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Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was previously a Professor at Cambridge University and Warwick University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He originally studied Economics and Politics at Manchester University, where he also gained a PhD on the regulation of financial services.
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 September 2014 English
I have posted elsewhere on this blog (e.g. The New Barons and Impoverished by outsourcing) about the consequences of public sector outsourcing, picking up on some brief comments in the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 September 2014 English
The referendum on Scottish independence is, obviously, the biggest news story in Scotland at the moment, but also in the UK, and it is important for the whole of Europe …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 June 2014 English
The recent European Parliament elections yielded some striking results, with nationalistic and far Right parties doing especially well, notably in the UK, France and Denmark. In Greece, it was the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 May 2014 English
There is a big political row about the US drug company Pfizer’s bid to buy its British rival AstraZeneca. It is interesting that it is a row because for at …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 April 2014 English
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine serves as a reminder of the ways – some naïve, some triumphalist – that the collapse of the Soviet Union was misunderstood in the West. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 March 2014 English
The subject of pensions does not excite great interest. It seems boring, technical and remote. But a pension is a key aspect of work, being a form of deferred wage. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 March 2014 English
Today's post is prompted by the news that Euan Sutherland, the Chief Executive of the Co-op Group, has resigned after just 10 months in the post, saying that the Group …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 February 2014 English
Britain has recently experienced extensive flooding, especially in the South of the country and, as with many other things I have discussed on the blog – most recently cricket – …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 October 2013 English
It was announced today that a new nuclear energy plant is to be built in Britain, a development described by the government as ‘historic’. Well, it is historic but perhaps …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2013 English
I’ve come across two thought-provoking articles today, and the thoughts they provoked were not pleasant. One is a piece in The Guardian by Seamus Milne about the growth of ‘zero-hours …