Adam Leaver
Professor in Accounting and Society, co-director of SPERI
If this is capitalism, where are the price signals?: The glacial effects of passive investment
Jan Fichtner. Eelke Heemskerk & Adam Leaver - 3 September 2018In the 10 years since the 2008 crash, the ‘passive-aggressive’ tendencies of large index funds have reshaped how modern capitalism operates
Intangible concerns: Goodwill and the risk of pro-cyclicality in corporate America
Adam Leaver - 20 June 2018Much has been written about the growth of debt since the Great Financial Crisis. But whilst leverage is a worry, much less has been written about the problem of asset quality
Outsourcing firms and the paradox of time travel
Adam Leaver - 12 February 2018Analysis of Carillion’s accounts reveals the complex interplay between the firm’s present and future, and sheds new light on which other large outsourcing firms are ‘levered on the future’
Out of time: The fragile temporality of Carillion’s accumulation model
Adam Leaver - 17 January 2018Carillion is the epitome of the modern financialized firm and its liquidation tells us much about risk in this phase of financialization
Disgorging the social settlement: What the Paradise Papers tell us about firms
Adam Leaver - 10 November 2017The Paradise Papers reveal how debt and other financial mechanisms are used to move funds offshore and avoid tax. New constraints on firms and managers are needed
The problem with treating a financial network like a financial market
Adam Leaver & Daniel Tischer - 23 August 2017Ten years after the financial crisis, the risks associated with securitisation are yet to be fully appreciated
Tactics without strategy: Brexit and the politics of conceit
Adam Leaver - 27 June 2016The political and economic forces unleashed by the referendum result now pose profound challenges for Leave politicians and the Labour Party
Organising metaphors and austerity: what the left can learn
Adam Leaver - 09 February 2016Progressives need to think differently about political narrative to shape the political agenda to their advantage