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Iain Pirie serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where he joined in July 2005 after prior appointments as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Manchester and Teaching Fellow at Lancaster. His academic foundation includes a PhD from the University of Manchester completed in April 2004.
Pirie's research centers on structural transformations in global capitalism, particularly the Fordism-to-Post-Fordism transition and its impact on state forms and social life. His Korean political economy studies examine neoliberal developmental shifts, while recent work critiques academic publishing and high-skill competitiveness strategies through classical Marxist theory, arguing that capitalism's social pathologies stem from inherent systemic laws rather than regulatory failures. Future projects include developing a Marxist political economy of Bulimia Nervosa and critiquing Neo-Listian development theory.
His 2005-2006 publications reveal consistent focus on neoliberal transitions in East Asia, analyzing how economic crises reshape regulatory regimes and state structures. These works demonstrate converging financial governance patterns across disparate national contexts like Korea and the UK, challenging incremental liberalization models by emphasizing crisis as necessary catalyst for systemic transformation.
Pirie actively contributes to academic discourse as referee for journals including American Journal of Sociology, Third World Quarterly, and New Political Economy. He convenes the 'Politics of Globalisation' module for third-year students and teaches the MA module 'Globalisation, Governance and Development', integrating his research on global economic restructuring into pedagogy.
