Political Economy
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The Political Economy of Tourism
Tourism is one of the fastest growing internationally traded service sectors. Although it has brought prosperity to struggling regions and improved the financial prospects of countries facing economic difficulties, tourism comes with important challenges. It tends to grow so fast that it generates social problems. Its fast pace of growth also undermines its own future sustainability, as overcrowded destinations eventually lose their appeal. Moreover, tourism sometimes fails to generate broad-based benefits for local communities. This collection explores the relation between tourism, economic development, and long-term socioeconomic and environmental sustainability in a variety of locations.
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Climate Change and (Mal)Adaptation in Tourism-Intensive Alpine Regions
Why relying on tourism-led growth alone may produce unintended consequences as climate change accelerates.
- Environment & Climate Change
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From Our Archive: The American Right and Iran
From an article originally published in 2008 exploring what America intended to do about Iran.
- USA
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Before the Boil: Addressing the UK's Living Standards Crisis
Rather than being the desired outcome of an economic strategy, raising living standards directly is the crucial missing input.
- Equality
- Labour Party
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How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
- Immigration
- Populism
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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 Professor 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
