Political Economy
Exploring the distribution of resources through the interplay of economy, polity, society and culture across all different levels.
Our Research
Our Expertise
- Banking, finance, and regulation
- British political economy
- Corporations
- Development
- Eurocentrism
- European Union governance
- Food, food insecurity, and food banks
- Global environmental politics
- Global governance
- Global supply chains
- Heterodox economics
- Inequality
- Neoliberalism
- Political economy theory and method
- Sustainability
- Tax, welfare and redistribution
- Trade, investment, and global supply chains
Our group
The Political Economy Research Group explores the distribution of resources through the interplay of economy, polity, society and culture across a number of different levels: from the grass-roots and local levels, through community to the nation state, to the global system and its institutions.
We are committed to the real world relevance of our research by addressing urgent questions on topics such as inequality and financial fragility, and working with non-academic partners. Our group overlaps with the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) and we organise a number of events together.
SPERI
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institution
SPERI is an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (ICOSS), at the University of Sheffield. It aims to bring together leading international researchers, policy-makers, journalists and opinion formers to develop new ways of thinking about the economic and political challenges posed for the whole world by the current combination of financial crisis, shifting economic power and environmental threat.
Research highlight
In 2018 SPERI launched an innovative postgraduate research programme to explore the political economy of the Weinstein scandal.
Our Staff
Find out more about members of the Political Economy Research Group and their PhD supervision expertise on our staff profiles