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Lecturer in Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
Has Keir Starmer healed Britain's 'fractured union'?
Scott Lavery - 30 September 2024Has Keir Starmer healed Britain's 'fractured union'?
Review - Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK by Michael Kenny.
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 2019Theorising global value chains in a changing global order
Global 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 2019Review of ‘Commodity: The Global Commodity System in the 21st Century’
Photis 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 2018The Political Economy of Brexit and the Future of British Capitalism
Two 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 2018Frankfurt and Paris as financial centres after Brexit
The 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 2018Book Review: Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and its Resolution
David 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 2018Globalising cities and their de-globalising hinterlands: Book review
Global 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 2018Will Frankfurt become Europe’s leading financial centre after Brexit?
Frankfurt 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 2017Capitalising on Brexit? Charting the next phase of European Capital Markets Union
Although 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 2017Review: The End of British Politics? by Mick Moran
This 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 2016The Coming Crisis: enduring imbalances in the Eurozone
In 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 2015Child poverty and the unravelling of New Labour’s ‘hybrid’ political economy
Cameron 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 2015QE, labour market restructuring and the ‘regressive recovery’
Cameron’s continuing ‘two nations’ governing strategy prepares the way for a further economic crisis
Inequality Redux
Scott Lavery - 19 February 2015Inequality Redux
Wage decline, welfare retrenchment and the politics of austerity in Britain
‘Tartan neoliberalism’ isn’t driving the campaign for Scottish independence
Scott Lavery - 11 September 2014‘Tartan neoliberalism’ isn’t driving the campaign for Scottish independence
There is instead the prospect of a re-awakened social democracy
Counting the cost of the regressive recovery
Jeremy Green & Scott Lavery - 22 April 2014Counting the cost of the regressive recovery
The 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 2014Britain’s trade deficit persists in spite of sterling devaluation
Sterling’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 2014Income inequality and the downward wage push
The 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 2013Precarious employment & the ‘recovery through regressive redistribution’
Proliferation of zero hours contracts is further entrenching Britain’s dysfunctional economic model
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