Matthew Watson (political economist)


Matthew Watson is a professor of political economy and international political economy in University of Warwick's Department of Politics and International Studies. His work in the area of IPE has been published widely; he has solely authored three books, and had around thirty articles published in peer reviewed academic journals on a wide range of issues in political economy and IPE. His three books are Foundations of International Political Economy , Political Economy of International Capital Mobility, and Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World. Between 2001 and 2007, Watson served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences.
Watson has also been an organiser of two of the Political Studies Association's specialist groups: the Labour Movements Specialist Group and the Political Economy Specialist Group. Additionally, he has acted as advisor to both Oxfam and War on Want, and he has occasionally been consulted by Bloomberg.com as an expert on the UK's economic policy.

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