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Professor Jamie Morgan
About Professor Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan lectures in the Subject Area of Economics, Analytics and International Business.
Jamie co-edits Real World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook. RWER is the world's largest open source economics journal with over 26,000 subscribers and an average of over one million article downloads per year. On a new electronic impact rating RWER was ranked fifth from 307 economics journals. Contributors include prominent exponents in all fields of economics, including Nobel Prize winners. The RWER Blog has over 15,000 members and RWER is now also affiliated to the newly founded World Economics Association. The WEA has more than 14,000 members worldwide.
Jamie is the former coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economists. The AHE shares with the WEA and the Institute for New Economic Thinking a commitment to the need for a renewed and more open approach to economics. Over the last decade, Jamie has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology and international politics.
Current Teaching
Jamie currently teaches a module on financial institutions and financial vulnerability.
Research Interests
Jamie works on contemporary problems and their socio-economic context, most recently: political transition (Brexit, Trump), corporate tax avoidance, climate change, financialisation, artificial intelligence and social change, and modern forms of slavery. He also has a longstanding interest in the philosophy, methodology and pedagogy of economics.
Jamie is an editorial board member of several journals and conducts peer review for many others. He supervises PhDs across the range of his interests.
Selected Publications
Journal articles (52)
- Morgan JA (In press) 'Will we work in twenty-first century capitalism? A critique of the fourth industrial revolution literature'
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2019.1620027
View Repository Record - Gills B; Morgan J (2020) Economics and climate emergency
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1841527
View Repository Record - Gills B; Morgan J (2020) Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1808413
View Repository Record - Porpora DV; Morgan J (2020) American sociology, realism, structure and truth : an interview with Douglas V. Porpora
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2020.1782708
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2020) Electric vehicles : The future we made and the problem of unmaking it
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beaa022
View Repository Record - Morgan J; Nasir MA (2020) Financialised Private Equity Finance and the Debt Gamble: The Case of Toys R Us
https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1782366
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2020) A critique of the Laffer theorem's macro-narrative consequences for corporate tax avoidance from a Global Wealth Chain perspective
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1760420
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2020) Tony Lawson, economics and the theory of social positioning
View Repository Record - Archer M; Morgan J (2020) Contributions to realist social theory : An interview with Margaret S. Archer
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2020.1732760
View Repository Record - Rescher N; Morgan J (2020) Philosophical purpose and purposive philosophy: an interview with Nicholas Rescher
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2019.1695085 - Morgan J; Daly H (2019) The importance of ecological economics: An interview with Herman Daly
View Repository Record - Gills B; Morgan J (2019) Global Climate Emergency : after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1669915 - Morgan JA; Syll LP (2019) Realism and critique in economics: An interview with Lars P. Syll
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2019) A Realist Alternative to Randomised Control Trials: A Bridge Not a Barrier?
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-019-00200-y
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2019) Introduction: Economics and civilization in ecological
crisis
View Repository Record - Gills B; Morgan JA; Patomäki H (2018) President Trump as status dysfunction
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418815419
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2018) Heterodox economics and economic methodology: an interview with John Davis
View Repository Record - Nasir M; Morgan JA (2018) Pre-Brexit: the EU referendum as an illustration of the effects of uncertainty on the Sterling exchange rate
https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-07-2017-0205
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2018) Species Being in the twenty-first century
https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2018.1498583
View Repository Record - Nasir M; Morgan J (2018) The unit root problem: Affinities between ergodicity and stationarity, its practical contradictions for central bank policy, and some consideration of alternative
https://doi.org/10.1080/01603477.2017.1387060
View Repository Record - Morgan JA; Patomäki H (2017) Contrast explanation in economics its context, meaning, and potential
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex033
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2017) Piketty and the Growth Dilemma Revisited in the Context of Ecological Economics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.02.024
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2017) Taxing the powerful, the rise of populism and the crisis in Europe: the case for the EU Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0052-x
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2017) Brexit: Be Careful What You Wish For?
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1228785
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2016) Corporation tax as a problem of MNC organisational circuits: The case for unitary taxation
https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148115623213
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2016) Paris COP 21: Power that Speaks the Truth?
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1163863
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2015) Is Economics Responding to Critique? What do the UK 2015 QAA Subject Benchmarks Indicate?
https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2015.1084774
View Repository Record - Morgan J (2015) Piketty's Calibration Economics: Inequality and the Dissolution of Solutions?
