Alastair Greig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3837916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Greig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Greig |
| SIGNATURE | GREIG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9185-8982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Policy and hope
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a set of measurable goals and targets agreed to by all United Nations (UN) member countries in 2001 or thereafter to achieve substantial socio‐economic improvement for all developing countries by 2015. The MDGs were defined by some as an ‘international super‐norm’ that made the eradication of extreme poverty a global policy and responsibility. In this article, we examine the broader historical and disc…
Devolved fiscal powers, increased competitiveness and ‘levelling up’
The UK levelling up agenda includes a commitment to devolution, but there has been little attempt to model the operation of possible accompanying regional tax powers. We use computable general equilibrium simulations to analyse the local impacts of regional tax cuts. These reduce production costs, thereby stimulating regional economic activity. But the financing of any subsequent deficit and the operation of the regional labour market determines …
Growth incentives and devolved fiscal systems
This paper explores the characteristics of a range of stylized devolved fiscal systems that have been applied, or proposed, as a means of funding the devolved Scottish government. The central aim is to identify those schemes that most effectively provide incentives for the pursuit of growth-promoting policies by the regional government. Using simulations with an intertemporal, computable general equilibrium model for Scotland, it did not prove po…
Sentiment Analysis of the BBC's Digital Content during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum Campaign
In Scotland, the UK's media's coverage of the Scottish independence Referendum 2014 remains controversial. This was probably most true of the coverage from the UK's public service broadcaster, the BBC. In fact, perceived bias in favour of the No campaign by the BBC resulted in several demonstrations against the organisation outside its Scottish headquarters. This paper presents empirical results of a word frequency analysis of BBC's reporting of …
The Boomerang Effect
In the period from 1997 to 2009 Australia experienced a severe drought, which significantly affected the Murray‐Darling Basin. The drought has broken but state governments are still in conflict over water allocations. The establishment of the Murray‐Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) in 2007 was intended to address these issues but the management of the Basin remains complicated by constitutional ambiguity. This paper addresses the question of whethe…
Appearing True in the social sciences
In early 2009 Keith Windschuttle, an Australian historian and editor of the conservative journal Quadrant, was caught out having accepted for publication a fraudulent piece of academic research, a hoax which aimed to reveal the hypocrisy of Windschuttle’s public stance on standards of scholarship. Over 10 years after the Sokal affair, the Windschuttle hoax raises in a new way the question of the relationship of social science to the problem of tr…
Somos hijos de Sandino y Bolívar
This paper provides a comparative history of radical pan-Americanism with the view to examining its potential under contemporary geo-political and socio-economic conditions. Radical pan-Americanism has manifested itself in different ways according to specific national contexts and historical circumstances. It has been inspired by local popular struggles against imperialist power and through the recognition of a shared history. In contrast, hegemo…
Using deprivation indices in regeneration
Globalization and Inequality
Challenging Global Inequality
This major introductory text written by three leading names in the field provides an accessible overview of the challenges faced in overcoming global poverty and inequality in the twenty-first century
Australian Apparel Retailing Through the Net and Over the Waves
Australian Apparel Retailing Through the Net and Over the Waves
Australian housing, technological change and the Fordist regime of accumulation
Although the concept of Fordism has been used to explain a range of phenomena in Australian post‐war political economy, there have been few attempts to assess its utility within the field of housing provision. This paper is a preliminary attempt to ‘test’ the Fordist model. It distinguishes between two uses of the concept—a narrow ‘productivist’ approach which focuses on the ‘backwardness’ of the housing industry, and a broader ‘societal’ approac…
Using deprivation indices in regeneration
Sentiment Analysis of the BBC's Digital Content during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum Campaign
In Scotland, the UK's media's coverage of the Scottish independence Referendum 2014 remains controversial. This was probably most true of the coverage from the UK's public service broadcaster, the BBC. In fact, perceived bias in favour of the No campaign by the BBC resulted in several demonstrations against the organisation outside its Scottish headquarters. This paper presents empirical results of a word frequency analysis of BBC's reporting of …
The Boomerang Effect
In the period from 1997 to 2009 Australia experienced a severe drought, which significantly affected the Murray‐Darling Basin. The drought has broken but state governments are still in conflict over water allocations. The establishment of the Murray‐Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) in 2007 was intended to address these issues but the management of the Basin remains complicated by constitutional ambiguity. This paper addresses the question of whethe…
