🔥 New issue online. The November issue "Mission-Oriented Policy: Innovation and Regional Development" is now published online!
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Maryann Feldman, @michaelkitson.bsky.social, Johan P Larsson, Peter Tyler and @elvirauyarra.bsky.social
Forthcoming @stcatharines.bsky.social political economy seminars include: Prof Steve Fothergill (22 Oct); Adam Yousef (12 Nov) and Dr Melissa Sands (26 Nov). Further details: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk
The best thing about this moment is that it pretty much destroys any historical narrative that past historical figures must have all been brilliant rational actors in order to be remembered.
The July issue of CJRES is titled The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development
It will publish shortly in full - you can read the Editorial Introduction at doi.org/10.1093/cjre... free access.
@roberthassink.bsky.social, @dfkogler.bsky.social, Davide Ponzini and Xuefei Ren
We are now finalising the programme for the CJRES annual conference: The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient
Book now!
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Next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar. @ugentilini.bsky.social : ‘What Are We Learning from 2,500 Years of Cash Transfers?’ Monday, 12 May, 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. Further details: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk/events/what-...
Next St Catz Pol Econ Seminar @paulswinney.bsky.social (Director of Policy and Research, Centre for Cities), ‘Spreading prosperity across the country – what is the government doing, and will it work - Wed, 9 April, 6.00-7.30 pm. All welcome. www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk/events/sprea...
How do #megatrends like #Al, climate change & global politics shape our world? @michaelkitson.bsky.social of #CambridgeJudge explains how these long-term forces interact with crises—helping leaders navigate uncertainty. #ClimateChange
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/how-meg...
Yesterday evening we welcomed @neillee.bsky.social to our Cambridge Political Economy Seminar series at @stcatherines.bsky.social @cjres.bsky.social we had a very fruitful discussion on inclusive innovation and ways to diffuse its benefits more widely. A timely topic we should keep reflecting on!
Next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar. Professor @neillee.bsky.social (LSE): ‘Innovation for all', Wednesday 5th March, 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. Further details: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk/events/innov...
Next St Catharine’s Pol Econ Seminar. Prof Christina Beatty (@cresr-shu.bsky.social): 'Reducing economic inactivity in the UK: An economic and political imperative'. Ramsden Room, Wed 19th Feb from 6.00-7.30 pm. All welcome. Further details: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk/events/reduc...
🔥📣 Fresh off the press:
Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2025
Global Forces and Local Impacts: Megatrends in Regional Economic Development
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#GlobalForces #Megatrends #LocalImpact
@michaelkitson.bsky.social @harrygarretsen.bsky.social Chun (Charlotte) Yang
Next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar. @ugentilini.bsky.social: ‘What Are We Learning from 2,500 Years of Cash Transfers?’ Monday, 3 February, 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. Further details: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk/events/what-...
2025 @cjres.bsky.social conference: ‘The climate crisis: making cities resilient’ July 17 -18 at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK. Further information and CFP: cpes.org.uk/events/cjres... #ClimateCrisis
🔥FREE ACCESS: The Editorial for the Global Forces and Local Impacts: Megatrends in Regional Economic Development issue
#GlobalForces #Megatrends #LocalImpact
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@harrygarretsen.bsky.social Chuan Yang and @michaelkitson.bsky.social
📣Just published article for the CJRES SI on #GlobalForces #Megatrends #LocalImpact
Global Digital Networks by Matthew Zook and Michael Grote
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'the simplest way to understand how the country is doing is to ask its people how they are doing.'
Our @probonoecon.bsky.social latest report explores low wellbeing in the UK. It highlights its key drivers - and the clear disparities.
Take a look 👉 bit.ly/probonoecono...
Next St Catharine’s Pol Econ Seminar. Prof Claire Colomb (Cambridge), ‘Governing urban platform capitalism. The contentious regulation of short-term rental housing in European cities – a comparative approach’, Wed 27th Nov , 6.00-7.30 pm. Details: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk/events/gover...
Why is AI-driven productivity a decade away in the UK?
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social dispels the notion that artificial intelligence is a quick fix for Britain’s productivity problem in the latest episode of @bloomberg.com's Merryn Talks Money.
Listen: archive.ph/xcAoe#select...
CJRES is preparing and publishing content for the March 2025 issue.
The issue is Global Forces and Local Impacts: Megatrends in Regional Economic Development
edited by Harry Garretsen Michael Kitson and Chun(Charlotte) YANG
Follow for newly available papers!
📣Just published: The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth
Guiseppe Simone
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#GlobalForces #Megatrends #LocalImpact
The full issue of the November CJRES issue "Critical geographies of the circular economy" has been assembled online.
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Edited by Anna Davies, Emili Evenhuis, Emma Avoyan, Joanna Williams and Pete Tyler
