Adam Leaver is a senior lecturer in Financial Innovation and Business Analysis at Manchester Business School. He is a co-author of After the Great Complacence: Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform and Financialization and Strategy: Narrative and Numbers. His current research focuses on the disruptive effects of crisis on national business models.
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Published in: ourEconomyUnderlying profits, underlying problems: rewards for failure at InterserveInterserve illustrates how the beneficiaries of shareholder value driven strategies are not necessarily shareholders, but boardroom elites and their intermediary helpers.
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Published in: ourEconomyAttack of the CLOnes: the return of complex debt instruments'CDOs’ were widely blamed for fuelling the financial crisis. Now similar instruments called 'CLOs' are in the ascendance. Is it time to start worrying?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe metropolitanisation of gains, the nationalisation of lossesThe prosperous South East can no longer afford to subsidise the rest of the United Kingdom. Or so runs the conventional wisdom. The facts, on the other hand, are rushing headlong in the opposite direction.
