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Cameron’s three Ts agenda and the G8
The summit was also noticeable for what it did not prioritise Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Tony Payne In the end, the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland was dominated by Syria, and...
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Does Britain need to be pursuing a development strategy?
Very few academics, journalists and politicians ever treat Britain’s economic problems as matters of failed or flawed development. Perhaps they should? Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Tony...
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Global Races
It’s right to focus attention on Britain’s position in the global political economy, but we need a more sophisticated way of thinking about this issue than the notion of a race Professor Tony Payne,...
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Exploring North-South issues in the political economy of England
The HS2 rail project is underpinned by a flawed political economy that needs challenging Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Over the years I’ve written a lot about North-South issues in the global...
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The end of the G8
Russia’s expulsion from the G8 concludes a transitional phase in the governance of the global political economy Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Tomorrow the leaders of the G8 group of countries...
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Piketty at last!
This is a remarkable book, but not necessarily all that it has been proclaimed to be Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI I came very late to Piketty’s party. Contrary to received opinion outside...
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Is neoliberalism at last unravelling in Britain?
The crisis of the British political economy has now become an urgent crisis also for British politics Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI I just don’t understand why mainstream political...
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The changing political economy of oil
The recent big fall in price creates some space for new thinking, but also poses questions to which we don’t have answers Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI The price of oil has been falling....
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Turkish delight
The Presidency of the G20 has now passed to Turkey, but the global political economy looks like remaining dangerously under-governed Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Did you know that, on 1...
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Inequality Redux: Conclusion
Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI This post concludes the series of posts written over the past couple of months by SPERI staff on the different dimensions of inequality that can be identified in...
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What next for Labour’s ABC tendency
The party desperately needs to go back and come fully to terms with what went right and what went wrong during the Blair/Brown era Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI Many words have been spilled...
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What is meant by the centre in political analysis?
There are good grounds for thinking that the concept rests at heart on an acceptance of what Weber called ‘an ethic of responsibility’ Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI All the talk at the moment...
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Facing up to the impending UK referendum on the European Union
The best way to counter the threat constituted by the referendum is to show that the EU can be remade to work better in the democratic service of its citizens Professor Tony Payne, Director of SPERI At...
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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,...
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The 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...
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‘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...
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The 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,...
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The 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...
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‘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...
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Remaking 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...
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