Jamie Morgan

jamie.morgan@manchester.ac.uk

Tel: 0161 275 3043 (messages only)
Fax: 0161 275 4722

Room G.11
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

Qualifications

PhD: Department of International Politics, UWA, Meta-critique in Contemporary Chinese Politics: Philosophy & Social Ontology

MA: International Relations (International Political Economy)

PGCE:  Economics

BSc (Hons):  Economics

Current Research Projects

‘Unfreedom as the Shadow of Freedom: A contribution to the meaning of unfree labour’ – available via email – a joint research project conducted as part of the Unfree Labour Research Group, which is in turn part of the Institute for Political Economy, Manchester University

ESRC Unfree Labour Seminar Series 2009/10 and 2010/11 – participant.  See http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/PEI/research/unfree/index.html for  more information.

‘A Realist Analysis Of Bourdieu’s Relevance in an Indian Development Context’ – available via email – a research project using mixed-methods data.

‘The limits of central bank policy: economic crisis and the challenge of effective solutions’ – available via email – a recent product of a research collaboration with the Universty Of Helsinki’ Research Centre of Excellence for Global Governance, 2006-8.

Publications

a. Books

With Mervyn Hartwig (eds.) Theism, Atheism and Meta-Reality: Realist Perspectives on Spirituality London: Routledge, forthcoming 2009

Private Equity Finance: Rise & Repercussions London: Macmillan Palgrave, November 2008.

b. Recent Papers 

“How should we conceive the continued resilience of the US Dollar as a reserve currency?”  Review of Radical Political Economics, vol 41 no 1 2008.

“China’s Growing Pains: towards the (global) political economy of domestic social instability” International Politics, no 3 2008.

With Wendy Olsen “Defining objectivity through realist argument: objectivity as a bridging concept, part 2: bridging to praxis” Journal of Critical Realism, vol 7 no 1, 2008.

With Wendy Olsen “Defining objectivity through realist argument: objectivity as a bridging concept, part 1: valuing objectivity” Journal of Critical Realism, vol 6 no 2, 2007.

“The UK pension system: the betrayal by New Labour in its neoliberal global context” Research in Political Economy, vol 23, 2005.

With Wendy Olsen: “Towards a critical epistemology of analytical statistics: realism in mathematical method,” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour vol 35 no 3 2005.