Greenwich Progressive Economy Research Centre (GPERC)

Project

In 2015, the fruitful collaboration between FEPS and the University of Greenwich materialised in the setting up of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC), which brings together researchers from different departments and is designed to be a support hub for disciplines such as economics, employment relations, business and management studies, politics, history, sociology, law, geography and the built environment. The overall objective is to study and analyse how power relations, institutions and social norms determine social, economic and political outcomes.

Among recent years, the GPERC carried out frontier research to identify alternative growth models for Europe and contributed to both academic and policy debate on the matter. GPERC researchers explores how to attain wage-led and investment-led growth.

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