The MA Global Political Economy examines the world in real terms. You will work in small groups with world class experts at the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC), as well as across a number of other Goldsmiths departments, and learn how to hold the world up to scrutiny.

Study the economy through a politics lens

• The MA Global Political Economy will allow you to examine the political, sociological, and cultural underpinning of the global economy. You will gain an in-depth understanding of how the global economy is changing, what is driving ecological breakdown, global inequality, and the challenge of building a sustainable world.
• This programme takes a uniquely interdisciplinary and critical perspective. With modules the cut across academic disciplines – from heterodox economics to cultural studies – you will explore different perspectives about the relationship between global capitalism, global finance, the power of economic ideas, ecological breakdown, and the possibilities for a different future.
• You will be guided through the main scholarly conceptual debates in global political economy as well as the urgent issues of our age. This is the only political economy programme in the country with a core module on the Anthropocene –this is combined with another core module on the theory and history of global capitalism.
• In addition, you will choose from a wide variety of options from across different Goldsmiths departments to build the bespoke degree programme that best suits your interests and ambitions.

Join a community of experts in London

• You will work closely with world-renowned academic experts in small-group workshops and seminars, and join the community of academics, policy experts, journalists, and activists who speak regularly at Goldsmiths’ Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) events.

You’ll be taught by staff with international reputations for research in their disciplines and areas of specialisation, including among others:

• environmental political economy
• economic sociology
• Marxist and heterodox political economy
• financialization
• the politics of technology
• post-colonialism
• imperialism

Goldsmiths is based in New Cross, a vibrant area in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, just 10 minutes from London Bridge. This programme will also allow you to benefit from its location in a global city, home to major cultural, scientific, artistic, and political institutions, movements and NGOs that play world-leading roles in furthering political and economic knowledge, thought, and practice. You will join a series of job talks and masterclass workshops from insiders at policy Think Tanks, NGOs, and the private sector.

Careers

Political organisations relish free-thinking graduates. It's why we focus on delivering a programme rooted in a critical perspective. By the time you leave, we want you to feel transformed so that you can go forward and bring that transformation out into the world.

This MA is ideal for anyone pursuing a career in policy research, NGOs, advocacy, charities, international organisations, cultural and political activism, global media, as well as for further academic work. In the two years since the first MA Global Political Economy cohort graduated, our students have gone on to work in political risk insurance, sustainable finance, environmental and trade justice advocacy, and have won scholarships for PhD research.