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Welcome

Welcome to michaeljacobs.org.  Here you'll find information on my current activities and some of the things I’ve done in the past.

I am principally based now at two academic centres:
the Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy at University College London and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, at both of which I am a Visiting Professor.  I am Co-Editor of The Political Quarterly.  I am also an Adviser to the climate change programme of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).

From my UCL base I’m researching and writing about various themes in social democratic and progressive political thought and through The Political Quarterly continue to observe and comment on British politics.

At the Grantham Research Institute and with CIFF I’m working on international and European climate change and economic policy and retain a close interest in energy and climate policy in the UK. 

The site includes my biographical details and a list of my writing and publications, recent and older.

I’m always grateful to receive feedback and comments, and information on interesting ideas and initiatives in my fields.  My contact details are also here.  


I post occasionally on Twitter @michaelujacobs.

Michael Jacobs


Recent writing and commentary

Tax and spending (again)
Political Quarterly blog 8 May 2013 and
LSE Politics and Policy blog 14 May 2013

Beyond the social market: rethinking capitalism and public policy
Political Quarterly  March 2013

Osborne's anti-green agenda is strangling growth 
New Statesman  12 March 2013
and Political Quarterly blog  25 March 2013

Gove is all around: exams, public services and EU competition law
  Political Quarterly blog  12 February 2013

Green social democracy
Fabian Review  Winter 2012  (reprinted by the New Statesman  18 January 2013)

Healthy tensions in the machinery of power
Letter to The Times  17 January 2013 (reprinted here)

The politics of place and the greening of Labour
In One Nation Labour - Debating the Future ed Jon Cruddas, Labour List e-book  January 2013 (and Labour List  12 November 2012)

Environmental and climate change policy: a case study in preventative action
Prevention Working Paper
New Economics Foundation
January 2013

Economie verte: mefions-nous des marchands de doute
Les Echos  4 January 2013 

Atheism, faith and promoting ethical values
Letter in The Guardian  19 December 2012

The Doha climate change talks were a start, but 2015 will be the moment of truth
Guardian  10 December 2012


A low carbon future is the one we must all fight for
Guardian  2 December 2012

Politics and the planet
Political Quarterly Commentary
December 2012  (reprinted here)

The problem at No 10 
Political Quarterly blog  21 November 2012

Less pain, more gain: the potential of carbon pricing to reduce Europe's fiscal deficits
  Grantham Research Institute Policy Paper London School of Economics
  November 2012

Obama's victory: Non-lessons for Britain
Political Quarterly blog  7 November 2012

Green growth: economic theory and political discourse
  Grantham Research Institute Working Paper London School of Economics  October 2012

The Coalition's energy policy
Guardian and Political Quarterly blog 
18 October 2012

Economic prospects
Political Quarterly blog  11 October 2012

Ed Miliband's bravura performance
Political Quarterly blog  4 October 2012

The potential role for carbon pricing in reducing European deficits
(with Hector Pollitt et al)  Global Policy
  18 September 2012

What is the state of international climate change talks?  Guardian  17 September 2012

Special advisers: part of the constitution The House Magazine  12 July 2012  (reprinted here)

Oral and written evidence given to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee Enquiry on the role of Special Advisers
29 May / 12 June 2012

Oral evidence given to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee Enquiry on 'The road to UNFCCC COP18 and beyond' 
22 May 2012

Speaking events

Capitalism, carbon and climate change
STEPS Centre Summer School keynote, University of Sussex
13 May 2013  More

Making climate diplomacy work
CDKN / E3G event
22 April 2013  More

The social market and its discontents - analysing capitalism and public policy
Political Quarterly seminar
15 April 2013  More

Why study history in the global 21st century?
History & Policy panel
20 February 2013

Green Labour and a popular environmentalism
Labour Policy Review seminar 22 January 2013  More

Climate change: science, economics, politics
Address to European Climate Foundation seminar
11 December 2012

In the thick of it: what do special advisers do - and does it make government better or worse?
UCL Constitution Unit seminar
  22 November 2012

The wisdom of prevention: the challenge of implementing environmental policy 
New Economics Foundation seminar  1 November 2012 More

The 1974-79 Labour government
Platform discussion with Dominic Sandbrook
National Theatre
  19 October 2012  More

The future of green politics
Talk and debate with Roger Scruton and Caroline Lucas 
Green House Conference
  13 October 2012  More

Ed Miliband's speech: the reaction
Fabian fringe meeting, Labour Party Conference
  2 October 2012  More

The progressive moment: the crises of capitalism and the greening of social democracy
Public lecture, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University
17 May 2012  More


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