Global Economy, Regulation and Development (GEARED)

In this research unit we examine international development in the setting of current transformations in the global economy. Since the onset of the global financial crisis a widespread consensus has emerged that the previous two decades of de-regulation, and related institutional dismantling, bear a considerable part of the burden of responsibility for the crisis. As a result, a wide range of proposals to re-regulate the financial sector and the global economy more generally have emerged. Of particular interest to our research agenda are:

1) The nature, scope and limitations of these re-regulation efforts;

2) The kinds of tools, expertise and knowledge that are being mobilized in the process;