Plotting against the NHS
A closely interconnected health policy community in Britain has grabbed control of the agenda and seeks to make further marketisation of healthcare the only possible option Professor Tony Payne,...
View ArticleThe Coming Crisis: why global governance doesn’t really work
Serious problems undermine the current regime and create a significant ‘global governance deficit’ Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Nobody can say that the major institutions of global...
View Article‘Who dun Brexit’: ‘globalisation’ or global neoliberalism?
These two phenomena need to be distinguished in order to expose some of the conceptual camouflage being thrown up about the cause of Brexit Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI We are now already a...
View ArticleThe politics of reforming capitalism in Britain: Part I
The Labour approach being shaped by Corbyn and McDonnell has yet to find a politics that will work and will not do so if it comes to be seen as fundamentally anti-capitalist Professor Tony Payne,...
View ArticleThe politics of reforming capitalism in Britain: Part II
Two competing and ultimately incompatible visions exist on the right and now sit in tension at the heart of Theresa May’s government Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI As I noted last week, there...
View Article‘De-globalisation’, or ‘re-globalisation’?
The former is the new project of the populist right; the latter needs to be the new vision of the centre-left Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Globalisation is under attack these days from all...
View ArticleRemaking the case for a ‘developmental state’ in Britain
Britain urgently needs a new national development strategy after the Brexit vote and must find the will to embrace a radically different model of the state Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI...
View ArticleThe strange still-birth of ‘Milimayism’
Britain just can’t generate the politics with which to build the new reformist consensus its political economy so badly needs Professor Tony Payne, Professorial Fellow, SPERI A key problem for Britain...
View ArticleDon’t depoliticise inclusive growth!
The endeavour to set out and implement a new vision for more inclusive growth will fail if it is not treated fundamentally as a matter of political economy, rather than an aspect of social policy...
View ArticleUnderstanding the IMF better
The Fund does make normatively driven interventions in ideologically charged economic policy debates, but not always from the perspective imagined and often with only limited impact Professor Tony...
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