Activities and Outputs
Talk at Liam Stanley's Book Launch, Britain Alone, University of Sheffield
On March 9th 2022 I was one of the discussants, alongside Maya GoodfellowLink opens in a new window, at the launch of Britain Alone, the new book by Liam StanleyLink opens in a new window. The event was hosted by the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute and was live streamed so that a permanent record could be stored on the University of Sheffield PlayerLink opens in a new window. Liam's book is published by Manchester University Press.
SPERI Comment Blog Post: Conservative Fantasies of 'the Market'
Philip Hammond has recently made a rather startling confession for a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer: that 'the market' is currently failing fairness tests in the distributional outcomes it is producing in the UK. However, his solution saw him quickly restored to partisan type, idealising 'textbook' market institutions and setting as the future goal returning to the way market outcomes are 'supposed to' operate. This SPERI Comment blog post highlights the continued reification of ideal-typical market constructions within Conservative Party political rhetoric. 'The market' is still capable of producing the best possible outcomes, Hammond seemed to be saying, even if the Government of which he was a key member had found it impossible to secure the conditions under which this might be so.
SPERI Comment Blog Post: Economic Uncertainty and Economics Imperialism
The question of why uncertainty does not feature more prominently as an economic ontology requires answers that are rooted in intellectual history. This post, the sixth in the SPERI series on uncertainty, searches for them by looking at how economic history has become increasingly colonised by economic theory, and economic theory by mathematics.
SPERI Comment Blog Post: 'Paul Romer on Mathiness and Orthodox Economics Methodology'
Recent criticisms of the mathiness of many economists has raised the question within the blogosphere of whether a fundamental fault-line has now punctured economics orthodoxy.
http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2015/09/16/paul-romer-on-mathiness-and-orthodox-economics-methodology/
University of Sheffield Political Economy Research Group Seminar Series
On May 16th 2017 I delivered a paper to the Political Economy Research Group Seminar Series organised out of the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. The paper was entitled, 'The Storytelling Dimension of Neoclassical Models of Market Exchange: Crusoe, Friday and the Myth of Agential Equality'.
SPERI Conference, Sheffield
On July 4th 2016 I acted alongside Colin Hay as one of the two discussants on the panel at the SPERI Conference in Sheffield entitled, 'Exploring Alternative Growth Models'. The two papers being discussed were written by David Coates, Wake Forest University ('Riding the Tiger: Towards a New Growth Strategy for the Political Left') and Terence Casey, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology ('Rupture or Reform? In Defense of Neoliberalism').
SPERI Seminar Presentation, University of Sheffield
On February 25th 2015 I presented a paper at the SPERI Seminar Series at the University of Sheffield. The paper was entitled, 'Deep History of Economic Thought as a Methodology of 'Unlearning': Liberating IPE from the Textbook Account of the Methodenstreit'.