Recovery to Discovery

Andrew McGettigan Speaking at #RethinkRecovery

Recovery to Discovery

Q&A with Steve Keen, Mick Moran and Mathew Lawrence at #RethinkRecovery

Recovery to Discovery

Mick Moran speaking at #RethinkRecovery

Debt Community Network

PFI, the Banks, and the People Uncovering the Biggest Threat to the NHS

Debt Community Network

The UK’s everyday debt economy

A brief summary: Over a period of six months we investigated non-state and non-market sites of debt resilience in the UK and, in doing so, observed the new everyday political economy of indebtedness. We found that civil society organisations seek to fill the policy void created by government inaction by generating meaningful data on household […]

Debt Community Network

#debtCN – creating a network through sharing content

My Political Economy

#mypoliticaleconomy – A hashtag experiment for teachers of political economy

PERC Papers

PERC Paper 6 – The Treasury View of Higher Education by Andrew McGettigan

Today we publish a new PERC Paper, ‘The Treasury View of HE: Variable Human Capital Investment’, by Andrew McGettigan. In this paper, McGettigan, author of The Great University Gamble, explores the economic and financial logic through which the UK Treasury has justified transformations in the funding and financing of higher education in the UK. Download […]

PERCblog

Happiness beyond the ‘happiness industry’ – discussion & book launch, 24th June

Happiness today has become an object of measurement, management, optimisation and detection via the body. It is something that concerns medics, economists and marketers, to be expertly visualised and mapped. While this agenda is not new, it is experiencing a major technologically-driven acceleration right now, diverting political and ethical hopes into an expanding infrastructure of […]

Debt Community Network

Digital Technologies of Debt Resilience

Recovery to Discovery

The Politics of Indebtedness in the UK – A Public Interest Report

Debt Community Network

Payday lenders: why aren’t consumers shopping around for their loans?

At the beginning of the year there was a major victory for consumer advocates who wanted to see increased regulation over the payday loans industry, including the implementation of a price cap to stop lenders ripping off hard-up consumers. We might have known that that wouldn’t be the last we heard of the industry. We […]