Stephen Barber (political scientist)

This article is about the British political scientist. For the British cultural studies academic, see Stephen Barber (writer). For the composer, see Stephen Barber (composer).

Stephen Barber (born 1974) is a British political scientist, political economist and author. He is Professor of Global Affairs at Regent's University London. He is also a senior fellow at the Global Policy Institute. He has also worked in the European Research Forum and is a former director of MBA. He is a specialist in British public policy and party politics, political economy and having worked in the City of London, the globalisation of financial markets. He holds a BA in government, an MA in contemporary history and a PhD in political science, awarded by several London universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Member of the Securities & Investment Institute. Following the Northern Rock and banking credit crisis in 2008, he outlined his concept of a regulatory cycle of economic behaviour.

He wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 programme The Case for Doing Nothing, which was broadcast in October 2016.

Publications

• Political Strategy: modern politics in contemporary Britain (2005)
• The City in Europe and the World (2005) (editor)
• The Geo-Politics of the City (2007) (editor)
• Greed (2009) (editor with Alexis Brassey)
• Tragedy of Riches: how our politics has failed us and why we need a new economic destiny (2011)
• Westminster, Governance and the Politics of Policy Inaction: Do Nothing (2016)

External links

• The Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University
• Liverpool Academic Press
• Greed page at Palgrave Macmillan
• Profile at London South Bank University website
• BBC