Helen Thompson

I’m a Professor in Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and the Deputy Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

I am a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics and have a fortnightly column in The New Statesman.

Publications

Thompson, H. (2017). Oil and the Western Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan.
Thompson, H. (2017). Oil: The Missing Story of the West’s Economic and Geopolitical Crises. SPERI Global Political Economy Brief, No. 9.
Thompson, H. (2017). Inevitability and contingency: The political economy of Brexit. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(3), 434–449.
Thompson, H. (2017). How the City of London lost at Brexit: a historical perspective. Economy and Society, 46(2), 211–228.
Thompson, H. (2016). Enduring capital flow constraints and the 2007–8 financial and euro zone crises. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18, 216–233.

Disorder

China and the Mortgaging of America Economic Interdependence and Domestic Politics

Oil and the Western Economic Crisis

Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent: Representative Democracy and the International Economy 1919-2001