Category Archives: Research

5th October 2018 This report from the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change explored the causes of the air quality health problem in the UK and provided a comprehensive strategy for overcoming it.

7th September 2018 Digital technology is delivering a huge range of benefits to businesses, citizens and wider society. Platforms – online applications that intermediate between the provider of a service and its users – have unlocked many of these benefits by sorting and connecting an enormous range of services and products, both online and off.Continue reading “The Digital Commonwealth: From private enclosure to collective benefit (IPPR)”

5th September 2018 Established in autumn 2016 in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the aim of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice was to examine the challenges facing the UK economy and to recommend proposals for reform. Commissioners come from across the economy and society and from different political viewpoints,Continue reading “Prosperity and justice: A plan for the new economy – IPPR Commission on Economic Justice final report”

3rd July 2018 This paper, co-authored with Michael Jacobs, seeks to understand the processes of paradigm shifts in economic ideas and policy. We begin with an explanation of the concept of a “politico-economic paradigm”, with reference to the theory and history of the two paradigm shifts occurring in the 20th century. We then examine howContinue reading “Paradigm Shifts in Economic Theory and Policy (Intereconomics)”

5th June 2018 This UK Health Alliance on Climate Change paper provides a guide to the air pollution problem in the UK, its health effects, and the actions needed to tackle it.

1st June 2018 This article, co-authored with Dr Jenny Isherwood and published in the Future Healthcare Journal, explores the interdependence between healthcare and sustainability: https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/futurehosp/5/2/84.2

5th April 2018 This briefing paper summarises the results of a major study into the improvements to UK air quality from meeting the Climate Change Act commitments. These results quantify the significant opportunities that exist for improving public health through the co-ordination of policies to mitigate climate change and address air pollution simultaneously. In summarising,Continue reading “The Air Pollution and Health Benefits of the UK Climate Change Act (UK Health Alliance on Climate Change)”

7th December 2017 The North’s economy is more carbon intensive than the English average, and its many carbon-intensive industries face a challenging transition. However, the North has a large economic potential, more of which could be unlocked from directed investment. This IPPR report sets out a regional green industrial strategy for delivering a decarbonised northContinue reading “Net-Zero North: Delivering the decarbonisation mission in the north of England (IPPR)”

October 2017 Neoliberalism – the set of socioeconomic ideas and policies which have dominated public life over the last 40 years – has failed.  Despite the evidence that neither its analyses nor its prescriptions have worked, neoliberalism remains the dominant perspective of most socioeconomic commentary and policy-making in the UK. It needs to be replacedContinue reading “Moving beyond neoliberalism (Friends Provident Foundation)”

1st September 2017 This article, written with Alfie Stirling, seeks to place the UK’s present economic ‘moment’ in historical context. Over the course of the decade since the 2007 financial crisis, it has increasingly been acknowledged that a cyclical crisis has become a structural crisis. The failure of most economists to predict the financial crashContinue reading “Time for a New Paradigm? Past and Present Transitions in Economic Policy (Political Quarterly)”