New Perspectives on Industrial Policy for a Modern Britain
Edited by David Bailey, Keith Cowling, and Philip Tomlinson
Author Information
David Bailey, Professor of Industrial Strategy, Aston Business School, University of Aston, Birmingham,Keith Cowling, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, Coventry,Philip Tomlinson, Associate Professor of Business Economics, School of Management, University of Bath
David Bailey is Professor of Industrial Strategy at the Aston Business School. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. His recent research has been funded by a number of state and private organisations including the ESRC. He recently undertook an INTERREG project on the role of FDI in cluster upgrading, and is an Area Coordinator (on industrial policy) for the FP7 project WWW for Europe (Welfare, Wealth, Work). He is a regular blogger, newspaper columnist, and media commentator. He was Chair of the Regional Studies Association over 2006-12 and is now an Honorary Vice-Chair, and an Editor of the journals Regional Studies and Policy Studies.
Keith Cowling is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are in industrial organisation and the deficiencies of monopoly capitalism. He has played significant roles as an industrial policy advisor and published extensively in the fields of industrial economics and policy. He was the founding Editor of International Journal of Industrial Organisation and is author of several books, including Monopoly Capitalism (MacMillan, 1982) and (with Roger Sugden), Beyond Capitalism: Towards a New World Economic Order (Pinter Press, 1994). He was an early President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and a founding member of the European Union Network for Industrial Policy (EUNIP).
Philip Tomlinson is Associate Professor in Business Economics at the University of Bath School of Management, where he is also a convenor for the Institute for Policy Research (IPR). His research interests predominantly focus upon economic governance, regional development and industrial policy, where he has published extensively in some of the world's leading academic journals. He also co-edited Crisis or Recovery in Japan: State and Industrial Economy (2007, Edward Elgar, with David Bailey and Dan Coffey) and has contributed to several edited volumes. He has addressed the All Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group on industrial policy and also worked closely with the British Ceramic Confederation on issues relating to the development of the ceramics industry.
Contributors:
Karl Aiginger, WIFO
David Bailey, Aston Business School
Andrew Bowman, University of Manchester
Phillip Brown, Cardiff University
David Coates, Wake Forest University
Sin Yi Cheung, Cardiff University
Dan Coffey, Leeds University Business School
Keith Cowling, University of Warwick
Marc Cowling, Brighton Business School
Lisa De Propis, Birmingham Business School
Nigel Driffield, University of Warwick
Julie Froud, University of Manchester
Francis Green, LLAKES Centre, Institute of Education
Paul Hildreth, independent advisor
Sukhdev Johal, Queen Mary, University of London
Mushtaq Khan, SOAS, University of London
Sandra Lancheros, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Paul Latreille, University of Sheffield
Hugh Lauder, University of Bath
Adam Leaver, University of Manchester
Helena Lenihan, University of Limerick
Weixi Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Geoff Mason, Institute of Education, University of London
Mariana Mazzucato, University of Sussex
Jonathan Michie, University of Oxford
Gordon Murray, University of Exeter Business School
Tim Page, TUC
Christos Pitelis, University of Bath
Richard Saundry, University of Plymouth
Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds
Ajit Singh, University of Cambridge
Gurmail Singh, Punjab University
Yama Temouri, Aston Business School
Carole Thornley, Keele University
Philip Tomlinson, University of Bath School of Management
Michael Waterson, University of Warwick
Karel Williams, Manchester Business School
Janet Williamson, TUC
