Colin Hay
Professor of Political Analysis and Director of SPERI
A New Era for SPERI
Colin Hay & Genevieve LeBaron - 4 January 2019In the first blog in a new series, SPERI Directors Colin Hay and Genevieve LeBaron describe SPERI’s evolution since 2012 and set out a new research agenda.
The great uncertainty paradox
Colin Hay - 02 November 2017Uncertainty is the essence of social, political and economic systems. This is the final post on our series on researching uncertainty
Inclusive growth: the challenge of our time
Colin Hay - 21 February 2017A new growth model must be economically and morally sustainable – now, and for future generations
From Brexit reflex to Brexistential crisis
Colin Hay - 28 June 2016How did we get here – and where, exactly, is here?
Repost: Brexistential Crisis – what would Cassandra say?
Colin Hay - 24 June 2016In January Colin Hay, SPERI’s co-director, predicted that Britain would vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Today as that prediction (in the manner of Cassandra) comes to pass we’re reposting Colin’s article which goes on to make two further predictions about the break-up of Britain and a second financial crisis.
The Coming Crisis: the gathering storm
Colin Hay - 30 March 2016In the first of a new series of weekly SPERI blogs on ‘the coming crisis’ Colin Hay sets out the background to the series and outlines the themes it will explore
What would Cassandra say?
Colin Hay - 21 January 2016Prediction in politics and political economy is perilous, but has value in warning of outcomes that could still be avoided by political agency
It’s the political economy, stupid!
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 18 July 2015Labour desperately needs a new and compelling narrative about how it would build a different economy from the Conservatives – and time is already running out
Prospects for Britain’s socially and territorially fractured polity
Colin Hay - 02 June 2015It’s still a ‘good election to lose, but too important not to win’
Election 2015: not a good one to win … but too important to lose
Colin Hay - 04 March 2015In these circumstances there is no good excuse for not voting, and for not voting extremely wisely
Inequality Redux
Colin Hay - 12 February 2015Introduction to a series of weekly SPERI Comments by SPERI staff and students on the theme of inequality.
The asset-based welfare paradox: twist or split?
Colin Hay - 01 July 2014Continuing to rely on asset-price appreciation to provide for our futures is a dangerous gamble
‘Civic Capitalism’: locating the new model within the global context
Tony Payne & Colin Hay - 13 March 2014We need to build up more intensive and sophisticated mechanisms of global governance capable of serving as the guiding intelligence of the whole global economy.
‘Civic Capitalism’: a shared commitment to reduce inequality
Tony Payne & Colin Hay - 27 February 2014We need to recognise that stable and sustainable capitalist development can only be built upon a broader, more equal, social base
‘Civic Capitalism’: bringing in the social dimension
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 13 February 2014We need to develop new social policies that foster the quality of the societies within which citizens live their daily lives under capitalism
‘Civic Capitalism’: sustainable development through investment
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 16 January 2014We need to move from private debt to public investment as the means to stimulate demand and to link deficit reduction to the promotion of growth
‘Civic capitalism’: Towards an alternative currency of global economic success
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 30 January 2014We need to begin to design a new Social, Environmental and Developmental Index to replace GDP
‘Civic capitalism’: the need for sustainability
Tony Payne & Colin Hay - 03 January 2014Since the crisis states have raised the stakes for environmentalists, cracking down on dissent and stifling criticism of the ecological costs of economic growth
‘Civic Capitalism’: regulation as the only antidote to unstable growth
Tony Payne & Colin Hay - 19 December 2013We set out five principles on which to base sound economic governance and add a more practical rule of thumb
‘Civic Capitalism’: restoring democratic economic governance
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 22 November 2013We need to move on from the ideology that led us astray to a more consciously held, open-ended and dynamic ideology that asks not what we can do for the market but what the market can do for us
‘Civic Capitalism’: introducing a new model of capitalism
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 08 November 2013We must start thinking about how to construct something better out of the widely analysed failings of Anglo-liberal capitalism
Too important to leave to the economists: putting the ‘political’ back in political economy
Colin Hay - 10 October 2013The crisis has shown us that we can’t let mainstream economists continue setting the policy agenda
The Great Uncertainty: Thinking through questions of time
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 18 July 2013The global financial crisis, the shift in the global balance of economic power and the environmental threat have unfolded over very different time horizons, but they still come to a head at the same moment
The Great Uncertainty: thinking through environmental threat
Colin Hay & Tony Payne - 11 July 2013That we find ourselves in the environmental ‘red zone’ has profound implications for how we think about growth