School of Management

The purpose of the CPPE is to offer an invitation to understand and to intervene into urgent political and economic struggles internationally; to engage with the disciplines that have represented and misrepresented these struggles (which includes, amongst others, politics, economics, management, marketing and organization studies); to explore other theoretical discourses that seek to contest these narrow and excessively 'positive' disciplines; to reflect on the possibilities of philosophy for thinking about the political economy and also to critically investigate the limits of philosophy as it is currently practiced; and an invitation to consider how these engagements might articulate with each other.
The aim in the first instance is to put the academic disciplines that have represented the political economic activities of production, consumption and distribution (most immediately: management, marketing and economics) on a different heading, which means opening them to history and to the future. The collective ambition is therefore to permit these disciplines to exceed themselves and enter an expanded territory, which we designate here with the words 'philosophy and political economy'.
At the launch of the CPPE on 15 October 2003, a presentation laid out a provisional programme for the CPPE. You can download a paper version of this presentation in PDF format here.