Growth incentives and devolved fiscal systems
This paper explores the characteristics of a range of stylized devolved fiscal systems that have been applied, or proposed, as a means of funding the devolved Scottish government. The central aim is to identify those schemes that most effectively provide incentives for the pursuit of growth-promoting policies by the regional government. Using simulations with an intertemporal, computable general equilibrium model for Scotland, it did not prove po…
Somos hijos de Sandino y Bolívar
This paper provides a comparative history of radical pan-Americanism with the view to examining its potential under contemporary geo-political and socio-economic conditions. Radical pan-Americanism has manifested itself in different ways according to specific national contexts and historical circumstances. It has been inspired by local popular struggles against imperialist power and through the recognition of a shared history. In contrast, hegemo…
Australian housing, technological change and the Fordist regime of accumulation
Although the concept of Fordism has been used to explain a range of phenomena in Australian post‐war political economy, there have been few attempts to assess its utility within the field of housing provision. This paper is a preliminary attempt to ‘test’ the Fordist model. It distinguishes between two uses of the concept—a narrow ‘productivist’ approach which focuses on the ‘backwardness’ of the housing industry, and a broader ‘societal’ approac…
Australian Apparel Retailing Through the Net and Over the Waves
Australian Apparel Retailing Through the Net and Over the Waves
Globalization and Inequality
Challenging Global Inequality
This major introductory text written by three leading names in the field provides an accessible overview of the challenges faced in overcoming global poverty and inequality in the twenty-first century
Using deprivation indices in regeneration
Appearing True in the social sciences
In early 2009 Keith Windschuttle, an Australian historian and editor of the conservative journal Quadrant, was caught out having accepted for publication a fraudulent piece of academic research, a hoax which aimed to reveal the hypocrisy of Windschuttle’s public stance on standards of scholarship. Over 10 years after the Sokal affair, the Windschuttle hoax raises in a new way the question of the relationship of social science to the problem of tr…
Somos hijos de Sandino y Bolívar
This paper provides a comparative history of radical pan-Americanism with the view to examining its potential under contemporary geo-political and socio-economic conditions. Radical pan-Americanism has manifested itself in different ways according to specific national contexts and historical circumstances. It has been inspired by local popular struggles against imperialist power and through the recognition of a shared history. In contrast, hegemo…
The Boomerang Effect
In the period from 1997 to 2009 Australia experienced a severe drought, which significantly affected the Murray‐Darling Basin. The drought has broken but state governments are still in conflict over water allocations. The establishment of the Murray‐Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) in 2007 was intended to address these issues but the management of the Basin remains complicated by constitutional ambiguity. This paper addresses the question of whethe…
Sentiment Analysis of the BBC's Digital Content during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum Campaign
In Scotland, the UK's media's coverage of the Scottish independence Referendum 2014 remains controversial. This was probably most true of the coverage from the UK's public service broadcaster, the BBC. In fact, perceived bias in favour of the No campaign by the BBC resulted in several demonstrations against the organisation outside its Scottish headquarters. This paper presents empirical results of a word frequency analysis of BBC's reporting of …
Growth incentives and devolved fiscal systems
This paper explores the characteristics of a range of stylized devolved fiscal systems that have been applied, or proposed, as a means of funding the devolved Scottish government. The central aim is to identify those schemes that most effectively provide incentives for the pursuit of growth-promoting policies by the regional government. Using simulations with an intertemporal, computable general equilibrium model for Scotland, it did not prove po…
Devolved fiscal powers, increased competitiveness and ‘levelling up’
The UK levelling up agenda includes a commitment to devolution, but there has been little attempt to model the operation of possible accompanying regional tax powers. We use computable general equilibrium simulations to analyse the local impacts of regional tax cuts. These reduce production costs, thereby stimulating regional economic activity. But the financing of any subsequent deficit and the operation of the regional labour market determines …
Policy and hope
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a set of measurable goals and targets agreed to by all United Nations (UN) member countries in 2001 or thereafter to achieve substantial socio‐economic improvement for all developing countries by 2015. The MDGs were defined by some as an ‘international super‐norm’ that made the eradication of extreme poverty a global policy and responsibility. In this article, we examine the broader historical and disc…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works)