Ben Clift
Honorary Research Fellow, SPERI, & Professor of International Political Economy, University of Warwick
Rethinking the role of the IMF
Ben Clift - 29 October 2019Rethinking the role of the IMF
The Fund’s new prescriptive discourse on the need to tackle inequality is being challenged and undermined by its own continuing economistic conventions. This is part 3 of the series 'Reglobalisation in action'.
The collapse of France’s Socialist Party amidst the Macron surge
Ben Clift & Sean McDaniel - 26 July 2017The collapse of France’s Socialist Party amidst the Macron surge
With Macron dominant and the left divided, the future of a devastated Socialist Party is extremely unclear
Brexit, May & Trump: the dangerous illusion of ‘taking back control’
Ben Clift - 30 November 2016Brexit, May & Trump: the dangerous illusion of ‘taking back control’
Economic patriotism is an analytical frame which can help explain the failings of a xenophobic populism which fails to acknowledge the complex realities of our economic interdependence –and risks exacerbating further political disaffection.