The Chinese Economy
Stephen L. Morgan
China’s transformation over the past four decades has been unprecedented. The vision of its leaders for the next three decades is unprecedented too, as China seeks to fashion an advanced economy without [...]Read More
Economic Anthropology
James G. Carrier
Conventional economic thought sees the economy as the sum of market transactions carried out by rational individuals deciding how to allocate their resources among the various things on offer that would [...]Read More
A Modern Migration Theory
Peo Hansen
Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive [...]Read More
The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK
Craig Berry, Julie Froud, Tom Barker
Does the UK still have an industrial strategy? How should we understand the renewed interest within government in industrial policy – and now its apparent reversal – in recent years? This collection [...]Read More
Political Football
Wyn Grant
Football has been largely exempt from the development of the regulatory state and has been left to govern itself. However, new media have raised the profile of the game and globalization has created [...]Read More
The Return of the State
Patrick Allen, Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Jan Toporowski
Pushed by the Covid-19 crisis, the UK government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had championed for [...]Read More
The Return of the State *book launch*
To mark publication of The Return of the State, Ed Miliband, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Martin Sandbu and leading economic commentators discuss economic policy for recovery, 19 May, 1100–12.30 BST. Registration is open to all.
Financial Times best books of 2020
Edward Luce, the FT's US national editor, chooses Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth's Angrynomics as his book of the year.
5th Annual Ailsa McKay Memorial Lecture
James Heintz, author of The Economy's Other Half, will be giving the 5th Annual Ailsa McKay Memorial Lecture at the Wise Centre for Economic Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University on 20 May at 4pm. Registration open to all.
The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK *online event*
WISERD and Future Economies are hosting a panel discussion to mark the publication of The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK on 19 May, 11.00–12.30. Registration open to all.
Download a copy of our 2021 Catalogue
Our 2021 catalogue showcases new titles for the coming year and key backlist.
Post-Budget reading Austerity
Boris Johnson has said that the UK government "has absolutely no intention of returning to the A word" but with the Covid-19 crisis set to take government debt levels to new heights, is a return to austerity measures inevitable?
