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Grahame Thompson

Grahame Thompson is professor of political economy at The Open University. He is the co-author (with Paul Hirst) of Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance (1999) and Between Hierarchies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of Organisation (2003).

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International contagion under national leadership

Monetary policy needs profitable banks. Do not expect the G20 meeting to solve credit-creation soon.

Crises reveal the underlying architecture of the system. Grahame Thompson sees in the financial crisis the truth of socialised money, the truth of a merely inter-national system of economic governance, and the truth of a media hoked on globalisation.

The financial crisis: unorthodox thoughts

The scale and character of the problems afflicting the finance sector need to be clarified if regulation  is to work. This in turn makes posssible a more nuanced understanding of the "financial-crisis cycle", argues Grahame Thompson.

Responsibility and neo-liberalism

The triumph of neo-liberal globalisation is also the imposition of a new mode of governance of institutions and individuals, to which the idea of responsibility is central. Grahame Thompson examines this achievement and assesses what can be done to address it.

Talking democracy: China's lesson in Denmark

A Danish experiment in citizen-led decision-making left Grahame Thompson convinced that "deliberative democracy" needs to rethink the balance between process and outcome.

What is fundamentalism?

A fear of difference drives fundamentalists towards sameness. In that impulse lies the seed of a path beyond war, says Grahame Thompson.