Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
Georgetown Institute for
Women, Peace and Security
Contact GIWPS
Search
Diversity Equity Inclusion logo

Brexit and its Consequences

  • Citation: Pettifor, Ann. “Brexit and Its Consequences.” Globalizations 14, no. 1 (2017): 127–32.
    • Topics:
    • Country and Regional Studies
    • Keywords:
    • Brexit
    • financialization
    • Polanyi

In this brief essay, I argue that the ‘Brexit’ vote is but the latest manifestation of popular dissatisfaction with the utopian ideal of autonomous markets beyond the reach of regulatory democracy. Brexit represented the collective, if (to my mind) often misguided, efforts of those ‘left behind’ in Britain to protect themselves from the predatory nature of market fundamentalism. In a Polanyian sense, it is a form of social self-protection from self-regulating markets in money, trade and labour.

Related Resources

  • What Racism Costs Us All

    Joseph Losavio. “What Racism Costs Us All.” IMF. September 2020. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2020/09/the-economic-cost-of-racism-losavio.

    Keywords: systemic racism, economic development, wealth gap

  • The Economic Cost of Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions

    Gaëlle Ferrant and Alexandre Kolev. “The economic cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions.” OECD Development Centre. June 2016.