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Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation (2024)
Journal Article
Copley, J. (online). Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation. New Political Economy, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2024.2373051

Studies of the political economy of decarbonisation have begun to move beyond the price-centrism of neoclassical economics to explore the role of profits in propelling, or failing to propel, a green transformation. This article pushes this argument f... Read More about Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation.

Monetary sovereignty and the ‘Invisible Leviathan’: the politics of Marx’s theory of money (2024)
Journal Article
Copley, J. (2024). Monetary sovereignty and the ‘Invisible Leviathan’: the politics of Marx’s theory of money. Global Political Economy, https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2024D000000020

A debate has recently emerged in Heterodox Economics and Political Economy on the nature of monetary sovereignty, and whether it can be democratized and wielded to address the social and environmental catastrophes of our age. While Modern Monetary Th... Read More about Monetary sovereignty and the ‘Invisible Leviathan’: the politics of Marx’s theory of money.

The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown (2023)
Journal Article
Alami, I., Copley, J., & Moraitis, A. (2023). The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown. Geoforum, 153, Article 103691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103691

Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the prospects of state-led environmental transitions in general terms – enquiring as to the capitalist state’s inher... Read More about The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown.

Decarbonizing the Downturn: Addressing Climate Change in an Age of Stagnation (2022)
Journal Article
Copley, J. (2023). Decarbonizing the Downturn: Addressing Climate Change in an Age of Stagnation. Competition & Change, 27(3-4), 429–448. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294221120986

Meeting the Paris climate goals requires the global economy’s urgent decarbonization. States and intergovernmental bodies insist that this should be pursued via a tremendous spike in private investment in renewable power – encouraged and coordinated... Read More about Decarbonizing the Downturn: Addressing Climate Change in an Age of Stagnation.

Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain (2021)
Book
Copley, J. (2022). Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897015.001.0001

Capitalism has become ‘financialized’. Since the 1970s, the swelling of financial markets and asset price bubbles has occurred alongside weaker underlying economic growth. Yet financialization was not a spontaneous market development—it was rather de... Read More about Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain.

Beyond the Mutual Constitution of States and Markets: On the Governance of Alienation (2020)
Journal Article
Copley, J., & Moraitis, A. (2021). Beyond the Mutual Constitution of States and Markets: On the Governance of Alienation. New Political Economy, 26(3), 490-508. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1766430

International Political Economy (IPE) textbooks tend to present the concept of a clear state-market dichotomy as the disciplinary mainstream. Yet we argue that a critical consensus has emerged around the mutual constitution of states and markets. Und... Read More about Beyond the Mutual Constitution of States and Markets: On the Governance of Alienation.

Financial Deregulation and the Role of Statecraft: Lessons from Britain’s 1971 Competition and Credit Control Measures (2017)
Journal Article
Copley, J. (2017). Financial Deregulation and the Role of Statecraft: Lessons from Britain’s 1971 Competition and Credit Control Measures. New Political Economy, 22(6), 692-708. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1311849

Within the financialisation literature, a number of approaches identify the coexistence of financial expansion and productive stagnation. Yet there is no consensus on which direction causality operates between these two phenomena. This impasse has be... Read More about Financial Deregulation and the Role of Statecraft: Lessons from Britain’s 1971 Competition and Credit Control Measures.