Stephen Barber

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Stephen Barber (born 1974) is a British political scientist / political economist, and author based at London Metropolitan University's Global Policy Institute where he is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the City of London and Political Economy programme. He has also worked in the European Research Forum. He is a specialist in British party politics, political economy and having worked in the City of London, the globalisation of financial markets. He holds a BA in government, a 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] References

• The Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University
• Stephen Barber page at the Global Policy Institute
• Liverpool Academic Press
• Stephen Barber article in Shares Magazine discussing moral hazards and the regulatory cycle