Dr Nick Taylor
Queen Mary, University of London
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Nick Taylor is a Lecturer in Risk Management in Business and Society at the Queen Mary, University of London. Formerly with Goldsmiths College, he is investigating philosophical, professional and everyday assumptions about sustainable prosperity.
Nick Taylor is a political economist with research interests in ecological political economy, the history of economic thought and the history of labour market governance and the welfare state. His work is currently split between a focus on the political economy of ecological-related risk within the financial sector, on the political economy of the home and of housing, and on the political economy of work, welfare and labour markets.
He co-authored Unprecedented: How Covid-19 revealed the politics of our economy (Goldsmiths/MIT Press 2022) and has published research on comparative political economy, austerity, employment services and the benefits system in the UK, the cultural political economy of financialization, and sustainability and the financial professions.
Nick has sat on the Sustainability Research and Thought Leadership Committee for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) since 2018, working with people from across the profession to support understanding of and action on climate-related financial risk.
Nick joined Queen Mary University of London in 2024. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick, an MA in Politics and MA in International Political Economy also from Warwick, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Sussex.
Recent Publications
Davies W, Dutta S J, Taylor N and M Tazzioli 2022. Unprecedented?—How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy. Goldsmiths/MIT Press.
Taylor N and W Davies 2021. The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ community, Journal of Cultural Economy, DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1891951
Taylor N, Jones A, Hafner S and J Kitchen 2020. Finance for a future of sustainable prosperity. In: Area, May 2020. www.doi.org/10.1111/area.12631.
Taylor, N 2018. The Return of Character: Parallels Between Late-Victoria and Twenty-First Century Discourses. Sociological Research Online, 23 (2): 399-415.
Taylor, Nick 2017. A Job, Any Job: The UK Benefits System and Employment Services in an Age of Austerity. Observatoire de la Société Britannique, 19: 267-285.
Taylor, N 2014. Theorising Capitalist Diversity: the uneven and combined development of labour forms, Capital & Class, 38(1): 123-135.
Taylor, N 2013. Die ungleiche und kombinierte Entwicklung von Arbeitsformen, Peripherie, 130/131: 179-196.
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