School of Economics, History and Politics
The School of Economics, Politics and History encompasses a range of full and combined subjects in these popular and established disciplines, providing an interdisciplinary context to each subject's own special focus for teaching and research.
The School has an active research culture; staff and students present their findings at international conferences and publish them, as books, in academic journals and as commissioned research reports. Our research interests inform our teaching, with staff publications featuring in the study materials for each course.
In addition to our extensive range of taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, we welcome applications to register as supervised postgraduate research students.
We care about our students' achievements and are proud of the many examples of personal success amongst our past students.
We offer a wide variety of degree courses at undergraduate level and a specialised taught postgraduate programme.
We are actively engaged in research in Economics and welcome applications to register on our research degrees programme.
News and activities
22 June 2012
Presentation at SOAS
Engelbert Stockhammer and Dimitris Sotiropoulos present 'The costs of rebalancing Europe' at the 2012 PSKG Workshop, SOAS, London, June 2012. http://www.postkeynesian.net/SOAS12.html
21 June 2012
Wage cuts & unemployment
The paper 'Still unemployed, after all these wage cuts' by Engelbert Stockhammer has been published in C. Gnos, L. Rochon and A. Tropeano (eds): Employment, Growth and Development. Edward Elgar, pp. 108-120 http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13255&sub_values=&site_Bus_Man=&site_dev=&site_eco=&site_env_eco=&site_inn_tech=&site_int_pol=&site_law=&site_pub_soc=
20 June 2012
Financialization article
The paper 'Financialization, income distribution and the crisis' by Engelbert Stockhammer has been published in Investigación Económica 71, 279: 39-70 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=journal&issn=01851667&volume=71&issue=279&date=2011&uiLanguage=en
30 May 2012
Forthcoming article
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society has accepted for [ublication "US auto companies' ownership and control of production in Mexico's 'Maquiladoras'" by Fidelma Murphy and Terrence McDonough (NUI, Galway). This article will appear in the forthcoming 'Capitalism, Ownership and Place' special issue of the journal.
25 May 2012
Discussion Papers via IDEAS
Our Discussion Paper series is now accessible via the IDEAS database. The first paper to be published this way is
Prazmowski, Peter A. and Sanchez Fung, Jose (2012) Assessing the impact of different nominal anchors on the credibility of stabilisation programmes. (Discussion Paper) Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University. 19 p. (Economics Discussion Paper, no. 2012/1)
24 May 2012
PERI discussion paper
Engelbert Stockhammer's "Rising inequality as a root cause of the present crisis" has been published as Working paper #282 by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. USA.
