Institute for Policy Research

Global Political Economy

Our research is concerned with policies at local, national and global levels that will better harness the global political economy to the public good.

Its starting point is the current financial and economic crisis and its social, political and environmental correlates. It recognises that this crisis is deep, widespread and costly—and that this is not just a matter of lost growth and development, but a question of who has lost out and who has gained.

We recognise that the academic world has largely failed to provide a clear diagnosis of the situation, just as it failed to foresee it.  It nevertheless considers it essential to make a new effort at such understanding, drawing insights from social, economic and political science, and developing new tools of analysis where appropriate.

This understanding will need to make sense of the growing and gross inequalities that have emerged, both within and between nations; the global strategies of multinational companies and the value chains which produce their wealth; the new architecture of the world associated with the rise of China; the emergence of new transnational class configurations; and new forms of resistance and mobilisation against these developments.

Publications

Forthcoming

  • Consequences of Aid Volatility for Macroeconomic Management and Aid Effectiveness (Hudson, 2013)
  • Quantitative Easing: a sceptical survey (Martin)
 
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