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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 · 26 February 2016 English
I am not going to write yet again about the EU Referendum today, or at least not directly, but rather about some reflections prompted by an article that appeared in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 February 2016 English
I had intended to write a post about Owen Hatherley’s stimulating recent book The Ministry of Nostalgia, and then thought I wanted to write something about today’s EU summit where …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 February 2016 English
One of the persistent themes in the book (which I am engaging with closely at the moment as I prepare the fourth edition) is to probe the meanings of efficiency …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 February 2016 English
I received an interesting email about this blog the other day. As the sender did not post it publicly I won’t reveal his name but I suppose it was what …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 February 2016 English
The British government have today announced plans to further restrict redundancy pay-offs made to public sector employees. Proposing an £80,000 cap, this will only affect senior staff, and it is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 January 2016 English
The book which this blog accompanies is in part a reaction to my despair about the state of organization studies. In other posts I have bemoaned the lack of historical …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 January 2016 English
As a UK Referendum on EU membership gets closer, much is being made by those urging exit of the idea of national sovereignty. Indeed for some Brexiters this is the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 January 2016 English
In the second edition of the book I made some remarks that turned out to be prescient about what at the time I wrote it was the nascent financial crisis. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 January 2016 English
Our topic today is, cheerily enough, death. It’s prompted by this week’s biggest global news story, the death of David Bowie. One of the consequences of the contemporary media is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 January 2016 English
The phrase ‘every Prime Minister needs a Willie’ was uttered by Margaret Thatcher, apparently without realising the double entendre it contained. It was a reference to her sometime deputy as …