Matthew Watson is a professor of political economy and
international political economy (IPE) in
University of Warwick
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's Department of Politics and International Studies. His work in the area of IPE has been published widely; he has solely authored three books, and had around thirty articles published in peer reviewed academic journals on a wide range of issues in political economy and IPE. His three books are ''Foundations of International Political Economy'' (
Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2005) (which received a nomination for the IPEG Book of the Year Award 2004/2005),
[Berry, C (2006) Book Review of 'Foundations of International Political Economy', Millennium - Journal of International Studies 35 (1): 239.] ''Political Economy of International Capital Mobility'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and ''Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Between 2001 and 2007, Watson served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences.
Watson has also been an organiser of two of the
Political Studies Association's specialist groups: the Labour Movements Specialist Group and the Political Economy Specialist Group. Additionally, he has acted as advisor to both
Oxfam
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History
Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Co ...
(on its
fair trade
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campaign) and
War on Want (on its
Tobin tax and duty on foreign exchange transactions campaigns in the UK), and he has occasionally been consulted by
Bloomberg.com
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as an expert on the UK's economic policy.
Selected publications
*''The Market'' (Agenda Publishing, 2018).
*''Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
*''Political Economy of International Capital Mobility'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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*''Foundations of International Political Economy'', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
* (3rd place in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Article)
Templeton Enterprise Article Award
References
External links
Warwick University: Matthew Watson's Biography
British political scientists
Academics of the University of Warwick
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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