Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Professor Jamie Morgan
Professor
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 Outputs
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Morgan J (2022) Classical political economy and its ongoing relevance. In: Stillwell F; Primrose D; Thornton T ed. Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 33-50.
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Morgan J (2022) Private Equity. In: Seabrooke L; Wigan D ed. Global Wealth Chains Asset Strategies in the World Economy. Oxford University Press,
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Morgan J (2021) Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Social Care in Aging Societies: Who or What Will Care for Us in the Future?. In: Carrigan M; Porpora D ed. Post-Human Futures: Human enhancement, artificial intelligence and social theory. London: Routledge, pp. 92-116.
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Morgan JA (2019) Intervention, policy and responsibility Economics as over-engineered expertise?. In: Dolfsma W; Negru I ed. The Ethical Formation of Economists. London: Routledge, pp. 145-163.
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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.
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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 ed. Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 185-210.
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Morgan JA (2016) Critical Realism as a Social Ontology for Economics. In: Lee FS; Cronin B ed. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 15-34.
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Morgan JA (In press) ‘Will we work in twenty-first century capitalism? A critique of the fourth industrial revolution literature’. Economy and Society
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Morgan J (2022) Systemic stablecoin and the defensive case for Central Bank Digital Currency: A critique of the Bank of England’s framing. Research in International Business and Finance, 62 pp. 101716-101716.
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Sayer A; Morgan J (2022) A realist journey through social theory and political economy: an interview with Andrew Sayer. Journal of Critical Realism, 21 (4), pp. 434-470.
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Morgan J (2022) Book Review: Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care, by Laura Katz Olson. ILR Review, pp. 001979392211105-001979392211105.
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Derbyshire J; Morgan J (2022) Is seeking certainty in climate sensitivity measures counterproductive in the context of climate emergency? The case for scenario planning. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 182 pp. 121811-121811.
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Lawson T; Morgan J (2021) Cambridge social ontology, the philosophical critique of modern economics and social positioning theory: an interview with Tony Lawson, part 2. Journal of Critical Realism, 20 (2), pp. 201-237.
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Morgan J; Patomäki H (2021) Planetary good governance after the Paris Agreement: The case for a global greenhouse gas tax. Journal of Environmental Management, 292 pp. 112753-112753.
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Keen S; Morgan J (2021) From finance to climate crisis: An interview with Steve Keen. Real-World Economics Review, (95), pp. 130-147.
https://rwer.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/issue-no-95-real-world-economics-review/
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Lawson T; Morgan J (2021) Cambridge social ontology, the philosophical critique of modern economics and social positioning theory: an interview with Tony Lawson, part 1. Journal of Critical Realism, 20 (1), pp. 72-97.
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Gills B; Morgan J (2020) Economics and climate emergency. Globalizations, pp. 1-16.
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Gills B; Morgan J (2020) Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education. Globalizations, pp. 1-17.
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Porpora DV; Morgan J (2020) American sociology, realism, structure and truth : an interview with Douglas V. Porpora. Journal of Critical Realism, pp. 1-23.
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Morgan J (2020) Electric vehicles : The future we made and the problem of unmaking it. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 44 (4), pp. 953-977.
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Morgan J; Nasir MA (2020) Financialised Private Equity Finance and the Debt Gamble: The Case of Toys R Us. New Political Economy, pp. 1-17.
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Morgan J (2020) A critique of the Laffer theorem’s macro-narrative consequences for corporate tax avoidance from a Global Wealth Chain perspective. Globalizations, pp. 1-21.
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Morgan J (2020) Tony Lawson, economics and the theory of social positioning. Real-World Economics Review, (91), pp. 132-145.
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Archer M; Morgan J (2020) Contributions to realist social theory : An interview with Margaret S. Archer. Journal of Critical Realism, 19 (2), pp. 179-200.
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Rescher N; Morgan J (2020) Philosophical purpose and purposive philosophy: an interview with Nicholas Rescher. Journal of Critical Realism, 19 (1), pp. 58-77.
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Morgan J; Daly H (2019) The importance of ecological economics: An interview with Herman Daly. Real-World Economics Review, (90), pp. 137-154.
https://rwer.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/new-issue-of-the-real-world-economics-review-90/
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Gills B; Morgan J (2019) Global Climate Emergency : after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity. Globalizations
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Morgan JA; Syll LP (2019) Realism and critique in economics: An interview with Lars P. Syll. Real-World Economics Review, (88), pp. 60-75.
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Morgan JA (2019) A Realist Alternative to Randomised Control Trials: A Bridge Not a Barrier?. The European Journal of Development Research, 31 (2), pp. 180-188.
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Morgan JA (2019) Introduction: Economics and civilization in ecological crisis. Real-World Economics Review, 87
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Gills B; Morgan JA; Patomäki H (2018) President Trump as status dysfunction. Organization, 26 (2), pp. 291-301.
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Morgan JA (2018) Heterodox economics and economic methodology: an interview with John Davis. real-world economics review, 86
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Nasir M; Morgan JA (2018) Pre-Brexit: the EU referendum as an illustration of the effects of uncertainty on the Sterling exchange rate. Journal of Economic Studies, 45 (5), pp. 910-921.
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Morgan JA (2018) Species Being in the twenty-first century. Review of Political Economy
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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. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
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Morgan JA; Patomäki H (2017) Contrast explanation in economics its context, meaning, and potential. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Morgan J (2017) Piketty and the Growth Dilemma Revisited in the Context of Ecological Economics. Ecological Economics, 136 pp. 169-177.
