Markets

Our research goes beyond disciplinary boundaries to generate new knowledge and understandings of markets and market institutions. Engaging with social, political, economic, ecological, cultural, historical, technological, spatial, temporal and other dimensions of markets, our research scope extends from the household to industry sectors, nation-states, developing economies and the global economy. 

Our research focuses on: 

• The interrelatedness of markets (e.g. energy-finance-housing-labour)
• The transformation of public services (e.g. education, health), social practices (e.g. cleanliness, identities, ethics), and environmental conditions (e.g. biodiversity, carbon) into tradeable commodities
• The conceptualisation and governance of local, national and global markets
• The inequalities, injustices and unsustainability of market provisioning of essential goods and services
• Alternatives to the dualism of state-market provisioning.