Brexit: How Does it Look from Gibraltar?
In April 2015, in the run-up to the British general election, I predicted that, counter-intuitively, the best outcome for the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar might well be a Labour or Labour-SNP coalition government. True enough, the Conservative Party has traditionally been seen as a more resilient defender of Gibraltar’s sovereignty, whilst the Labour Party, […]
Anarchy in the UK (‘s Most Famous Fortress)
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines the first output of a new collaborative research project on the history of labour organisations in the British Empire. In an article just published in Labor History, Jo Grady, Gareth Stockey and I examine the history of anarchism in Gibraltar and its surrounding […]
Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should be organised, or on how state power should be restrained, have affected us all. Daniel Stedman Jones’s Masters of the Universe selected Hayek, alongside Milton Friedman, […]
Gibraltar’s Economic Problems and the UK’s Role in Solving Them
Dr. Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, demonstrates how the recent political disputes between the UK, Spain and the people of Gibraltar are connected to on-going economic tensions which both unite and divide them In late November, a Spanish ocean survey vessel entered Gibraltar territorial waters and navigated […]
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