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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. International Politics
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Morgan JA (2017) Brexit: Be Careful What You Wish For?. Globalizations, 14 (1), pp. 118-126.
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Morgan JA (2016) Corporation tax as a problem of MNC organisational circuits: The case for unitary taxation. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18 (2), pp. 463-481.
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Morgan J (2016) Paris COP 21: Power that Speaks the Truth?. Globalizations, 13 (6), pp. 943-951.
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Morgan J (2015) Is Economics Responding to Critique? What do the UK 2015 QAA Subject Benchmarks Indicate?. Review of Political Economy, 27 (4), pp. 518-538.
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Morgan J (2015) Piketty's Calibration Economics: Inequality and the Dissolution of Solutions?. Globalizations, 12 (5), pp. 803-823.
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Olsen W; Morgan J (2015) The Entrapment of Unfree Labor. Journal of Developing Societies, 31 (2), pp. 184-203.
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Morgan JA (2015) The Contemporary Relevance of a Cambridge tradition: Economics as political economy, political economy as social theory and ethical theory. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Morgan JA; Sheehan B (2015) Has reform of global finance been misconceived? Policy documents, and the Volcker Rule. Globalizations, 12 (5), pp. 695-709.
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Morgan JA; Olsen W (2015) The absence of decent work: the continued development of forced and unfree labour in India. Global Labour Journal, 6 (2), pp. 173-188.
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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. Review of Social Economy, 73 (1), pp. 113-137.
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Morgan JA (2014) What’s in a name? Tony Lawson on Neoclassical Economics and Heterodox Economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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Morgan JA (2014) Seeing the Potential of Realism in Economics. Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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Colledge B; Morgan J; Tench R (2014) The concept(s) of trust in late modernity, the relevance of realist social theory. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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Lau R; Morgan JA (2013) Integrating Discourse, Construction and Objectivity: A Contemporary Realist Approach. Sociology, 48 (3), pp. 573-589.
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Morgan J (2013) Forward-looking contrast explanation, illustrated using the great moderation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37 (4), pp. 737-758.
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Morgan J (2013) Hedge funds: Statistical arbitrage, high frequency trading and their consequences for the environment of businesses. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 9 (4), pp. 377-397.
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Morgan JA (2012) Economics Critique: Framing Procedures and Lawson's Realism in Economics. Journal of Critical Realism, 11 (1), pp. 94-125.
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MORGAN J; OLSEN W (2011) Conceptual issues in institutional economics: clarifying the fluidity of rules. Journal of Institutional Economics, 7 (3), pp. 425-454.
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Morgan JA; Olsen W (2011) Aspiration problems for the Indian rural poor: research on Self-Help Groups and Micro-Finance. Capital & Class, 35 (2), pp. 189-212.
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Morgan JA (2011) The significance of the mathematics of infinity for realism: Norris on Badiou. Journal of Critical Realism, 10 (2), pp. 243-270.
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Olsen W; Morgan J (2010) Aspiration Problems in Indian Microfinance. Journal of Developing Societies, 26 (4), pp. 415-454.
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Olsen W; Morgan J (2010) Institutional change from within the informal sector in Indian rural labour relations. International Review of Sociology, 20 (3), pp. 533-553.
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Morgan J (2009) The limits of central bank policy: economic crisis and the challenge of effective solutions. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33 (4), pp. 581-608.
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Morgan J (2009) How Should We Conceive the Continued Resilience of the US Dollar as a Reserve Currency?. Review of Radical Political Economics, 41 (1), pp. 43-61.
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Morgan J (2008) China's growing pains: Towards the (Global) political economy of domestic social instability. International Politics, 45 (4), pp. 413-438.
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Morgan J (2006) Interview with Michael Hardt. Theory, Culture & Society, 23 (5), pp. 93-113.
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Morgan JA; Olsen W (2005) A critical epistemology of analytical statistics: addressing the sceptical realist. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 35 (3), pp. 255-284.
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Nielsen P; Morgan J (2005) No new revolution in economics? Taking Thompson and fine forward. Economy and Society, 34 (1), pp. 51-75.
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Morgan J (2004) Distinguishing Truth, Knowledge, and Belief. Modern China, 30 (3), pp. 398-427.
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eds. Gills B; Morgan J (2022) Economics and Climate Emergency. London: Routledge.
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Fullbrook E; Morgan J (2021) Post Neo-liberal Economics. Bristol: World Economics Association.
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eds. Fullbrook E; Morgan J (2020) The Inequality Crisis. Bristol: World Economics Association Books.
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eds. Fullbrook E; Morgan J (2020) Modern Monetary Theory and its Critics. First Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.
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eds. Fullbrook E; Morgan J (2019) Economics and the Ecosystem. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.
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eds. Morgan JA; Patomaki H (2017) Brexit and the Political Economy of Fragmentation: Things Fall Apart (Rethinking Globalizations). Routledge.
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eds. Morgan JA; Fullbrook E (2017) Trumponomics: Causes and Consequences.
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Morgan J (2015) What Is Neoclassical Economics? Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance. Routledge.
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eds. Fullbrook E; Morgan J (2014) Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. London: College Publications.
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Morgan J (2008) Private Equity Finance: Rise and Repercussions. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