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2015.1072950
View Repository Record - Olsen W; Morgan J (2015) The Entrapment of Unfree Labor
https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796x15574759
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2015) The Contemporary Relevance of a Cambridge tradition: Economics as political economy, political economy as social theory and ethical theory
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bev021 - Morgan JA; Sheehan B (2015) Has reform of global finance been misconceived? Policy documents, and the Volcker Rule
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2014.994914 - Morgan JA; Olsen W (2015) The absence of decent work: the continued development of forced and unfree labour in India
https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v6i2.2344
View Repository Record - Morgan J; Sheehan B (2014) The Concept of Trust and the Political Economy of John Maynard Keynes, Illustrated Using Central Bank Forward Guidance and the Democratic Dilemma in Europe
https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2014.988054
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2014) What's in a name? Tony Lawson on Neoclassical Economics and Heterodox Economics
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu041 - Morgan JA (2014) Seeing the Potential of Realism in Economics
https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393114530785 - Colledge B; Morgan J; Tench R (2014) The concept(s) of trust in late modernity, the relevance of realist social theory
https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12064 - Lau R; Morgan JA (2013) Integrating Discourse, Construction and Objectivity: A Contemporary Realist Approach
https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513491466 - Morgan J (2013) Forward-looking contrast explanation, illustrated using the great moderation
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes069 - Morgan J (2013) Hedge funds: Statistical arbitrage, high frequency trading and their consequences for the environment of businesses
https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0020 - Morgan JA (2012) Economics Critique: Framing Procedures and Lawson's Realism in Economics
https://doi.org/10.1558/jcr.v11i1.94 - MORGAN J; OLSEN W (2011) Conceptual issues in institutional economics: clarifying the fluidity of rules
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744137410000299 - Morgan JA; Olsen W (2011) Aspiration problems for the Indian rural poor: research on Self-Help Groups and Micro-Finance
https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816811402646 - Morgan JA (2011) The significance of the mathematics of infinity for realism: Norris on Badiou
https://doi.org/10.1558/jcr.v10i2.243 - Olsen W; Morgan J (2010) Aspiration Problems in Indian Microfinance
https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796x1002600402 - Olsen W; Morgan J (2010) Institutional change from within the informal sector in Indian rural labour relations
https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2010.511915 - Morgan J (2009) The limits of central bank policy: economic crisis and the challenge of effective solutions
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep026 - Morgan J (2009) How Should We Conceive the Continued Resilience of the US Dollar as a Reserve Currency?
https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613408324408 - Morgan J (2008) China's growing pains: Towards the (Global) political economy of domestic social instability
https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2008.12 - Morgan J (2006) Interview with Michael Hardt
https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276406067100 - Morgan JA; Olsen W (2005) A critical epistemology of analytical statistics: addressing the sceptical realist
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2005.00279.x - Nielsen P; Morgan J (2005) No new revolution in economics? Taking Thompson and fine forward
https://doi.org/10.1080/0308514042000329333 - Morgan J (2004) Distinguishing Truth, Knowledge, and Belief
https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700404264792
Books (8)
- Fullbrook E; Morgan J ed. (2020) The Inequality Crisis. Bristol: World Economics Association Books.
- Fullbrook E; Morgan J ed. (2020) Modern Monetary Theory and its Critics. First Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.
- Fullbrook E; Morgan J ed. (2019) Economics and the Ecosystem. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.
- Morgan JA; Patomaki H ed. (2017) Brexit and the Political Economy of Fragmentation: Things Fall Apart (Rethinking Globalizations). Routledge.
- Morgan JA; Fullbrook E ed. (2017) Trumponomics: Causes and Consequences.
- Morgan J (2015) What Is Neoclassical Economics? Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance. Routledge.
- Fullbrook E; Morgan J ed. (2014) Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. London: College Publications.
- Morgan J (2008) Private Equity Finance: Rise and Repercussions. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594876
Chapters (4)
- Morgan JA (2019) Intervention, policy and responsibility Economics as over-engineered expertise?. In: Dolfsma W; Negru I The Ethical Formation of Economists. London: Routledge: SCEME Studies in Economic Methodology, pp. 145-163.
- Morgan JA (2018) Yesterday's tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of artificial intelligence. In: Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina. : Routledge, pp. 82-137.
- Morgan JA; Sun W (2017) Corporations, Taxation and Responsibility: Practical and Onto-Analytical Issues for Morphogenesis and Eudaimonia - A posse ad esse?. In: Archer M Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 185-210.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49469-2
View Repository Record - Morgan JA (2016) Critical Realism as a Social Ontology for Economics. In: Lee FS; Cronin B Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 15-34.
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