last updated: April 2025

Professor Jamie Morgan researches contemporary problems and their socio-economic context at Leeds Beckett University (England, UK). Recently, his interests have been revolving around political transition (Brexit, Trump), corporate tax avoidance, climate change, financialisation, artificial intelligence and social change, as well as modern forms of slavery. He also has a longstanding interest in the philosophy, methodology and pedagogy of economics.

Jamie Morgan co-edits Real World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook, and is the former coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economists. Over the last decade, Jamie Morgan has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology and international politics.

Selected Publications

Books

In reverse chronological order

Gills, B., & Morgan, J. (Eds.). (2022). Economics and climate emergency. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Fullbrook, E., & Morgan, J. (2021). Post Neo-liberal Economics. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.

Fullbrook, E., & Morgan, J. (Eds.). (2020). The Inequality Crisis. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Morgan, J. (Eds.). (2019). Realist responses to post-human society: Ex machina. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Articles

In reverse chronological order

Morgan, J. (2024). Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 301–318.

Araz, B., & Morgan, J. (2024). Ontology, complex adaptive systems and economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 44(4), 953–977.

Morgan, J. (2023). The economics of tax behavior: The absence of a reflexive ethical-economic agent. Journal of Economic Issues, 57(4), 1103–1118.

Gills, B., & Morgan, J. (2021). Economics and climate emergency. Globalizations, 18(7), 1071–1086.

Morgan, J. (2019). Will we work in twenty-first century capitalism?: A critique of the fourth industrial revolution literature. Economy and Society, 48(3), 371–398.

Morgan, J. (2019). A Realist alternative to randomised control trials: A bridge not a barrier?. The European Journal of Development Research, 31(2), 180–188.

Gills, B., & Morgan, J. (2019). Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity. Globalizations, 17(6), 885–902.

Morgan, J. (2018). Species being in the twenty-first century. Review of Political Economy, 30(3), 377–395.

Morgan, J. (2017). Piketty and the growth dilemma revisited in the context of ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 136, 169–177.

Morgan, J. (2016). The contemporary relevance of a Cambridge tradition: Economics as political economy, political economy as social theory and ethical theory. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40(2), 663–700.

Olsen, W., & Morgan, J. (2015). The entrapment of unfree labor: Theory and examples from India. Journal of Developing Societies, 31(2), 184–203.

Morgan, J. A., & Olsen, W. (2015). The absence of decent work: The continued development of forced and unfree labour in India. Global Labour Journal, 6(2), 173–188.

Morgan, J. (2015). Seeing the potential of realism in economics. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 45(2), 176–201.

Colledge, B., Morgan, J., & Tench, R. (2014). The concept(s) of trust in late modernity, the relevance of realist social theory. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 44(4), 481–503.

Book chapters

In reverse chronological order

Morgan, J. (2021). Artificial intelligence and the challenge of social care in aging societies: Who or what will ware for us in the future?. In M. Carrigan, & D. Porpora (Eds.), Post-Human futures: Human enhancement, artificial intelligence and social theory (pp. 92–116). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Morgan, J. (2019). The Left and an economy for the many not the few. In D. Scott (Ed.), Manifestos, policies and practices: An equalities agenda (pp. 94–137). London, UK: UCL Institute of Education Press.

Morgan, J. (2019). Intervention, policy and responsibility: Economics as over-engineered expertise?. In W. Dolfsma, & I. Negru (Eds.), The Ethical Formation of Economists (pp. 145–163). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Morgan, J., & Sun, W. (2017). Corporations, taxation and responsibility: Practical and onto-analytical issues for morphogenesis and eudaimonia – A posse ad esse?. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Morphogenesis and human flourishing (pp. 185–210). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Morgan, J. (2016). Critical realism as a social ontology for economics. In F. S. Lee, & B. Cronin (Eds.), Handbook of research methods and applications in heterodox economics (pp. 15–34). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Others

Morgan, J. (2021). Review of H. Buch-Hansen and P. Nielsen’s book Critical realism: Basics and beyond. Journal of Critical Realism, 20(3), 300–321.

Interviews with some critical realist major researchers: Jamie Morgan has been conducting this series of interviews published in the Journal of Critical Realism.