Matthew Watson (political economist)
Matthew Watson is a professor of political economy and international political economy (IPE) in University of Warwick's Department of Politics and International Studies. His work in the area of IPE has been published widely; he has solely authored three books, and had around thirty articles published in peer reviewed academic journals on a wide range of issues in political economy and IPE.[1] His three books are Foundations of International Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) (which received a nomination for the IPEG Book of the Year Award 2004/2005),[2] Political Economy of International Capital Mobility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007),[3] and Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).[4] Between 2001 and 2007, Watson served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences.[5]
Watson has also been an organiser of two of the Political Studies Association's specialist groups: the Labour Movements Specialist Group and the Political Economy Specialist Group.[6] Additionally, he has acted as advisor to both Oxfam (on its fair trade campaign) and War on Want (on its Tobin tax and duty on foreign exchange transactions campaigns in the UK),[7] and he has occasionally been consulted by Bloomberg.com as an expert on the UK's economic policy.[8][9]