ROSIE COLLINGTON

I am a political economist and writer, researching the state, (global) governance, and the climate crisis.

In February 2023, a book I wrote with my PhD supervisor, Mariana Mazzucato, was published by Penguin/Allen Lane. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies. Subsequent editions were published by Penguin Press, with translations set to be published by Laterza (Italy), Campus Verlag (Germany), Epikentro (Greece), Taurus (Spain), Companhia de Letras (Brazil), Heterodox (Poland), and Nieuw Amsterdam (Netherlands).

My PhD research asks: how do governments develop the ability to govern green transitions, and how do international actors contest and shape the trajectories of this ‘green state capacity’? Through this research, I have developed a particular interest in how international organisations, such as development banks, variously support and contest this ‘green state capacity’. My supervisors at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose are Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel.

Beyond my PhD research, I am also interested in the history of economic ideas, particularly as they relate to the role of the state.

First and foremost, I am a researcher, and I am committed to developing knowledge that tries to answer questions of (broadly) public interest. I also recognise that academia, both today and historically, has tended to exclude many groups of people, and so seek to engage with and write for audiences beyond the walls of our existing universities. I believe this is an important task for academics in the 21st century, and that it also benefits the research process.

Find me on Twitter @RosieCollingto and on Google Scholar here.