SPERI Presents...

A podcast tackling the big questions in political economy

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'SPERI Presents…' is a podcast produced by colleagues at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, taking on the big questions in political economy for scholars, students and publics within and beyond the discipline.

Across the 'SPERI Presents...' series, we bring insights from foundational debates and brand new research in the field to make sense of the social world around us by foregrounding the power relations of the global economy. We invite academics and practitioners to discuss contemporary capitalism, its ever-shifting dynamics, crises and governance - and how this shapes our experience of everyday life.

New Thinking in Political Economy

This ongoing series is hosted by Remi Edwards who is joined each month by a rotating co-host and an author of new research in political economy to discuss the motivations, contribution and implications of their work. Researchers from all career stages to discuss what inspired them to undertake the research and how it helps us to understand contemporary capitalism, its challenges and how to tackle them.

If you're interested in being a guest on New Thinking, get in touch with remi.edwards@sheffield.ac.uk.

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Crisis Point

Crisis Point is SPERI Presents... second limited series. It introduces the political economy of capitalist crises, providing historical and theoretical rigour to discourses around crisis in the present.

Chris Saltmarsh and Dr Dillon Wamsley interview political economy scholars with a range of expertises. These include Gareth Dale (The Great Depression), Colin Hay (1970s), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Asian Financial Crisis), Scott Lavery (2008 crash), Matthew Watson (The Long Depression), Clara Mattei (Austerity), Johnna Montgmorie (Housing Crisis), Martijn Konings (Cost-of-Living Crisis), Michael Bray (Crisis of Democracy) and Jeremy Green (Climate Crisis). The series is bookended by an introductory and concluding episode in which Chris and Dillon develop a theory of crisis appropriate for contemporary upheavals.

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Lessons in Power: what can the new Labour government learn from the last one?

Lessons in Power is SPERI Presents… first limited series. Professor Michael Jacobs and Mems Ayinla interview ministers and advisors from the New Labour administration (1997-2010) to tease out lessons on a range of issues for Keir Starmer’s newly formed Labour government.

Guests include former Cabinet Ministers David Blunkett (discussing immigration policy) and Clare Short (discussing overseas development and foreign policy); former special advisers Stewart Wood (on European policy), Carey Oppenheim (on social inclusion and poverty policy) and Meg Russell (on constitutional reform), the former heads of both the No 10 Policy Unit (Nick Pearce) and Strategy Unity (Geoff Mulgan) and both Tony Blair's political secretary Sally Morgan and Gordon Brown's deputy chief of staff Gavin Kelly (on how to manage a Prime Minister).

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Introducing SPERI Presents...

In this short episode, SPERI researchers discuss how political economy approaches that focus on power, struggle and the intersection of politics with the economy help them make sense of the world around them.

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Upcoming series

SPERI Presents… is currently developing a number of series aimed at discussing cutting edge research in the field of political economy, including Everyday International Political Economy; financialisation, and the economics in political economy.

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