Graham Room

Graham Room</a> is Professor of European Social Policy, University of Bath, and author of Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy (Edward Elgar 2011)</a>

The world is complex and unstable. Our approach to policy-making must reflect that fact.

Social scientists and policy-makes have long built their models around a theory of 'rational action' which bears little relation to how people respond to the complexities of the world around them.

By Graham Room

/ 31 Aug 2016

Putting the financial genie back in the bottle: the Euro crisis demands bold Keynesian solutions

The ascendancy of the financial markets which developed in the 1980s must be put into reverse. The genie must be put back in the bottle. A Keynesian ‘euthanasia of the rentier’ is now essential for both growth and democracy.

By Graham Room

/ 3 May 2012