13/11/2024
Prof Will Davies writes for London Review of Books about the recent budget and Labour's economic vision for Britain
William Davies · A Crisis in Credibility
Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer’s platform requires them to inhabit a contradiction. They need to demonstrate what a...
02/10/2024
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new edited (with |Maximilian Conrad) book on post-truth and populism as part of our Horizon Reclaim project. It is available as open access here:
Post-Truth Populism
This open access book analyses the convergence between post-truth political culture and the politics of populism
25/09/2024
Simon Griffiths, Reader in British Politics, writes for the Constitution Society about how think tanks are changing today
The Changing Think Tank Environment - The Constitution Society
Simon Griffith examines how think tanks have changed, and in turn change uk politics, over the last 50 years.
16/09/2024
A new open access article, 'Stay Home: Mapping the new domestic regime' is published in Economy & Society, co-authored by our Head of Department Prof Will Davies with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor
Stay home: Mapping the new domestic regime
This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-pri...
28/06/2024
Dr Simon Griffiths writes for The Constitution Society about the constitutional issues at stake in the forthcoming election
The Three Constitutional Questions for Voters This Election - The Constitution Society
Simon Griffiths looks at the key constitutional questions arising from the party manifestos for the 2024 general election.
17/06/2024
One of our PPE graduates is now going head to head with Nigel Farage for a seat. Best of luck, Jovan!
Politics graduate to represent Labour in Clacton
Goldsmiths alumnus Jovan Owusu-Nepaul has been selected as the Labour Party’s Parliamentary candidate for Clacton, in the upcoming general election on July 4.
16/03/2024
Prof Will Davies, our Head of Department, writes for Unherd on the 10th anniversary of Thomas Piketty's landmark study of wealth and inequality
Thomas Piketty's failed revolution
Thomas Piketty’s failed revolution Ten years on, society is governed for the wealthy The Occupy movement knew who their enemies were. (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images) The Occupy movement knew who their enemies were. (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images) CapitalEconomicsInequalityMarxismnone...
13/03/2024
Dr Simon Griffiths, Reader in Politics at Goldsmiths, writes for the Constitution Society on Labour's new interest in citizens' assemblies https://consoc.org.uk/labour-and-citizens-assemblies/
20/02/2024
On 13th March, we will be hosting Gemma Milne who will be discussing her research on corporate futurism. All welcome but please register via the link below
'Making a Market for the Metamodern: The Productive Tension of Corporate Futurism' - Gemma Milne - 13th March - Political Economy Research Centre
'Making a Market for the Metamodern: The Productive Tension of Corporate Futurism' with Gemma Milne Wednesday 13th March 2024, 5-6.30pm Richard Hoggart Building 137a, Goldsmiths University, SE14 6NW Click here to register for a free ticket This event is part of the PERC speaker ser
24/01/2024
Prof Will Davies writes for The Guardian about Britain's drift to becoming a high tax state
Eye-watering taxes are a problem for the Tories – and an even bigger one for Labour | William Davies
After 13 years of Conservative rule, many voters simply resent taxes, now that they no longer mean better public services, says the political economist William Davies
15/01/2024
In The New Statesman, Prof Will Davies looks back on the successes and failures of democratic socialism over the course of the 2010s
The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution
How the left was made and unmade.
11/01/2024
Congratulations to our colleague Prof Saul Newman, whose new book (with Massimo La Tore) The Anarchist Before the Law will be published next month
The Anarchist before the Law
Explores the critical encounter between anarchism and law
07/01/2024
My new book on anarchist legal philosophy, co-authored with Massimo La Torre, is about to come out.
The Anarchist before the Law
Explores the critical encounter between anarchism and law