Professor of Political Analysis and Director of SPERI
In 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.
Uncertainty is the essence of social, political and economic systems. This is the final post on our series on researching uncertainty
A new growth model must be economically and morally sustainable – now, and for future generations
How did we get here – and where, exactly, is here?
In 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.
In 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
Prediction in politics and political economy is perilous, but has value in warning of outcomes that could still be avoided by political agency
Labour desperately needs a new and compelling narrative about how it would build a different economy from the Conservatives – and time is already running out
It’s still a ‘good election to lose, but too important not to win’
In these circumstances there is no good excuse for not voting, and for not voting extremely wisely
Introduction to a series of weekly SPERI Comments by SPERI staff and students on the theme of inequality.
Continuing to rely on asset-price appreciation to provide for our futures is a dangerous gamble
We need to build up more intensive and sophisticated mechanisms of global governance capable of serving as the guiding intelligence of the whole global economy.
We need to recognise that stable and sustainable capitalist development can only be built upon a broader, more equal, social base
We need to develop new social policies that foster the quality of the societies within which citizens live their daily lives under capitalism
We 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
We need to begin to design a new Social, Environmental and Developmental Index to replace GDP
Since the crisis states have raised the stakes for environmentalists, cracking down on dissent and stifling criticism of the ecological costs of economic growth
We set out five principles on which to base sound economic governance and add a more practical rule of thumb
We 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
We must start thinking about how to construct something better out of the widely analysed failings of Anglo-liberal capitalism
The crisis has shown us that we can’t let mainstream economists continue setting the policy agenda
The 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
That we find ourselves in the environmental ‘red zone’ has profound implications for how we think about growth