Author: SPERI Research Team

Blog: Corporate Power & the Global Economy

by SPERI Research Team

Corporations sit at the heart of contemporary capitalism. They command vast resources, govern entire swaths of our economy, and wield immense political power. For instance, the 2017 sales of Walmart, the world’s top retailer, was around US$500 billion, around the scale of the GDP of a rich [...]

Read more

Blog: Finance, Debt & Society

by SPERI Research Team

Over the past decade, conventional thinking on the financial sector has been turned on its head. Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers argued that deregulated financial markets would self-regulate and accurately price risk. But in fact, complex financial products generated [...]

Read more

Blog: Capitalism, Democracy & the State

by SPERI Research Team

The 2008 financial crisis rocked global capitalism to its foundations. In its aftermath growth has slowed, living standards have stagnated, inequality has risen and tight fiscal austerity has re-shaped the social and political structure of many advanced countries. Developing economies have not [...]

Read more

Related Content

Blog: EXPERT HUB – REPORT: IS IT FAIR TO REMOVE THE TWO-CHIL

By the Fairness Foundation Do the fairness arguments for the two-child limit outweigh the arguments for abolishing it? This report weighs up the moral and philosophical cases on both sides, with reference to the empirical evidence, the political debate and what we know about public attitudes. [...]

Read more

Blog: EXPERT HUB – CONFERENCE REPORT: BUSINESS FIGHTS POVERT...

Business Fights Poverty’s Global Equity Summit, 6-7 March 2024, brought together world experts and industry leaders to offer practical insights and strategies to weave equity more deeply into the fabric of business practices, setting the stage for a more equitable and sustainable future. [...]

Read more

Blog: EXPERT HUB – REPORT: PLACES AND PURPOSE The second rep...

PLACES AND PURPOSE The second report from The Purposeful Finance Commission

Read more

Blog: REPORT: EXPERT HUB – UNEQUAL KINGDOM

By the Fairness Foundation The Fairness Foundation’s report, Unequal Kingdom, is based on polling carried out with Opinium in early January into UK public attitudes to inequalities and their impacts. The survey aimed to explore what forms of inequality people in Britain are most worried [...]

Read more