The Brandt Line is a way of visualising the world that highlights the disparities and
inequalities between the wealthy North and the poorer Global South. Forty years after its …

This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political
economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical …

During the recent economic crisis, Keynesian ideas about fiscal stimulus briefly seemed to
form the basis of a new expert consensus about how to deal with demand shocks. However …

The minimalist, atomistic classical liberal definition of markets is dominant in the global
political economy literature, if often implicitly so. But major shifts are occurring in the 21st …

This article is about two distinct frameworks that evaluate why finance matters in
contemporary capitalism. The International Political Economy (IPE) literature on global …

Over the past century, the rise and fall of economic policy orders has been shaped by a
paradox, as intellectual and institutional stability have repeatedly caused market instability …

In recent decades, governments in many Western democracies have shown a remarkable
consensus in pursuing fiscal austerity measures during periods of strained public finances …

There is little systematic work on how much the core of mainstream macroeconomics has
changed since the crisis of 2008 and even less on what explains patterns of stability and …

During the period from 1945 to 2005, Britain underwent two deep-seated institutional
transformations when political elites successfully challenged the prevailing wisdom on how …

Contemporary analyses commonly attribute the global credit crisis to faulty regulation. What
have been the roots of these deficient rules, particularly in Europe, where rapid spill-over …