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About Grahame Thompson

Grahame Thompson is professor of political economy at The Open University.

Articles by Grahame Thompson

Wednesday 5th November

International contagion under national leadership

Grahame Thompson, 5 November 2008
Monetary policy needs profitable banks. The G20 meeting won't solve credit-creation soon
Friday 3rd October

The financial crisis: unorthodox thoughts

Grahame Thompson, 3 October 2008
Financial regulation should be flexible, pragmatic, local, not centralised, rule-bound, global
Tuesday 31st July

Responsibility and neo-liberalism

Grahame Thompson, 31 July 2007
The triumph of neo-liberal globalisation is also the imposition of a new way of governing behaviour
Thursday 30th November

Talking democracy: China's lesson in Denmark

Grahame Thompson, 30 November 2006
A Danish experiment in citizen-led decision-making left Grahame Thompson convinced that "deliberative democracy" needs to rethink the balance between process and outcome.
Thursday 9th March

What is fundamentalism?

Grahame Thompson, 9 March 2006
A fear of difference drives fundamentalists towards sameness. In that impulse lies the seed of a path beyond war, says Grahame Thompson.
Thursday 2nd December

Learning tolerance

Grahame Thompson, 2 December 2004
Global peace and security will best be advanced not by the deep institutional changes the United Nations’ high-level panel is likely to advocate, but by modest, incremental - and imaginative - steps, says Grahame Thompson.
Wednesday 30th June

The limits to globalisation: questions for Held and Wolf

Grahame Thompson, 30 June 2004
Grahame Thompson enters the debate on the reality and potential of globalisation with a dual warning to David Held and Martin Wolf: the international financial system is unsustainable – and its coming crisis may undermine both Held’s radical reformism and Wolf’s optimistic certainty.
Wednesday 8th October

A strident Victorian or a realistic pluralist?

Grahame Thompson, 8 October 2003
Grahame Thompson, in response to George Monbiot’s criticisms, elaborates his view that Monbiot’s proposals for future world governance in “The Age of Consent” are not only impractical, but dangerous.
Wednesday 24th September

The Age of Confusion

Grahame Thompson, 24 September 2003
The arguments for a world parliament made by George Monbiot in The “Age of Consent” need to be taken seriously, but in the end they are unrealistic and unworkable argues the co-author of “Globalisation in Question”.
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