory and public policy seems overdue. But if neoliberalism is dead, what should replace it? Michael Jacobs gave the Political Quarterly annual lecture 'After Neoliberalism: Economic Theory and Policy in the Polycrisis' in November 2023. In this collection, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Abby Innes and Gavin Kelly respond to his assessment of the 'polycrisis' and how governments should approach policy making in this new age.
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Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
Rachel Reeves's March 2024 Mais lecture was an exercise in tempering hope that Britain's threadbare public services would soon be restored to health.
- Labour Party
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On Institutions and Economic Policy: A Response to Michael Jacobs
The terrain on which politics is likely to be contested will involve a larger role for the state and continued debate about the appropriate role of institutions.
- Progressive Politics
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Fostering Coordination to Bridge the UK's Regional Disparities: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
Different policy approaches to achieving one of the key goals that Rachel Reeves set out in her Mais lecture in 2024.
- Labour Party
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The Puzzling Persistence of the Hostile Environment
Why have hostile environment policies proven so durable despite their indiscernible effect on meeting immigration control targets and their generation of a significant scandal?
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Immigration
- Racism & Antisemitism
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‘Full-Fat, Semi-Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit
Examining the political economy of immigration policy.
- Immigration
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Repairing the United Kingdom’s Asylum System
Everyone can agree that the asylum system is broken. There is somewhat less consensus on how to repair it.
- Immigration
- Racism & Antisemitism
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After Neoliberalism: Economic Theory and Policy in the Polycrisis
If we aren't living in a crisis of western capitalism, we are surely living in a crisis in the promise held out by it.
- Trade
- Populism
- Progressive Politics
