The Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) promotes and facilitates research aimed at understanding recent transformations of capitalism and capitalist societies. The primary focus is on Europe, but CPERN is in no way restricted to just this part of the world. CPERN's purpose is to reassert the centrality of political economy perspectives and to promote critical and emancipatory scholarship. It is a hub for interdisciplinary exchange, straddling principally the disciplines of sociology, politics and economics, but also reaching out to geography, social policy and law.


Chair: Ian Bruff (University of Manchester, UK)
Vice-chair: Laura Horn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Secretary: Mònica Clua-Losada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Website: Marcel Heires (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

International advisory board:
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Dorothee Bohle (Central European University, Hungary), Jan Drahokoupil (University of Mannheim), Eva Hartmann (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Martijn Konings (University of Sydney, Australia), Magnus Ryner (Oxford Brookes University, UK), Susanne Soederberg (Queen’s University, Canada)