Scott Lavery
Scott Lavery - 19 October 2021
This blog summarises Dr Scott Lavery’s presentation at the first 2021-22 meeting of the SPERI Doctoral Researchers Network, on ‘The Political Economy of COVID-19’.
Theorising global value chains in a changing global order
Scott Lavery - 14 November 2019Global value chain analysis is a key approach to studying the changing character of global production, but is limited in its firm-centricity and neglects the wider structural context within which industrial development takes place. This is part 7 in the series 'Industrial development in a post-crash world'.
Review of ‘Commodity: The Global Commodity System in the 21st Century’
Scott Lavery - 05 April 2019Photis Lysandrou’s brilliant new book deploys the Hegelian-Marxist method of abstraction in order to understand the heavily financialised regime of capitalism in the twenty-first century.
The Political Economy of Brexit and the Future of British Capitalism
Scott Lavery, Lucia Quaglia & Charlie Dannreuther - 02 July 2018Two symposia in New Political Economy bring together academic experts to examine the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in key economic policy areas
Frankfurt and Paris as financial centres after Brexit
Scott Lavery - 26 June 2018The City of London is likely to remain as Europe’s pre-eminent financial centre after the UK leaves the EU, but new research shows how Frankfurt and Paris seek to ‘capitalise’ on the fall-out from Brexit
Book Review: Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and its Resolution
Scott Lavery - 23 May 2018David Coates’ critique of Anglo-American capitalism is devastating; his optimism about transforming it is welcome. The left must now develop a political strategy capable of overcoming structural barriers to reform
Globalising cities and their de-globalising hinterlands: Book review
Scott Lavery - 02 March 2018Global cities at the ‘core’ of the national economy generate deep and de-stabilising patterns of under-development in the ‘periphery'
Will Frankfurt become Europe’s leading financial centre after Brexit?
Scott Lavery & Davide Schmid - 16 January 2018Frankfurt views its ‘stability’ as a key advantage in the battle for jobs and investment with other European financial centres after Brexit
Capitalising on Brexit? Charting the next phase of European Capital Markets Union
Scott Lavery - 25 October 2017Although the UK embraced Capital Markets Union (CMU) in its early stages, it also strongly resisted attempts to enhance EU-level supervisory powers. Brexit could now see the CMU agenda develop further – but not in the way the UK had initially anticipated
Review: The End of British Politics? by Mick Moran
Scott Lavery - 15 May 2017This timely new book expertly charts the endurance of the British state and how elites have sought to ‘repurpose’ it. Whether this can be achieved again after Brexit is highly uncertain
The Coming Crisis: enduring imbalances in the Eurozone
Scott Lavery - 13 April 2016In the third blog in SPERI’s new series on ‘the coming crisis’ Scott Lavery examines three areas of imbalance in the Eurozone and argues that the single currency area remains vulnerable to a future economic downturn
Child poverty and the unravelling of New Labour’s ‘hybrid’ political economy
Scott Lavery - 12 August 2015Cameron claims to lead a ‘One Nation’ government, but pursues a ‘two nations’ governing strategy
QE, labour market restructuring and the ‘regressive recovery’
Jeremy Green & Scott Lavery - 09 June 2015Cameron’s continuing ‘two nations’ governing strategy prepares the way for a further economic crisis
Inequality Redux
Scott Lavery - 19 February 2015Wage decline, welfare retrenchment and the politics of austerity in Britain
‘Tartan neoliberalism’ isn’t driving the campaign for Scottish independence
Scott Lavery - 11 September 2014There is instead the prospect of a re-awakened social democracy
Counting the cost of the regressive recovery
Jeremy Green & Scott Lavery - 22 April 2014The Coalition’s recovery has intensified deeply damaging distributional trends within Britain
Britain’s trade deficit persists in spite of sterling devaluation
Craig Berry & Scott Lavery - 18 February 2014Sterling’s falling value has not been exploited, exposing the coalition’s failure to rebalance the economy
Income inequality and the downward wage push
Scott Lavery - 04 February 2014The most dangerous ‘imbalance’ at the heart of the UK economy is the disproportionate bargaining power that firms have over labour
Precarious employment & the ‘recovery through regressive redistribution’
Scott Lavery - 17 October 2013Proliferation of zero hours contracts is further entrenching Britain’s dysfunctional economic model